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Kitegirl · Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Posts: 101 Location: Lugdunum Batavorum

Remember the good ole days when they used to look at your experience and qualifications?

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Gonzo · Joined: 08 Mar 2004 Posts: 80

Yes, this attitude is for real. At least this guy {FAO?} came out and said it. He could have asked for a photo, the most common way of weeding out non-whites. And "bananas"; overseas born Chinese for that matter. No one who's been here for any length of time would be surprised at this, and the other inanities that dribble from the lips of supposedly educated people.

Dragon Lover · Joined: 14 Mar 2004 Posts: 64

This is really sad. everytime i read posts like this, I just heave a sigh and say, "Thanks God, I'm not Chinese."

I think, that's the most important thing, eh?
Shocked

been_there · Joined: 28 Oct 2003 Posts: 284 Location: 127.0.0.1

I just sent him an email that said:

jppu · Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2004 10:41 pm Post subject:

Been there, that is the funniest thing i've read in a long time. We all be luking fur dat yaller man's repons

johnslat · Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2004 10:45 pm Post subject:

Dear been_there,
Hmm, but what are you going to do when he offers you a job?
Regards,
John

been_there · Joined: 28 Oct 2003 Posts: 284 Location: 127.0.0.1

Johnslat:

I'll post it on the "Lure of the Exotic Partner" thread....

Gonzo · Joined: 08 Mar 2004 Posts: 80

Been There, that is funny.
But as I said, at least he was honest, and a tad embarrassed. Better than the beeps who mouth "equal opportunity" but who are trenchant racists.
M'kay them. Give me up front frothing at the mouth xenophobes anytime. You know where you are then.

nolefan · Joined: 14 Jan 2004 Posts: 1458 Location: on the run

senor boogie woogie · Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 6:41 am Post subject:

Hola!

3000 RMB for 60 hours a month?

If I am going to work like a ni@@er in your school, it better be for some mo' money!

Senor

Wolf · Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 1245 Location: Middle Earth

What surprises me is that he could write in English that well, but didn't know enough about the English speaking world to realize that he was sure to create a backlash.

Ger · Joined: 25 Feb 2004 Posts: 334

This thread smacks of racism in tone and content.

nolefan · Joined: 14 Jan 2004 Posts: 1458 Location: on the run

extoere · Joined: 23 Feb 2004 Posts: 543

Kitegirl: Indeed, I remember the 'good 'ol days' when they (supposedly) looked at one's qualifications and experience. Then came Affirmative Action. Then came Quotas under the guise of "goals." Then came Jesse Jackson and Industrial Shakedown, with the price of his "goals" added to the bottom line, for instance, of every Toyota made in America. Then came the Cashing-In and Selling-Out by academia. On and on, ad nauseum, so much of it buttressed by that memorable 'Bakke Versus Board of Regents' Supreme Court decision, which notably allowed a black candidate into UC-Davis Medical School who lacked proper qualifications, ahead of Bakke. This is generically relevant to our topic, as well as to other areas, such as the deficiencies of our social policies, in that Bakke, initially refused admission, now is a successful physician. While the black man given admission ahead of him to medical school, finally had his medical license removed by the State of California ---- after killing the second patient in his own office during an out-patient surgical procedure.
Maybe, as others suggest, you should not try to hold other countries to the vanity of your own overtly-radical AND racist viewpoints. Perhaps China wants to avoid some of the problems that are so demonstrable on an everyday basis in U.S. society.

whitjohn · Joined: 27 Feb 2003 Posts: 124

Gawd, someone finally had the courage to call the politically correct bull what it is! This poor bugger me thread has bothered me since it showed up because I knew anyone who stood up would get flamed or as Wolf called it "backlash". Nevertheless, extoere makes some valid points and his views should be listened to even by those who feel differently.