From: jwtlai@jeeves.uwaterloo.ca (Jim W "GrimJim" Lai)
Subject: Re: Asian-male stereotyping, how?
Followup-To: alt.dev.null
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 03:32:45 GMT

In article <1992Dec25.014255.2173@leland.Stanford.EDU> underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes:
>In article <42859@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> mcovingt@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Maiko Covington)
>writes:
>>Ethnocentrism is every bit as bad as racism!! You keep saying that
>>you hate the Chinese cultured people for thinking their culture is
>
>No, I don't hate them.  Actually, I might pity them for being such
>jerks.

Well, I see we are not making any over-generalizations here.  Oh, well, I
suppose Mr. Joe's egotism is typical of his kind, whatever that is.  :)

>>superior, etc, but you are doing the SAME thing when you are just as
>>uniquely biased AGAINST that same culture.
>
>This assumes that all cultures have equal worth.  I don't believe so, and
>neither does a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.
>
>I do not believe that the Nazi culture is comparable in worth to, say,
>Canadian culture.

You know, the Nazi's would agree with you on that last statement.  :)

>Some cultures are better than others, if you agree on a system of ideals.
>For example, if you consider infanticide to be wrong, then clearly modern
>Western-cu culture is superior to Viking culture.  If you believe that racism
>is bad, then clearly 1992-Western-cu culture is superior to 1922-Western-cu
>culture.  To say that "all cultures have equal worth" and hence that "no
>culture is superior" suggests that cultures cannot be improved.  This 
>is a ludicrous proposition.

How about bacterial culture?  Or are you opposed to bacteria?  :)

>Note that the culture which I condemn is 1992-Chinese-cu culture but note
>that 1992-Chinese-cu culture is superior to X-Chinese-cu culture where X
>< 1992.

Hey, this is a great trend!  Maybe they'll have an "acceptable" culture
sometime in the next century on their own!  :)

>>He says: 
>>>By the way, I am very much conerned about the welfare of all children
>>>--that includes Chinese-ge children.  I see them as the future of humanity.
>>>Chinese-cu see otherwise.  Jerks.

Perhaps we have the Dark Side (TM no doubt of Lucasfilm: I wouldn't put
anything past the marketing goons) of Michael Jackson posting here in
disguise?  Maybe this is how he gets rid of all his frustration!  :)

>>family that loves them, regardless of whether that family is Chinese
>>cultured or not. 
>>>Mai-chan, undies o kite iru toki kawaii n desu ka.
>>I don't recall giving you permission to use my nickname... *if* you
>
>I've noticed that many Japanese don't seem to use the same formalities on
>USENET that they would use in real life.  Why should I deviate from this
>trend?

How trendoid.  Conform, conform, conform!  :)

>>have been to Japan you should know this assumption is offensive..
>
>Yes, of course, I know.  But since I don't discuss my personal life in public,
>I won't confirm or deny whether I've been to Japan.

Hm.  Ever hear any politicians use those statements?  In fact, do only
politicians use the term "I won't confirm or deny"?  :)  "I won't confirm
or deny that I am a human being."  :)

>>As for me in undies... well, I'm just a bunch of letters on a
>>computer screen, so I don't think you're going to find out anytime
>>soon.
>>	Maiko (rather peeved)
>
>Anshin shiro.

Qwerty dvorak.  Gesundheit too.

Hey, did I tell you about my 4-point plan for world domination?  I'm still
working on the fourth point ...  :)

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