From: wung@eecom.gatech.edu (Peter Wung)
Subject: Re: Perceptions, Realities, Perceptions
Reply-To: wung@eecom.gatech.edu
Organization: School of EE, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 14:16:55 GMT

In article 23506@alice.att.com, jj@alice.att.com (jj, clueless old white boy) writes:
>|In article <1992Aug20.152519.2977@ee.gatech.edu> wung@eecom.gatech.edu writes:
>|>JJ, now you are missing my point. 
>|I think not.
>|
>|>The thing is, disgarding all this stuff about family, money, connections,
>|               ^^^^^^^^^^
>|Why disregard it?  That's my point, you ARE dismissing my point,
>|flat out. I am conceeding yours.
>|
>|>etc.  Which is difficult to do, but for the sake of 
>|>arguement we need to isolate the root of the problem. 
>|I think we disagree fundamentally on the root of the problem. 
>|Or perhaps, we disagree in that I think there are multiple roots of
>|the problem.
>|
>|>Somebody other than
>|>a white male, in this case an asian male, going into an interview with another white male will suffer for the previous experiences the interviewer has had
>|>with other asian males.  
>|Pardon me?  I think I did miss something.  Why would the interviewer experience
>|bad things from an asian male, for instance?  This interviewer has also
>|had bad experiences from lots of other things. Now, yes, the
>|interviewer is very likely to be prejudiced in addition, but that's
>|not from EXPerience, it's either from ignorance or a desire to be
>|prejudiced.  (and neither is excusable in any case)
>|And I agree with the fact that the interviewer is likely to be
>|prejudiced.
>|
>|>Now, putting all the other stuff into the mix, i.e. the family, the money, the 
>|>connections, you are still one up on me because they look at all that stuff
>|>PLUS my face and family name and all of his perceptions of people
>|>who look like me and my heritage.  I do not intend for this to be
>|>acrimonious, but it frustrates me to have to battle this out, day in and
>|>day out.
>|
>|And I don't agree that I'm significantly "one up".  I have already
>|said "a little bit", but frankly, damn little, and no comfort
>|to either of us.
>|
>|That IS my point.  We both get bad treatment from the guy, and
>|we should BOTH work to try to get both of us better treatment.
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But you are still one up on me, whether you realize it or not.
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