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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: luckee on June 23, 2002, 04:18:54 PM
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I know alot of us are from different parts of the world..let alone different parts of the same country.
This is what I\'d liek to know. How are the race relations in your area? Black..Irish..German..Chinese..Japanese..Samoen(sp)..etc..etc.
Just curious as how things compare vs. The US..the southest US and midwest US in particular.
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Well, I\'m up in upstate New York. I happen to live in a rather homogeneous community. However, the race relations in areas around here, and the limited ones in the town I live in, are not that bad. Racism is really not an issue here.
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Racism is not really an issue in Australia. I find that Yanks are quite racist towards us though.
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Originally posted by ##RaCeR##
Racism is not really an issue in Australia. I find that Yanks are quite racist towards us though.
visiting yankees or when you visit us?
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In general. I always find that there is this supremecy sought of thing. Lack of respect esspecially.
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Living in Alaska and having 100\'s of different cultures, racism is a big issue. We have all sorts of diffirent people, which I am glad for, but others arent. Just a while ago some kids were going around Anchorage, biggest city in Alaska, shooting Alaskan natives, and filmed it. It makes me sick.
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The Capital of Nebraska...well, it\'s a dominant White Population, but there is a neighborhood in central Lincoln where it\'s prodominantly Vietnamese, but they seem to be pretty secluded as far as I can tell. Sometimes you hear some guys, oh, crack a joke at mexicans or something, which pisses me off sometimes, but outside of that, it\'s pretty clean.
See Yuz.
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Racism is pretty big over here, IMO.. (I think SD (Sverige Demokraterna - Swedish Democrats) has grown in strength somewhat (after what happened on 11th Sept, and the assasination of the racist leader in Holland), but they still dont have enough votes to enter the Parliament.)
They hold meetings (They celebrate a certain day, 30th November I think it is.. Karl (Charles) XII\'s deathday.. One of our big warrior kings (don’t know why the celebrate him, cuz IMO Gustav II Adolph was a much bigger and better warrior king))..
I knew a few racists at my school before.
All the immigrants here move to a special part of the city (almost like a ghetto?).
Its a mixed bag if you will, asians, arabs, bosnians, checz ect..
The immigrants stick together, they form groups where they stay.. Most of them dont like to mix with other Swedes..
Hmm, now I make it sound much worse than what it really is.. :)
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Why should the US "Respect" Australia?
Here in Tampa we had a "riot" several years back. Kind of scarey. It all started when a cop shot a black dude who lunged forward in his car at the cop. I was there pretty early on the scene and you could just see it develop all around. Rocks, bottles, and gun shots later I obviously got out of there, but apparently there is quite a race struggle in St. Pete.
The kid that got shot was a crack addict and had tons of arrests and such. Now he has a park named after him. How sweet....
Little Johnny, "Mommy, why is this park named after Terry Walker"
Mom, "Well son, he was a crack dealing thug who just happened to get stopped by a cop. He then tried to hit the cop with his car and the cop shot him."
Little Johnny, "Mommy, you didn\'t answer my question. Why did they name the park after him."
Mom, "I have no freaking idea."
END SCENE
God, I should write plays.
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Originally posted by Videoholic
Why should the US "Respect" Australia?
God, I should write plays.
You should respect everyone.
As for Australia, we\'re your greatest ally. Its no reason to hate.
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Go Britan. And as we all know, Britan isn\'t Autstralia...interesting...
See Yuz.
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Originally posted by ##RaCeR##
You should respect everyone.
As for Australia, we\'re your greatest ally. Its no reason to hate.
Yes..everyone deserves respect..but I thought england was our greatest ally. :)
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Originally posted by ##RaCeR##
You should respect everyone.
As for Australia, we\'re your greatest ally. Its no reason to hate.
rofl your still up on that Australia is the US best friend thing? :rolleyes: I think you can drop that by now.
and weren\'t you born in the states and just moved to Australia?
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Originally posted by luckee
Yes..everyone deserves respect..but I thought england was our greatest ally. :)
Meh, that was the point I was trying to get across, guess I did a bad job of it, meh :)
See Yuz.
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Originally posted by ROL Jamas
Meh, that was the point I was trying to get across, guess I did a bad job of it, meh :)
See Yuz.
I was lost in yer post..so I was just talking to racer :D heheh
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Hehe, yes, it\'s quite easy to get lost in my words....err...what was I talking about again? Oh yeah, Go Cubs!
See Yuz.
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I think our greatest ally is 00seven
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Originally posted by ##RaCeR##
You should respect everyone.
As for Australia, we\'re your greatest ally. Its no reason to hate.
I can respect anyone I want and I have no clue why you would ever think Australia is our greatest ally. What in the world have you done for us lately? Oh yeah, you sent over a couple cases of water to help refresh our troops.
I don\'t think there is any doubt that England is our greatest ally.
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We\'re pretty diverse here in AZ. The big 3 seem to be anglo, hispanic, and african-american, in that order. Of course there are asians around and I have neighbors who are of obvious middle eastern backgrounds.
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Well here in canada we got it all. I dont know about other cities in canada as diversity differs from city to city but in my city everything is ok except for the view of Natives.
The biggest race in our city are natives. Indians as some others might know them as. They have the worst rep in our city as low life alcoholics and im not gonna lie, a large percent of the poplulation are. But the greater of them deserve our respect. They arent getting it tho, I often find myself in the middle of making fun of them at school with my friends.....not directly tho. Its just that I have never talked or ran into a decent one, I dont wanna sound racist, even tho I am sometimes. I know decent ones exist in our city i have just never met any of them.
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I live in a mixed race town so we respect everyone. In every part of the world, we should set aside our skin color and ethnic background and just live in harmony.
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Well I use to live in San Francisco and it was fairly diversified. Then I moved to Millbrae and there was barely any black folks there. Then I moved over to Newark and now Im surrounded by Hindi and Fiji people. I guess each place varies in race and stuff. Go Figure. :rolleyes:
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Ok, I see alot of ppl just posting about what races are in their area..not really what I intended. Im curious as to how they get along in your area. Thanx to those that have :)..More info is appreciated!!
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Ok, were i live the Mexicans and white people don\'t get along that well. But Hispanics and white people get along fine most of the time. Yeah, I\'ve described the Mexicans in the Immigrant topic. They think they\'re above us white people, and for that, we don\'t like each other.
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Well I gotta agree with Kimahri as I too live in Canada. I believe that most races (and we do have alot here in Canada) are treated fairly and with respect. Natives are by far ridiculed the most for much the same reasons as stated before.
I think Canada is pretty good for different cultures being accepted and welcomed.
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I live in Ohio and I don\'t think race is a problem.
The only thing I notice is that in my high school blacks tend to remove themselves from the white groups. Like in our lunchroom there is a corner that is only blacks. While the rest is mostly whites. Racism isn\'t an issue, it\'s just how the blacks want it.
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Boston is nowhere near as bad as it was even 15 years ago. Still, me being a black male, there are some places that I hesitate to go. *cough*SOUTHIE*cough* Whether its justified or not I just don\'t feel comfortable in some parts of South and East Boston.
Boston is considered by many to be a very racist city and, to an extent, it is.
The past 3+ years I have lived off and on in Atlanta and believe it or not Boston(the hub of the typically proactive Northeast) seems a lot more racist than ATL(the hub of the historically Klan-ridden south)
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Hi, I live in the Netherlands. It used to be known as one of THE most tolerant countries of western Europe. But that ain\'t much
anymore since the government elections from a month and a half ago. At least, to the perception of other countries. So now we got this new right winged party here in our government who\'s "leader" Pim Fortuyn, got shot by an environmental activist.
Fortuyn became very popular. He wanted to stop immigrants and referred to Islamic ppl as a retarded culture. Anyway, native Dutch ppl (white) have shown their true faces now. After he got shot they voted massively for his party and now it\'s one of the three parties in the government. I live in the south of Holland and it\'s pretty mixed. Alot of Turkish ppl and ppl from Marocco live here. There\'s no serious tensions going on here, but I do notice some white ppl hating them. But the biggest mixed populations are in the west of the Netherlands. I myself, I\'m Asian in the Netherlands, adopted by Dutch native ppl when I was about 3 months old. So somehow I rarely met any serious racism towards myself. But I do think Dutch ppl shouldn\'t point fingers anymore at countries like Austria becuz of the right extremist Jorg Haider ; they loved Fortuyn themselves just as much.
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I live in NYC and we have gangs of different races. If something goes wrong we just gang up on others simply because of our race difference.
Some people don\'t get as many chance as others. let say your going to an interview, the boss see you as so and so race, he will try not to hire you if he doesn\'t like your race.
Very rarely do you see respect from the street here.:rolleyes:
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Originally posted by ##RaCeR##
Racism is not really an issue in Australia. I find that Yanks are quite racist towards us though.
Of course not....since you all put a limit on Asian immigrants (or something like that). :)
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Originally posted by lionken07
I live in NYC and we have gangs of different races. If something goes wrong we just gang up on others simply because of our race difference.
Some people don\'t get as many chance as others. let say your going to an interview, the boss see you as so and so race, he will try not to hire you if he doesn\'t like your race.
Very rarely do you see respect from the street here.:rolleyes:
I\'m from Queens, New York. There is racism here but, it\'s not a very big problem. Most people mind their business.
It\'s really how you act than where you are from.
Anyway, Queens is a very diverse borough. Chinese, Mexicans, Koreans, Columbians, Filipinos, White, Black, you name it.
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Well i live in sterling heights MI...it is near detroit. Now in dearborn which is another city close by, the majority of the city has a population of arabic people. Since 9/11 i have heard of many hostile acts toward them.
Then there are my grand-parents and their older friends. They use the n word like it was apart of everyday language. I think it is teribble but what can ya do.
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Just got back from NYC and have to say everyone there was acting a lot more polite than my previous visits. Don\'t know if it has to do with 9/11 or not but it felt good to see thousands of people of every race you could think of getting along.
In the DC area I\'m sorry to say there is racism. No big rivalries, it\'s just the races like to serperate themselves from others (esp the Asians) and there just isn\'t much interaction.
And as for US being racist towards Australia that\'s just not true. You just probably have to get used to the way Americans act Racer, we\'re very individualistic and like to mind our own business most of the time. Sometimes that can come off as arrogance. I\'d say we\'re as racist towards Aussies as much as we are towards Brits, next to none at all.
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Here in Indianapolis its not that big of a deal, everyone mixes very well, but if you go 30 miles South to were my parents live...thats another story. The whites where my parents live are pretty racist towards blacks, mexicans, and asians. Being racist has to be the dumbest thing I\'ve ever heard of.
When I lived in Miami, FL every race was all jumbled up, so there was a little bit of racism, but it wasn\'t too bad. Just some parts of town were.
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Originally posted by unfocused
Here in Indianapolis its not that big of a deal, everyone mixes very well, but if you go 30 miles South to were my parents live...thats another story. The whites where my parents live are pretty racist towards blacks, mexicans, and asians. Being racist has to be the dumbest thing I\'ve ever heard of.
I can agree with that. Indy and surrounding indy is pretty decent from what I have seen. Just south of there is quite bad.
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Here is Vegas, the races get along pretty well, although they do seperate themselves: Blacks, Whites, Mexicans and other Latinos, Asians. None of the groups are really "gangbangers" or whatever, beating up other races.