Originally posted by Dalaena
Lots of us eat rice three meals a day.
Yep, just about every meal...rice.

Originally posted by Dalaena

Tons of us do happen to excel at school because our parents destroy us if we don't.
If we do not destroy ourselves first...due to the shame of academic failure.

Originally posted by Dalaena

A crapload of us do happen to like things like Hello Kitty, Pokemon, and other little cutesy things you see all over Asia.
Okay, this is where I draw the line.

I think cultural stereotypes are fine, embrace them always. It's the negative stereotypes that are destructive, such that you perpetuate the notion that one race is weaker than or inferior to another by way of grouping them to a particular behavior of a few.

What struck me most about the tirade was not the racial name calling, it was more the comments about "the man" and the whole thing about oppression. In my world there's not a whole lot of exposure to minorities who actually feel that they are victims of a largely anglo populated society.

For the most part minorities in my world excel and have alot of pride in their contributions to society, so his whole rant was meaningless to me. Just babble, but sad.

My daughter asked me two years ago what the word "nigger" meant because she heard it at school, she didn't say "the n word" and she didn't feel any embarassment over asking at all. I told her that when I was in school to call a black person that would be the same thing as another person calling her a "jap", "nip" or "chink" and she goes, "what's a jap, nip or chink?"

Times sure have changed since I was in school.