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Honestly, I see nothing wrong with her request. We have people of a certain religious faith that only requests to see a doctor of the same faith. (Judaism). It happens all the time.
How is that ok? But this lady's request not?
I guess it because of HOW she requested it and the racial slur that came after that didn't help her case.
And why isn't there any "White" doctors at that clinic? Maybe she should call around beforehand.
I am not relying on sterotypes. I am basis this from my person first hand experiences with many many many people from those 2 communities in Toronto and the surrounding cities. I also NEVER said that everyone from those communties thought that this.
All I said is said on how she was speaking ( not the what she was saying) she seemed either from either Portuguese or Italian in background. I never made her the poster child for all or any people in those cultural backgrounds in Toronto. So I am not seeing why any of you are harping on this.
Conversly for AFP to suggest that no people from those 2 background would ever act or say something like this an ignorant generalizations.
This is what I actually said Quote" She's not Portuguese based on demeanor body language or culture and I've never seen a Portuguese person pull the stupid ass ignorant racist white card. You really shouldn't be making uninformed assumptions about the ethnicity of this woman." End Quote.
It's post #19 and it is different than what you are saying I said. It could happen but I've never seen it happen or heard of it happening. In addition in the part I quoted I explained based on her demeanor, body language. I feel comfortable excluding her as a first or second generation Portuguese immigrant.
My information about this not as limited as your think. I am so tired of people making the we are more family oriented comment.
Totally nonsense as far as I am concerned.
Like the rest of people living in Canada the USA live like lone wolf.
Talk about generalization lol.
Ya ya ya .. you are family orientated and the rest of the world just dumps their kids off in the bushes and hopes of the best
I think certain people in general blame their lack of personal self ambition on any and every excuse in the book.
And people that gets twisted I know many educated and profession people that are of Italian and Portuguese Canadian backgrounds so I am not directing this comment specifically at them.
I think people that use the family orientated line need to actually get a clue about other cultures too.
Being family orientated does not mean that you don't go to school, get and education, travel and expose yourself to all else the world has too off.
You assume I don't know what I am talking about, but I have been living with and working with people from those community groups in Toronto my entire life. I am sitting in Little Portugal right now!
You can be as tired as you want to it's true Canadians and white Americans are for the most part all about me! Me! me! and not about we(family).
That's fine then perhaps you should have been more clear in the post that I responded to, I didn't feel any love either.
Okay it is possible to interact with people of other cultures and only have superficial knowledge I see that all the time here in California even people that marry into the culture often times are clueless.
Honestly, I see nothing wrong with her request. We have people of a certain religious faith that only requests to see a doctor of the same faith. (Judaism). It happens all the time.
How is that ok? But this lady's request not?
I guess it because of HOW she requested it and the racial slur that came after that didn't help her case.
And why isn't there any "White" doctors at that clinic? Maybe she should call around beforehand.
Your post is ridiculous on it's face. She demanded a white doctor who didn't have brown teeth as someone who works in the medical field there is no reasonable justification to accommote such a unreasonable racist demand.
I have come across patients who insisted on being attended by doctors who spoke their mother tongues. Is she making a scene in a public place, yes. Does she deserve all that unwanted attention from ... hmm.
I feel the same about picking out Mennonites so I have no reason to disbelieve him.
Really? Mennonites come in all shapes and forms, work in all types of industry, and are completely integrated in society. What characteristics of this particular religion do Mennonites have that make them stand out?
What we are seeing more and more is that there are more men becoming nurses and health care aides.
Also historically the health care system has been more accomidating to women wanting women to to provide care ex to help change or shower them.
But realistically we are not long able to accommodate this as it is discriminatory and more and more facilities are formally saying no we can't accomidate this as it violates labour laws.
So if this is really important to someone it is there problem to find someone that meet their criteria, but from an organization's stand point it can not be formally accomidated without violating the human rights of the employees.
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Honestly, I see nothing wrong with her request. We have people of a certain religious faith that only requests to see a doctor of the same faith. (Judaism). It happens all the time.
How is that ok? But this lady's request not?
I kind of want to defend my people here. I'm Jewish. Have I had doctors who have not been Jewish? Absolutely. In fact, most of them have not been Jewish. But when I moved from Montreal to CT, or from CT to MA, and had to find a new doctor, I used Google... and picked out my doctor based on proximity to my home and, sure, the Jewish name because I wanted to feel "connected" in some way to this person, in this city of strangers.
The defending part is not that, though: It's the fact that many of my non-Jewish friends look for doctors (and attorneys and accountants and dentists and and and) that are Jewish. It's true.
I always think to myself, you can run but you can't hide! Hehehe
But it's not looks with Mennonites. It's their whole demeanour. But their last names will give it away every time.
The last names work for men, but not necessarily for women. Obviously Mennonite women may marry men who practice other religions. The same is true of Judaism - the last name is a dead giveaway. Nationality is obvious with last names as well, but suppose a last name originates in Portugal in the 1600s. The last name suggests Portugal, but it is from such a long time ago that the name no longer tells you anything about the family today.
[/b]There's nothing special about it quite a few people can pick out people of their own ethnic group and physical appearance is only part of it.
I completely agree with that, but it only really works when both parents are from the same cultural group. As soon as things are mixed up, the features are mixed up, and it's no longer obvious.
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