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Old 12-01-2014, 05:59 AM
 
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Yeah but your family also doesn't have four decades worth of oppression from being slaves, abused slaves, separated from your families and worked to death, forced to attend subpar schools, denied access to certain stores, buses, even drinking fountains, finally getting so-called equal rights and still being denied jobs, housing, followed around stores, stereotyped unfairly and pulled over for no reason other than the color of your skin, right?
Not that simple. What they did have even prior to the Civil Rights Act was freedom of self-determination. They still had their own homeland culture, their own homeland languages--their own homeland sense of self-identity. The Chinese immigrants, for instance, were still Chinese. They knew what being Chinese was all about, despite what white American media might have tried to make it.

They were left alone to develop their businesses and communities and to develop their own internal banking systems.

None of that was the case for black Americans.
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Old 12-01-2014, 06:00 AM
 
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Who ever said Obamacare would be free? It is and always was a scheme to make health insurance available to more people. Nobody ever said insurance would be free.
Sure the Indians got to develop Casinos! That has helped their people drink more!
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Old 12-01-2014, 06:19 AM
 
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Yeah but your family also doesn't have four decades worth of oppression from being slaves, abused slaves, separated from your families and worked to death, forced to attend subpar schools, denied access to certain stores, buses, even drinking fountains, finally getting so-called equal rights and still being denied jobs, housing, followed around stores, stereotyped unfairly and pulled over for no reason other than the color of your skin, right?
Uh: the Japanese Americans DID have a lot of that kind of stuff happen to them before WW 2 in Cali AND there were the internment camps, which was bald faced racism right there. But they didn't let that crap "keep them in their place". Maybe because their kind are like Black people from Africa living in the US who DON'T let racism from anybody keep them down.
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Old 12-01-2014, 09:37 AM
 
Location: La lune et les étoiles
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Asians and Indians do great in the U.S., but they're minority. Why is that?
A lot of Asians HATE white people. But they recognize that white dominate in this society so they have their daughters marry and have children with white men in order to have access to the same power. But behind closed doors they do talk about racism and mistreatment. Asians tend to have a public face and a private face.
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Old 12-01-2014, 09:38 AM
 
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My Vietnamese neighbor is a great guy, great sense of humor. He says liberals are worse than the Viet Cong. I just about fell down laughing when he said that in his broken English.

If every immigrant were like him this would be a better country.
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Old 12-01-2014, 09:38 AM
 
Location: southern california
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they are a quiet and enduring people and many have much character.
something true of the community ---- 60 YEARS AGO.

60 years ago i would have not seen this in the black community
and today in the asian community i dont see this ever
https://tribkcpq.files.wordpress.com...on-looting.jpg
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Old 12-01-2014, 09:47 AM
 
Location: Newport Beach, California
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A lot of Asians HATE white people. But they recognize that white dominate in this society so they have their daughters marry and have children with white men in order to have access to the same power. But behind closed doors they do talk about racism and mistreatment. Asians tend to have a public face and a private face.
hmm, I have some 100% Japanese relatives look down on us because we are mixed with white blood. Some Asians really just want their kids to marry within their own races.

My brother has a thing for black girls because that is his personal taste in women. I have a thing for beautiful men. I can really care less what others do.

I don't think a lot of Asians hate white people, I think a lot of Asians love to have white people as friends to make them feel superior. (Something I just don't understand. I chose friends based on characters, not the color of their skin.)

Not all Asians are racists, but a lot of Asians (especially those who are not Americanized) are happy with the model minority status, which is kind of sad.
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Old 12-01-2014, 09:51 AM
 
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they are a quiet and enduring people and many have much character.
something true of the community ---- 60 YEARS AGO.

60 years ago i would have not seen this in the black community
and today in the asian community i dont see this ever
https://tribkcpq.files.wordpress.com...on-looting.jpg
I figured out in the 90's the impact the Asians were going to have on our society when I was doing service work (public utility) in their community. None of the adults, especially the older ones could speak a word of English. But the little ones, the 4 and 5 year olds would interpret for them and I was always amazed at the responsibility and simple politeness of these kids. Perfect English, perfect Hmong or Vietnamese at 5 years old. And their family units were bullet proof. All that is coming true. They set the bar for any educational institution they attend. Very impressive people.
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Old 12-01-2014, 10:04 AM
 
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Wait... what's the difference between a black born in Africa and the United States?
Culture.

African born blacks haven't been exposed to liberals long enough to know they aren't capable of succeeding.
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Old 12-01-2014, 10:19 AM
 
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Yet, the blacks were given their freedom to walk any where in the USA. NA were put on reservations to be watched and today they still remain plagued with problems that arise on the reservation. My grandfather was NA and claimed to be Mexican in the 1950's in Arizona, so he could get work in the fields.
I agree, it's very sad.
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