i think civil rights are that you can offend chinese, but not blacks. i guess it's complicated, so i'll just keep on insulting everyone.
On Feb 13, 2008 3:00 PM, Rich Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's because you are not supposed to say "chinese" -- "Asian" is the > correct term. > > Funny story: My SIL tutors freshman football players at a large > university. She is sorta "mom" to a lot of them, she has 4 boys of her > own so these guys are just extended family in a lot of ways for her. > Many of them have very little experience in social aspects (for > instance, she helps them select clothes to wear to publicity events and > such -- khakis and polo shirts are new territory for them). One of them > (a very large young African American gentleman from a small town in some > backwoods part of the state) comes to her one day all upset. He tells > her he was riding the escalator somewhere and sees this "Chinese dude" > coming the other way, so he asks him out of the blue, in passing, for > some reason never made clear, "How do you say 'ugly' in Chinese?" > > So the football player says the guy looks at him "funny" and says, "I > don't know, I'm not Chinese. How do you say 'stupid' in African?" . > The football player was upset, "He's a racist! He shouldn't be saying > things like that!" So then she, unsuccessfully, attempted to explain to > this young gentleman why the whole thing was sorta racist and offensive, > but he was not buying it. She also has to try to help them get > edumacated, but that is a whole nuther set of stories. > > --R > > Gary Hurst wrote: > > yeah, i catch hell when i say "bet that car is being driven by a chinese > > woman on a cellphone". when i am right, she still will not give me > credit > > for it :( > > > > > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
