From: jpak@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Jim Pak)
Subject: Re: Keeping in mind that this is AmeriKKKa
Summary: Knock one, knock them all
Keywords: knock
Reply-To: jpak@manute.sps.mot.com
Organization: Motorola Inc.  Austin, Tx.
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 01:28:47 GMT

In article <23JUL199218205901@vxcrna.cern.ch> ikeda@vxcrna.cern.ch (IKEDA,M./EP) writes:
>Epilogue and moral of Judy's story:
>                                          Heritage of Americans
>Work with whomever you want to         -- Asian, European, African, Aboriginal
>Make friends with whomever you want to -- Asian, European, African, Aboriginal
>Have lovers with whomever you want to  -- Asian, European, African, Aboriginal
>But marry                              -- Asian,         , African, Aboriginal


OK, even if I make the **ASSUMPTION** that that is what Judy was saying (and
I'm being very generous to you here), what do people have to say about this
profile?

                                           Heritage of Americans
 Work with whomever you want to         -- Asian, European, African, Aboriginal
 Make friends with whomever you want to -- Asian, European
 Have lovers with whomever you want to  -- Asian, European
 But marry                              -- Asian, European

Look familiar to anyone?  This is the profile of a lot of Asian and Asian
American people I've met or known.  A *LOT* OF THEM.

And how about this one:

                                           Heritage of Americans
 Work with whomever you want to         -- Asian, European, African, Aboriginal
 Make friends with whomever you want to -- Asian, European, African, Aboriginal
 Have lovers with whomever you want to  --        European, African
 But marry                              --        European 

This is the profile of several European-Americans I've encountered in my
life, particularly the women.

And what about this:

                                           Heritage of Americans
 Work with whomever you want to         -- Asian, European, African, Aboriginal
 Make friends with whomever you want to -- Asian, European, African, Aboriginal
 Have lovers with whomever you want to  -- Asian, European, African, Aboriginal
 But marry                              -- Asian, European 

This is another profile of several European-Americans I've known.  This tends
to be a little more male-oriented.

And how about yet another one:
                                           Heritage of Americans
 Work with whomever you want to         -- Asian, European, African, Aboriginal
 Make friends with whomever you want to -- Asian, European
 Have lovers with whomever you want to  --        European
 But marry                              --        European 

This is also the profile of a few Asian Americans (AAs, not true Asians)
I've known.  Not a lot, but a few.  And since I don't know them all that
well now, who knows if they changed or not over the years?

There are plenty of other examples.  I can literally think up of at least
ten more off-hand, but you get the point.

><sarcasm mode off>
>
>Sorry, but I believe it is best not to take race into consideration
>when choosing your partner.

OK, then I've made it real easy for you.  Now you can knock every other
intertwined pattern I've shown above that has "missing elements" in it.
You can knock 2, 3, and 4, which I'll bet covers a surprisingly large
chunk of the people I've encountered in my life, and probably many others,
too.  Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if at least half of this newsgroup
thinks this way.  Well, are you going to do it?

What I sincerely don't understand is that I'm sure every one of us has come
across people in our every-day lives who have "missing elements" in their
own personal "chart," including and especially ourselves, and yet it seems
the bulk of the criticism I hear here is only for the very first one shown
above, the one Makoto mentioned.  In particular, few people here want to say
a word about Profiles 2, 3, and 4, and let me tell you, 2, 3, and 4 are a
heck of a lot more common in my experience than 1.  Where's the criticism
for it?  Or is it just that it's beyond criticism because it's so common,
whereas 1 is rather unusual.  Is that why?

If you're going to knock one "profile," knock them all.  If you have problems
with knocking a particular one, don't knock any.  But for heaven's sake,
BE CONSISTENT!!

I'm waiting to hear some equal-opportunity "knocking."

Jim
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