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Title: Segregation: "It's awkward."
Post by: Knight Templar on May 23, 2009, 02:27:43 pm
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/magazine/24prom-t.html?pagewanted=1&em

Skip to page two for KFC lulz.
Title: Re: Segregation: "It's awkward."
Post by: iamzack on May 23, 2009, 02:59:59 pm
...wow, that's insane.
Title: Re: Segregation: "It's awkward."
Post by: Flipside on May 23, 2009, 03:19:45 pm
I see we are going to have to re-write the words to 'I've never met a nice South African' to 'I've never met a nice South-Georgian' ;)
Title: Re: Segregation: "It's awkward."
Post by: StarSlayer on May 23, 2009, 06:50:03 pm
Like a little Jim Crow time capsule.
Title: Re: Segregation: "It's awkward."
Post by: Bobboau on May 23, 2009, 07:40:33 pm
Skip to page two for KFC lulz.

holy **** :lol:
Title: Re: Segregation: "It's awkward."
Post by: colecampbell666 on May 23, 2009, 07:46:01 pm
That was my daily dose of stereotype.
Title: Re: Segregation: "It's awkward."
Post by: StarSlayer on May 23, 2009, 07:55:45 pm
 :blah:  Seriously so what?  Oh my God I have Irish heritage, I need to forgo alcohol and potatoes so I don't promote stereotypes.  Guess what I like potatoes and I'll have an Irish Car Bomb screw stereotypes.
Title: Re: Segregation: "It's awkward."
Post by: colecampbell666 on May 23, 2009, 07:56:30 pm
I think I'll go catch some lobster and say "aboot" a lot.
Title: Re: Segregation: "It's awkward."
Post by: tinfoil on May 23, 2009, 09:00:39 pm
Mr. Canadian Stereotype: Let's all go have a beer and watch some hockey, eh?

tinfoil: I can't, looks like I gotta go build my summer igloo. Sorry aboot that.
Title: Re: Segregation: "It's awkward."
Post by: colecampbell666 on May 23, 2009, 09:13:49 pm
I can't stand watching sports.
Title: Re: Segregation: "It's awkward."
Post by: MP-Ryan on May 23, 2009, 10:33:26 pm
Sad, really.  The kids from both "communities" are going to grow up and enter a world where people of all cultures and ethnicities mix.  It's their parents who are missing out on an enriching part of life.  I don't feel anger so much as sadness for people so ignorant that they think skin colour actually matters.
Title: Re: Segregation: "It's awkward."
Post by: karajorma on May 24, 2009, 01:58:12 am
:blah:  Seriously so what?  Oh my God I have Irish heritage, I need to forgo alcohol and potatoes so I don't promote stereotypes.  Guess what I like potatoes and I'll have an Irish Car Bomb screw stereotypes.

I don't think the point isn't that they live up the stereotype so much as the fact that the reporter felt the need to use a sledgehammer to beat it into us that they did. :D

Pretty much every other reporter would have simply said that they interviewed the black kids and not commented on the surroundings.
Title: Re: Segregation: "It's awkward."
Post by: Bobboau on May 24, 2009, 03:20:13 am
especially in a story about racism, the guy's seance of irony is god tier.
Title: Re: Segregation: "It's awkward."
Post by: Kosh on May 24, 2009, 09:35:42 am
Sad, really.  The kids from both "communities" are going to grow up and enter a world where people of all cultures and ethnicities mix.  It's their parents who are missing out on an enriching part of life.  I don't feel anger so much as sadness for people so ignorant that they think skin colour actually matters.

From what I gathered in the article the problem isn't the kids, they seem to mix freely (elder generations be damned), the problem is the white parents.
Title: Re: Segregation: "It's awkward."
Post by: colecampbell666 on May 24, 2009, 10:16:00 am
It's their parents who are missing out on an enriching part of life.

From what I gathered in the article the problem isn't the kids, they seem to mix freely (elder generations be damned), the problem is the white parents.
Iz vhat he say.
Title: Re: Segregation: "It's awkward."
Post by: MP-Ryan on May 24, 2009, 11:46:54 am
It's their parents who are missing out on an enriching part of life.

From what I gathered in the article the problem isn't the kids, they seem to mix freely (elder generations be damned), the problem is the white parents.
Iz vhat he say.

I was waiting to see if Kosh was actually going to both read and absorb the content of my post, versus apparently agreeing with me in a correcting tone :P
Title: Re: Segregation: "It's awkward."
Post by: Kosh on May 25, 2009, 02:37:41 am
:P Now you know.
Title: Re: Segregation: "It's awkward."
Post by: Black Wolf on May 26, 2009, 02:53:19 am
Awesome. :D