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Why don't Asians and Indians complain about racism?
Otherwise,
Stop lumping all minority races into one group.
I think that Asians, and those from India, are just more realistic and accepting of racism and prejudices. We don't like it, but see no use in complaining about what is just basically human nature to dislike and be distrustful of races and cultures that are extremely different from their own. Instead, we prefer to quietly work to make the best of any given situation and move on.
And most Asians, myself included, aren't that sympathetic to black American issues... blacks seem locked into griping about the past, making baby mommas, lacking work ethics, and not desirous of striving to compete academically. We just don't understand why they can't evolve and move forward. This Ferguson nonsense is stupid. Just encourage more blacks to go into law enforcement so that they can police themselves, problem solved.
Funny because Asian/Asian-Americans are the most consistently racist people I deal with. Whites don't even come close.
I've heard that said too. Tho Asian racism seems to be against people darker skinned than them because "white skin color" supremacy is a thing in Asian culture too even tho many of them do have brown skin.
Being called a "cracker" doesn't offend me and I'm not sure why it should offend any white person. Unless of course I was being whipped, or lynched or something like that by a person of color.
So what? You are not required to be offended in order for a word to have a derogatory meaning. Call my friend a mick and he isn't going to care. Call me a ruskie and I won't care, but call my dad a shyster or my sister Natasha and they will care.
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Originally Posted by Bettafish
In the US, sometimes it is ok to insult Asians in public so people don't think it's a big deal.
In recent years, words like "Chinaman" have been heard from TV (but never n-word or kik*). People say "ching chong" for fun. And so on.
Otherwise,
Stop lumping all minority races into one group.
I think that Asians, and those from India, are just more realistic and accepting of racism and prejudices. We don't like it, but see no use in complaining about what is just basically human nature to dislike and be distrustful of races and cultures that are extremely different from their own. Instead, we prefer to quietly work to make the best of any given situation and move on.
And most Asians, myself included, aren't that sympathetic to black American issues... blacks seem locked into griping about the past, making baby mommas, lacking work ethics, and not desirous of striving to compete academically. We just don't understand why they can't evolve and move forward. This Ferguson nonsense is stupid. Just encourage more blacks to go into law enforcement so that they can police themselves, problem solved.
Can't evolve and move forward? Have you ever looked at trends in the black community to draw your conclusions? In comparison to where people were 50 years ago there have been tremendous strides made despite having to start from scratch when it comes to every aspect of life. You can't compare people whose entire world prior to being cut down to less than human has to try and put down roots and start over. That isn't griping. That is recognizing fact and growing from there.
As has been said time an time and time again the average black person is doing just like everyone else but there is a larger percentage than average still lagging behind. I don't know why someone would expect a group with that sort of history to simply wake up one day and have everyone be ok. You want hundreds of years of mental manipulation and societal structure to disappear in 50. It doesn't work that way. I'd love it if the changes that are happening could happen even faster but it seems to be a slow and steady change these years.
Who is doing all of this embracing? Do you know how many black people are in this country? If true black culture was about embracing the life of a gangsta there would be nothing but civil unrest, violence and crime and all out wars in everyone's neighborhood. You wouldn't have a black middle, upper or lower class filled with people who work for a living and play their role in society.
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Is this a serious post? Black majority middle and upper class neighborhoods are a real rarity in the majority of states in the US. And in white majority middle and upper class neighborhoods, there are visible numbers of Asians and Indians in those neighborhoods and almost no black families.
bolded does not prove anything.
I agree with T.
Nothing annoys more than one minority group tells another minority group how to act, how to think, how to just suck it up and get over it. We simply just don't know what others have been through.
My family (mom and dad) has lived in Newport Beach for over 40 years. Mom and Dad are FOURTH generation of American citizens. My family is like a mini United Nation and we simply don't see "race" the same way some folks do, we are mixed.
When my brother joined the Marine Corps, my parents worried about him, but they supported his individual choice and decision. Serving the country (our country) is an honorable thing. I can NEVER imagine some Asians in the church implied that my brother was a kid with no option. Their kids would never join the military and if we had a war here in the United States, they would send their precious children back to their own homelands.
Well, for one, we don't have a homeland to go back to. America is our homeland. For two, my brother was /is brilliant and he was a Force Recon Marine, he also graduated from UC Berkeley. I earned my bragging right because of my brother.
When I saw my brother's best friend Thomas for the first time, I just thought he was hot, I never thought, sheesh, he was a black guy! Who cares!!!!
I can kind of see why people say some Asians are the worst racist. What a shame. (not all Asians are racists though)
I'm curious, how often do white conservatives like you actually use words like "hood rat" in the presence of blacks in real life? Just curious...
They don't talk to black folk in real life.
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(not all Asians are racists though)
