From: underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe)
Subject: Re: What is real racism? (Re: Was:Why rish asians should vote Republican)
Organization: Miners for a Heart of Gold
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 21:07:25 GMT

In article <1992Nov11.142536.29862@sarah.albany.edu> ys3359@thor.albany.edu
(Yazmasterj) writes:
>In article <1992Nov11.060212.12389@leland.Stanford.EDU>
>underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) went on about...
>>(Again, allow me to reiterate that Mr. Wei's comments are typical of 
>>Chinese-cu people.  Don't be fooled by the pleasantries on "Chinese-cu 
>>Culture Day"
>>at your local community center; the real Chinese-cu culture bears _no_
>>resemblance that.)
>While I am also greatly disturbed by the comments concerning Blacks and the
>Democrat party, etc. expressed by Mr. Wei, a similar attack on Chinese
>culture is not IMO a good refutation of his arguments.  As long as we feel
>the need to generalize and stereotype people, prejudices will remain our
>midst.
>Please don't attack one culture or people to defend another.  

There is an important difference between my comments and Mr. Danielle
T. Wei (dtwei@acsu.buffalo.edu)'s comments.  Mr. Wei's comments directly
attack the people, specifically African-Americans.  On the other
hand, I am criticizing culture.

Culture != People.  (-ge = ethnicity (i.e. genetics), -cu = culture).

I criticize Chinese-cu culture but not Chinese-ge people.  Mr. Wei's
criticism are directly specifically at individuals with black skin;
in other words he directs his condemnation at Africans-ge.

It's true that many Chinese-cu Chinese-ge people, like Mr. Wilbur
Pan (u58402@uicvm.uic.edu) are extremely racist and insist that Chinese-cu
= Chinese-ge.  But we all know that belief is ludicrous.

Moving on, I find that Asian-Americans who identify themselves to be
American-cu are much more open-minded and much less racist than Chinese-cu
people.  Not too long ago, there was a small riot in China, protesting
the dating of African-ge men and Chinese-ge women.  The riot ended with
Chinese-cu Chinese-ge poliemen applying electrical jolts to the genitalia
of the African-ge men.  Most of the Chinese-cu said nothing; they agreed
with the "disciplinary" measures.

If that isn't racist, I don't what is.

There's another case.  It involves China Airlines.  Acoording to ABC
News and Reuter's news service, this airline (which is run by Chinese-cu
folks) has at least 2 requirements that applicants for the position
of flight attendant must meet.  They are

   (1)  The applicants must be virgins.
   (2)  The skin of the applicants must not be too dark.

In other works, people with black skin need not apply.  As for #1, I'll
just add that there were some Chinese-cu twits in s.c.a.a., s.c.c, and
s.c.t arguing _in_ _favor_ of #1.

There are a lot more examples, but I only have a limited amount of time. ...
Just note that Mr. Wei's racist comments are typical of beliefs that
Chinese-cu people hold.

(Note that I am not criticizing Asians-ge, but I am criticizing the
one Asian-cu culture.  Unlike Chinese-cu people, I do not equate culture
with genetics.)

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