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Tony_Balony
Joined: 12 Apr 2007
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| you called Asians Yellow |
This is an example of friendship, there is no malice intended. Everyone getting a color label is an expample of fairness, however uniformly dumb. We dispaparage the concept while celebrating diversity. The PCer's engage in double speak as a fundamental rule.
How should we select friends in in multiracial and multicultural world? There's no answer but we are at a time when we need to get one. Unfortuately there isn't one and we've been avoiding the issue becuase it shows a flaw in the multicultural concept. The problem simply has been supressed. |
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Alyallen
Joined: 29 Mar 2004
Location: The 4th Greatest Place on Earth = Jeonju!!!
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| Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 12:57 am Post subject: |
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| you called Asians Yellow |
This is an example of friendship, there is no malice intended. Everyone getting a color label is an expample of fairness, however uniformly dumb. We dispaparage the concept while celebrating diversity. The PCer's engage in double speak as a fundamental rule.
How should we select friends in in multiracial and multicultural world? There's no answer but we are at a time when we need to get one. Unfortuately there isn't one and we've been avoiding the issue becuase it shows a flaw in the multicultural concept. The problem simply has been supressed. |
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| Gyopo girl is a racist occupier herself. The White pushed the Indians off and the Yellows came and settled the land. Thats whacked. |
Yes...I can clearly see how that statement was viewed as a example of friendship 
The rest of what you wrote was basically gibberish. You make friends who who you want to make friends with. No one has a gun to your head saying "You must be friends with this person because they are White." You are talking in circles and I think you have managed to even confuse yourself. Be friends with whoever you like, what difference does their "race" make? |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 12:59 am Post subject: |
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| you called Asians Yellow |
This is an example of friendship, there is no malice intended. Everyone getting a color label is an expample of fairness, however uniformly dumb. We dispaparage the concept while celebrating diversity. The PCer's engage in double speak as a fundamental rule.
How should we select friends in in multiracial and multicultural world? There's no answer but we are at a time when we need to get one. Unfortuately there isn't one and we've been avoiding the issue becuase it shows a flaw in the multicultural concept. The problem simply has been supressed. |
After calling Asians "yellow," you don't have much of a leg to stand on in calling others racist. You've done a great job confronting both an Asian and a black girl in this thread and calling them racist. |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 1:08 am Post subject: |
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| There's a lot of anti-Americanism here, from what I've experienced. And of course Bush-bashing, which can be esteemed as being racist. |
Americans are a race? |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 1:10 am Post subject: |
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| Rock wrote: |
| There's a lot of anti-Americanism here, from what I've experienced. And of course Bush-bashing, which can be esteemed as being racist. |
Americans are a race? |
Bush is a race? |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 1:42 am Post subject: |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| Demophobe wrote: |
| Rock wrote: |
| There's a lot of anti-Americanism here, from what I've experienced. And of course Bush-bashing, which can be esteemed as being racist. |
Americans are a race? |
Bush is a race? |
There's a race? When does it start? Who's racing? |
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Jizzo T. Clown
Joined: 27 Mar 2006
Location: at my wit's end
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| Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 1:54 am Post subject: |
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Never heard of the presidential race?
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tiger fancini
Joined: 21 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:06 am Post subject: |
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How should we select friends in in multiracial and multicultural world? There's no answer but we are at a time when we need to get one. . |
Does this mean that you have no friends? |
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Homer
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| Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:43 am Post subject: |
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| Well OP...you have your answer in this very thread...read up and enjoy. |
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Newbie
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:54 am Post subject: |
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| Homer wrote: |
| Well OP...you have your answer in this very thread...read up and enjoy. |
Indeed. Quite the can of worms I opened up. |
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Fresh Prince
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
Location: The glorious nation of Korea
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| Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 4:07 am Post subject: |
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... Most of my friends are white... |
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... Doesn't that make YOU racist? Calling Asians YELLOW. |
Is this all tongue-in-cheek or for real?
Is it OK to refer to European Americans as "White" people but not OK to refer to Asian Americans as "Yellow" people?
It's funny how it's considered racist to say someone is yellow, red, or black, but referring to someone as white is perfectly acceptable in today's society. On my university application it asked whether I was, Hispanic, African-American, or White.  |
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Alyallen
Joined: 29 Mar 2004
Location: The 4th Greatest Place on Earth = Jeonju!!!
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| Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 4:36 am Post subject: |
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| Fresh Prince wrote: |
| gyopogirlfromtexas wrote: |
... Most of my friends are white... |
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... Doesn't that make YOU racist? Calling Asians YELLOW. |
Is this all tongue-in-cheek or for real?
Is it OK to refer to European Americans as "White" people but not OK to refer to Asian Americans as "Yellow" people?
It's funny how it's considered racist to say someone is yellow, red, or black, but referring to someone as white is perfectly acceptable in today's society. On my university application it asked whether I was, Hispanic, African-American, or White. |
Well...you tell me what's wrong with being called White? What is the historical derogatory nature of the word "White"? I'm not trying to be a jackass, I'm asking a serious question.
And you're right...it is weird that White is ok....I've never given it much thought to be honest. I would assume because it's never had a negative connotation attached to it...at least not one that I am aware of.... |
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Fresh Prince
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
Location: The glorious nation of Korea
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| Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 5:36 am Post subject: |
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Well...you tell me what's wrong with being called White? What is the historical derogatory nature of the word "White"? I'm not trying to be a jackass, I'm asking a serious question. |
Personally I don't have a problem being called "white," but it's a little hypocritical to imply that someone is a racist for calling someone, "yellow," when they refer to someone as, "white." Sort of like the pot calling the Kettle ...
Aside from the fact that nobody's skin is actually white, it is a term that is used to make generalizations about a group of people that have little in common.
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| U.S. census documents, the designation white overlaps with the term Hispanic, which was introduced in the 1980 census as a category of ethnicity, separate and independent of race.[32] In cases where individuals do not self-identify, the U.S. census parameters for race give each original origin a racial value. This groups Middle Eastern Americans and North African American together with European Americans as White Americans. |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_(people)#Social_and_physical_perceptions_of_white
It's also a term that is used to make blanket generalizations across ethnic and cultural lines in popular culture. Terms like: White people can't dance, most serial killers are white people, etc., are perfectly acceptable in popular culture even though they undermine the cultural heritage of the Irish, the Turkish, the Slavic, and other ethnic groups. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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luvnpeas
Joined: 03 Aug 2006
Location: somewhere i have never travelled
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| Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 5:51 am Post subject: |
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| Tony_Balony wrote: |
| How should we select friends in in multiracial and multicultural world? There's no answer but we are at a time when we need to get one. Unfortuately there isn't one and we've been avoiding the issue becuase it shows a flaw in the multicultural concept. The problem simply has been supressed. |
I have developed a complicated method of selecting friends in this multiracial and multicultural world that I am willing to share. It's still in the preliminary stages of testing and development, but I think it may address the "flaw in the multicultural concept." Pssst....I make friends with people I like.
Maybe if you changed your name to Tony_Brain you could say something intelligent.
To the reasonable people: do you participate in threads like this because you think it's constructive or because you're bored? |
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