I find racism abhorrent. When I encounter a person of a different race from my own, I go to great lengths to avoid treating them badly because of their ethnic heritage. For example, the other day I met a Japanese guy and I made sure to congratulate him on his people's kickass cars.At least I think he was Japanese. Man, I hope he wasn't Korean.
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| posted by Diesel at Friday, November 17, 2006 |
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Maybe he was just good at math and you ASSUMED he was Asian.
Well did he own a convenience store?
I do the same thing! Whenever I meet a Japan guy I tell him how great their cars are, and also certain electronics. For China guy, I tell him, well, they have a lot of people! For Korea man, I tell him too that they have good cars!
Anonymouscoworker - Come to think of it, he may just have been short. And welcome! I've been enjoying your blog for a while.
G - He didn't look like he did.
Sebastien - My 7 year old son has taken to reading the labels on everything in our house, and is dismayed to find that virtually everything is made in China. The other day he was so excited to find something made in France that it almost broke my heart to tell him that the French were effete cowards who would have been wiped out long ago were it not for their wine.
Not all of the French are effete cowards. Some of them are women.
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Diesel, according to Carlos Mencia, here's what you should have said to your Asian friend:
"Hey! Congratulations on your kick-ass car! Damn shame you have no frakin' idea how to drive it."
I want a Toyota Camry. I want a katana. I want to learn karate. I want to be good at math.
I guess Japanese people have to kick ass at all this other stuff to make up for all their small...statures.
Robin - Like that chick during the Revolution with her boob hanging out, right?
Al - I can't believe you would promote a stereotype about Asians like that. You'd better hope no Asians are reading this, because they're very sensitive and know karate.
Gregory - So what do the Koreans have going for them? I guess their cars are cheaper.
Diesel, I hear you. My daughter has decided that she wants to be a world traveler, thanks mostly to the Amazing Race TV show. Where does she want to go first? China!
if his wife owned and/or worked in a nail salon, then your comment was a major faux pas.
Angela - I have a friend who just got back from Beijing. Tell your daughter to bring a gas mask.
Neva - Then I'm safe, because she works at a dry cleaners during the day and runs a sweatshop at night.
Racism is indeed abhorrent. That's why I'm so glad we live in a society that rigidly enforces color-blindness by keeping statistics on everyone's race, and examining them to be sure they report their race accurately.
We can be very thankful our government spends billions of dollars to ensure only the correct forms of discrimination exist.
After all, if they weren't spending that money on discrimination, they might be spending it somewhere they could do real harm to poor people.
Like poverty programs.
@diesel
French were effete cowards who would have been wiped out long ago were it not for their wine.
Isn't that last word missing an h? I can't tell.
-wolfe
Wolfe - I can neither confirm nor deny that I agree with everything you just said. Well, I certainly can't deny it.
who?!
Robin - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Leading_the_People
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