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[travelasia]

are we all suppossed to put caucasians on a pedestal?

[JimDunlop2]

[Nicedog777]

We're all in agreement that discrimination is bad, yes?

Then, that's the end of it, no? Granted, some have gotten it worse than others, but we've all had a taste of it, or we will at some point in our lives, and we can all agree it's a bad thing, to say the least. So, best thing to do, in my opinion is nullify it if we can, suffer it if we must, and do our best not to add to it.

[Akula the shark]

[travelasia]

no this is not a contest to see who has endured the worst treatment. but a white person cannot ever equate the level of racism they experience to what a normal non caucasian person goes through. its laughable if they do. ever wonder why im so cynical..its because i was treated as such and im the product of my environment...and now its funny to see the shoe on the other foot. have you been pulled of a plane..made to stand in a separate immigration line..been treated like a maid at work to someone who was less educated than mei.so why dont ethnic minorities mix up with people outside their social circle. well..in vancouver..its starts with the dreaded where are you from question...which then proceeds to questions like have you seen a building a before you came to canada or how people marvel that i could string two sentences together. vancouver is not a multicultural as it appears to be. asians tend to hang out with their own kind... im of course leaving out the white guys that marry japs girls..jap girls throw themselves at the white guys to move up the social ladder.

[PAULH]

[PAULH]

[Lister100]

Travelasia, you think you're the defining experience of all visible minorities in Canada? Did you even try to make friends with white people? In your 10 years you didn't find any decent white folk to hang out with? How is it that from a backwater small city in Ontario that I lived in for many years there were visible minorities that told me they never experienced a racist comment in their entire lives there? Maybe because they didn't put themselves on pedestals.

And how can you define white peoples experience? 87% of Canada's population lives in big cities. These cities have entire communities that are closed off visible minority groups. You don't think a white person living in these communities can exprerience prejudice as much as a visible minority in a white community?

For my money the biggest prejudice in todays Canada (in numbers affected, albeit probably not in BC) isn't racially based but linguistically based and its the long running French/English rivalry. This is white on white prujudice. You don't need to be of a different colour to experience prejudice, but you do have to be egocentric to think you're the only authority on racism. There are a lot of white Jewish people too. Are you going to tell them they don't know prejudice?

[Lister100]

Actually, I'm going to take a couple of steps back here and say I don't know your life travelasia. Maybe you had a bad run of Canada. It can happen anywhere I guess. If you were stuck around a jerky white community it would have no doubt tainted your perspective. In these situations it gets to be real easy to assume your situation is the universal truth for all people like you. But you're away from it now and its high time to let the healing process begin. Don't become what you hated, take the higher road and become something better.

[travelasia]

yes you are right..i shouldnt become what i hate.. guess there is some truth to the old saying.."we become what we fight" . japan is a new chapter for me..and im treated better here.

[Gordon]

[SEndrigo]

[travelasia]

im not delusional..thats just my opinion and having lived in the 2 countries..im merely stating my experiences. i do know japanese history..im not that dumb. i did have an asian family member who worked with the japanese when the MOD EDIT took control over asia during ww2. and must say..again from my own experience..that the family was treated better. i will leave it at that. also, asia does not merely consist of chinese and koreans..

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[PAULH]

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