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Re: The Problem Runs Deeper Than Details (Score: 1)
by DjTj on Monday, April 19 @ 19:48:30 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | Irish immigrants used to stick out because of their red hair. Italians had dark hair and darker complexions. 100 years ago Anglo-Saxons had no problem picking out the immigrants in a crowd and discriminating against them.
The question is, why don't people notice Italians, Irish, and Jews anymore? I can think of 3 reasons:
(1) Intermarriage - well, we're clearly making progress in that area
(2) Economic progress - Asians are also ahead of the curve on that
(3) Appearance of other minorities - the arrival of blacks in northern cities and of latinos and asians after that displaced a lot of the racism against irish and italian immigrants. Are we going to have to wait for another group to pass the buck to? |
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Re: The Problem Runs Deeper Than Details (Score: 1)
by dkaykes on Sunday, April 25 @ 12:29:18 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | I agree that we will always stand out in a crowd. But why not use that to the advantage? I too, get tired of being asked if I know karate, or if I eat a lot of rice, and the SARS jokes are really played out. But finding humor in it all is the best way to deal because the stereotypes are not going to go away. Once one is extinguished, another one will pop up. Trying to prove each and every one wrong is defeatist.
I have seen the young Asian girl with the blond-dyed straw-like hair and think to myself, what a shame. I've even heard my beautiful 8 year old neice say she wished she had blond hair and if only I could make her understand how 99% of the population would give a limb to have hair that even resembled hers.
It all boils down to taking pride in who you are and where you came from.
Every person in this country is an immigrant whether they want to admit it or not (except the few whose ancestors were all Native Americans). This is a subject that is so sugar-coated in school books it makes me sick. So many are never taught the truth unless they are lucky enough to learn it in college or are industrious enough to learn it on their own. |
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Re: The Problem Runs Deeper Than Details (Score: 1)
by windnfire on Wednesday, June 16 @ 05:23:06 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Come to think of it, even though we asians are still treated as foreigners in the land of the americans, if you've read your ancient history onwards, every race came from asia, which is the start of civilization. And that's reality. So, where did you think the american blood came from? |
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