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I do look at the individual, but I also find it fun to poke fun at stereotypes. I believe that you are good at math, but I am questioning the good driver thing. people from india rank only above 75 year old korean women in the stereotypically bad drivers field.
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Originally Posted by stan4
Hey, I had watermelon this weekend, too!
I still think it goes back to the whole "look at me and see me as an individual and not as a member of a 'race.'" Which I think is fair. I'm of Indian heritage, and I am good at school/math, but I am also a good athlete and I drive well.
I do look at the individual, but I also find it fun to poke fun at stereotypes. I believe that you are good at math, but I am questioning the good driver thing. people from india rank only above 75 year old korean women in the stereotypically bad drivers field.
LOL! Well, I don't own a Camry or an Accord, so that's dashed right there. I guess I'm just one of those weird women who has loved driving ever since childhood - it's almost religious or sexual to me. I enjoy high HP, fuel-inefficient, G-force inducing, curve hugging performance vehicles...therefore, none of my cars is Japanese!
I also wear deoderant and buy expensive toilet paper.
i think that the biggest problem that i have seen with this issue is that so many people don't understand where the line is. we can't (happily) live in a society where we just don't talk about race or religion or politics or other potentially rocky topics, merely because we might offend someone.
but we also can't live comfortably and happily in a society where those identity issues are used exclusively to determine our worth and merit.
ok, when i say 'we', i am talking about me. but i doubt i'm alone, so i'm gonna stick with it.
anyway, there are a couple (maybe more) of morons out there that can't seem to keep their prejudiced, hateful mouths shut. then there are some paranoid, over sensitive types that can't seem to see an innocent, acceptable statement as anything but offensive. then, to top it off, there are those that thinkt hat the answer to merely squelch anything that might make us different.
remember michael in that episode of the office where he states that he doesn't see color? typical homogenized, mass-produced, crap.
i want to be proud of my heritage. i want to be known for my political and religious views. i want people to be aware of the things that define me as an individual, and that can't happen if we censor and sterilize every aspect of society and COmmunity that exists, simply to keep people from being offended.
it's about becoming educated and thoughtful. it's not about becoming politically correct.
I am Sicilian/Italian and I come from a town with a high guinea wop/greaseball/guido/deigo/goomba population. I can't stand... almost hate... the stereotypical wops around here with the gelled blow-out hair cuts, expensive preppy clothing sometimes with ITALIA written on it, the ricer cars, bumping bass, going to the clubs drinking heinkens... etc. I just wear what is comfortable and cheap, cut my hair short because, again I am a guido with thick, dense hair that is very hard to manage when long, and I hate clubs... you can barely get me to a bar! The one stereo-typical italian thing I do is drive a big shiny Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham and I make myself look like a mobster sometimes... just for laughs though! Stereo-typing is a blast!
I have my heritage...... but I was born and raised in the USA. I consider myself all American and would not want it any other way.
those arent racist comments. they are prejudiced and ignorant.
people do throw the R word around a lot. i even got accused of being a racist because i used the word coon, instead of raccoon. the posters i referenced happened to be black. and because of that i was a racist. pretty soon i wont even be able to say cracker without people thinking im referring to white people. its ridiculous. people dont know the difference betwen racism, actual de jure and de facto lived racism and sterotypes and prejudice. lots to learn.
but prejudiced comments are almost always ignorant and have no basis. racism is manifested more in limiting personal or collective rights. by saying black people like watermelon, you are not limiting anyones rights. you are just showing how silly and ignorant you are.
making a comment about an event in history and stereotyping someone is "racist." not to me.
Uhm....OK. Got it.
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