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Offline Knight Templar

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Segregation: "It's awkward."
on: May 23, 2009, 02:27:43 pm
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Re: Segregation: "It's awkward."
Reply #1 on: May 23, 2009, 02:59:59 pm
...wow, that's insane.
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Re: Segregation: "It's awkward."
Reply #2 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' ;)
 

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Re: Segregation: "It's awkward."
Reply #3 on: May 23, 2009, 06:50:03 pm
Like a little Jim Crow time capsule.
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Re: Segregation: "It's awkward."
Reply #4 on: May 23, 2009, 07:40:33 pm
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Re: Segregation: "It's awkward."
Reply #5 on: May 23, 2009, 07:46:01 pm
That was my daily dose of stereotype.
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Re: Segregation: "It's awkward."
Reply #6 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.
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Re: Segregation: "It's awkward."
Reply #7 on: May 23, 2009, 07:56:30 pm
I think I'll go catch some lobster and say "aboot" a lot.
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Re: Segregation: "It's awkward."
Reply #8 on: May 23, 2009, 09:00:39 pm
Mr. Canadian Stereotype: Let's all go have a beer and watch some hockey, eh?

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Re: Segregation: "It's awkward."
Reply #9 on: May 23, 2009, 09:13:49 pm
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Re: Segregation: "It's awkward."
Reply #10 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.
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Re: Segregation: "It's awkward."
Reply #11 on: May 24, 2009, 01:58:12 am
Quote from: 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.

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.
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Re: Segregation: "It's awkward."
Reply #12 on: May 24, 2009, 03:20:13 am
especially in a story about racism, the guy's seance of irony is god tier.
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Re: Segregation: "It's awkward."
Reply #13 on: May 24, 2009, 09:35:42 am
Quote from: 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.

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.
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Re: Segregation: "It's awkward."
Reply #14 on: May 24, 2009, 10:16:00 am
Quote from: MP-Ryan on May 23, 2009, 10:33:26 pm
It's their parents who are missing out on an enriching part of life.

Quote from: Kosh on May 24, 2009, 09:35:42 am
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.
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Re: Segregation: "It's awkward."
Reply #15 on: May 24, 2009, 11:46:54 am
Quote from: colecampbell666 on May 24, 2009, 10:16:00 am
Quote from: MP-Ryan on May 23, 2009, 10:33:26 pm
It's their parents who are missing out on an enriching part of life.

Quote from: Kosh on May 24, 2009, 09:35:42 am
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
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Re: Segregation: "It's awkward."
Reply #16 on: May 25, 2009, 02:37:41 am
:P Now you know.
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Re: Segregation: "It's awkward."
Reply #17 on: May 26, 2009, 02:53:19 am
Awesome. :D
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