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fearus
China2164 Posts
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thedeadhaji
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LosingID8
CA10832 Posts
this was largely in part due to lafcadio hearn who was perhaps the first person to interpret japanese culture to the US/europe. unfortunately as he was doing this he commonly portrayed japan as a remote, inaccessible and strange culture. also same with hegel, who stated that the "orient is static" and without history, whereas progress is identified with western tradition. in other words he was saying that the orient is inferior to the west. | ||
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Mastermind
Canada7096 Posts
On December 12 2008 13:34 Durak wrote: Not here. There are the first nations and the aboriginals but no one is called indian. We say east indian to refer to the people from india. Maybe one day we can call the people from india, indian. many people in Canada still use the turn indian to refer to aboriginals. Where I live native is the most common term, followed by indian. And I grew up in a place where there is a lot of natives. In public you will only hear aboriginal or first nations because people are fake in public. Oh, and if anyone is brown, and they are offended at being called brown, then they are really insecure. You are what you are. To be offended by that is ridiculous. | ||
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ZERG_RUSSIAN
10417 Posts
http://www.alllooksame.com/ | ||
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TheTyranid
Russian Federation4333 Posts
Saying black or white is not racist or offensive, why should yellow be? | ||
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IzzyCraft
United States4487 Posts
So frankly Yellow just isn't as common and the other words to substitute in it still have a nasty stigma attached to them. Frankly i don't get why people just don't call them selfs by the country they belong to. I've always found it crude to ask what are you meaning what is your blood. I'm much more interested in how they live who they identify with. Frankly Ethnic group is more much important then race. Race is such a crude concept saying that vanity is the most important thing to you over the mind of the person how they act and think is irrelevant. Race is only important in medical terms where it's a classification to help common diseases and affinities people developed over the course of evolution which cannot be erased though a few generations such as how most of the world are lactose intolerant to some degree except the heavily milk drinking people of north east Europe who carry the gene to properly digest the lactose. | ||
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haduken
Australia8267 Posts
There is no logic behind this, only the historic context and interpretation of specific groups in question. I'm Asian but I'd rather be called Chinese if i need to be referred by any label. I would be rather offended if some one calls me a Korean or Japanese and and meant for it to be some sort of compliment. | ||
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ParasitJonte
Sweden1768 Posts
On December 12 2008 08:59 H_ wrote: that's not really the same thing as telling the difference between someone from Thailand and someone from, say, Japan Yes it is. The only thai people who you might mistake for japanese are the ones who appear in dramas on TV (because they are quite pale and look nothing like the ones you see on the streets). And even then it's easy to tell the difference. I should know, I visited both countries this past summer. | ||
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ParasitJonte
Sweden1768 Posts
On December 12 2008 17:50 ZERG_RUSSIAN wrote: I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet. http://www.alllooksame.com/ I did the face exam and got 9 correct, lol. It said I was OK and "normal". But I really don't think most of those faces were representative. Though some were really easy. | ||
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AttackZerg
United States7578 Posts
I have never seen a yellow person, only babys with jaundice are yellow ... | ||
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ZhenMiChan
Netherlands1181 Posts
Hope this helps. | ||
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haduken
Australia8267 Posts
That or they are the rich ones who can afford vast amount of UV protection and sun creams. | ||
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ZERG_RUSSIAN
10417 Posts
On December 12 2008 18:06 TheTyranid wrote: Stupid thread. Saying black or white is not racist or offensive, why should yellow be? Maybe because our skin color isn't yellow? | ||
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TheTyranid
Russian Federation4333 Posts
On December 12 2008 21:51 ZERG_RUSSIAN wrote: Maybe because our skin color isn't yellow? What do you mean by "our"  | ||
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Dagor
Germany64 Posts
I am not sure but i think that Marco Polo introduced the term, i may be wrong though. | ||
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HnR)hT
United States3468 Posts
He's probably not Russian. I think his nickname is a reflection of Western ignorance/propaganda about the Great Patriotic War. | ||
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TehKris
Norway322 Posts
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pyrogenetix
China5098 Posts
personally i cant understand why the word "nigger" is still so negative. maybe because im chinese i cant understand it but if they call each other nigger and use the word a lot in music, why do they get so upset when others call them that -with no offense meant.- it's like they're just waiting for you to say something borderline racist then pounce on you just for the heck of it. it's getting old and no one really means it in the KKK way. so no even if someone called me chink or gook i wouldn't say anything if i can see that the lovely old lady simply doesnt know that im chinese and isnt aware that those words are negatively charged, i dont make a big fuss about it. likewise someone could be spot on and call me mainland chinese but from the way they said it i can tell they're not being nice, then yea i would get annoyed. | ||
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QuanticHawk
United States32149 Posts
Yeah man, let's take back NIGGER!! Along with porch monkey. My grandmother used to call me that all the time, what's wrong with that?? | ||
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