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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
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I fully expect daily demonstrations outside the British Embassy from now on, Because all British people are vermin.
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I dunno. There was a Korean woman attacked and left comatose in Vancouver a couple of years back. The culprit was caught, tried, and convicted. So far as I am aware, it didn't lead to any anti-Canadian protests over here. |
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Gord
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 5:32 pm Post subject: |
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| rapier wrote: |
| they cannot, or will not, think logically or sensibly. |
Why reduce a serious subject by using petty racism? |
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lush72
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: I am Penalty Kick!
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| Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Gord wrote: |
| rapier wrote: |
| they cannot, or will not, think logically or sensibly. |
Why reduce a serious subject by using petty racism? |
Why do you care? |
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Gord
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 7:02 pm Post subject: |
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| lush72 wrote: |
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I care because racism is uncool. |
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Hyalucent
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: British North America
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| Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 7:44 pm Post subject: |
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| On the other hand wrote: |
I dunno. There was a Korean woman attacked and left comatose in Vancouver a couple of years back. The culprit was caught, tried, and convicted. So far as I am aware, it didn't lead to any anti-Canadian protests over here. |
No protests, but it did make a splash. I heard about it from quite a few places and it made national TV news. The incident looked random but the "racism" argument was automatically being applied.
Now the funny thing was about two months ago. A younger Korean man killed a Korean landlady in Vancouver, after responding to a 'room for rent' sign. The news coverage here (Canada) seemed to go out of their way when they reported that "racism was not believed to be a factor". The fact that it was Korean on Korean violence made such a statement sound odd to hear.
It turned out that the Korean man didn't speak English-- only Korean. One could argue that the landlady's ethnicity was a directly contributing factor to her selection as a victim. Would this count as racism? |
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PEIGUY
Joined: 28 Mar 2004
Location: Omokgyo
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| Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 7:56 pm Post subject: |
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is violence common amongst asians? you don't seem to hear a lot about it in the news anyways. LIving on the East Coast you don't get much violence really, just drunken bar fights  and usually get more Japenese people.. |
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Universalis
Joined: 17 Nov 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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| PEIGUY wrote: |
| is violence common amongst asians? you don't seem to hear a lot about it in the news anyways. LIving on the East Coast you don't get much violence really, just drunken bar fights and usually get more Japenese people.. |
I think a lot of Korean-Americans tend to live in their own little Kor-Am community, so when there is some crime with a Korean victim, it often is the case that the perp is Korean as well.
A few years ago in Texas, I think, there was a multiple homicide/suicide case... all Koreans.
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diver
Joined: 16 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 1:07 am Post subject: |
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| Gord wrote: |
| I care because racism is uncool. |
Is the truth uncool too? |
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diver
Joined: 16 Jun 2003
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| hyalucent wrote: |
| It turned out that the Korean man didn't speak English-- only Korean. One could argue that the landlady's ethnicity was a directly contributing factor to her selection as a victim. Would this count as racism? |
Hyalucent,
These days not liking kimchi is a form of racism. |
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