Multiculturalism is an enriching experience!
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I live in a very ethnically diverse community, 20% oriental, 30% hispanic, 12% black, 30% white and the rest mixed. If you go to the high school at lunch each group has their own area staked out and they tend to stick together. The concept of multiculturalism seems to have a real problem when it meets the reality of human nature.
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Any concept will have trouble in school, if you have a bunch of people whose primary figures of authority (parents) tell them otherwise. If you have a kid whose parents can't pronounce Black without an N, don't be surprised if they won't feel comfortable around blacks.
It also doesn't seem to help that a lot of schools basically enforce conformism, and "different is bad" mentalities, and then wonder why it also gets applied to people of a different colour or with a different accent. A bunch of kids get raised with the idea that different haircuts are bad, too different clothing is bad, thinking or behaving differently is bad, etc. And then they wonder why all those "different hair is bad" kids then go and pick on the redhead, or on the black kid with curly hair. Or why after teaching them that clothing that stands out is bad, they go and pick on the turkish girl whose mom makes her wear a scarf.
But unless you at least start somewhere, it'll just mean another generation raising their kids the same way.
It also doesn't seem to help that a lot of schools basically enforce conformism, and "different is bad" mentalities, and then wonder why it also gets applied to people of a different colour or with a different accent. A bunch of kids get raised with the idea that different haircuts are bad, too different clothing is bad, thinking or behaving differently is bad, etc. And then they wonder why all those "different hair is bad" kids then go and pick on the redhead, or on the black kid with curly hair. Or why after teaching them that clothing that stands out is bad, they go and pick on the turkish girl whose mom makes her wear a scarf.
But unless you at least start somewhere, it'll just mean another generation raising their kids the same way.
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But then again, that is an anecdote, and your last sentence has little bearing on reality in diverse places such as cities in the UK.
Mixed race fasted growing ethnic minority.
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I grew up in a very ethnically diverse community too. 37% white, 35% black, 19% hispanic, 6% asian, 2% other races. We devided up the lunchroom by Jocks (Football was king), Popular (and Pretty) kids, Nerdy kids, Artsy kids. granted there were also a few wannabe gangstas, and the cleti (Plural of Cletus) who were divided by race but were pretty much ignored by everyone else.
Ah but those problems are trivial when you realize that as time goes on the old guard dies and all of those wonderful DNAs mix, match, and becomes the sweet, sweet, nectar that flows through the veins of the likes of... Me... God I'm awesome.
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Or me. I happen to be even awesomer since I have these darling multiracial boobs.
Dammit! I have like 5 great comebacks but they'd all get me suspended...
ETA: To hell with it.NSFW
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Hokulele
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I'm glad you nipped them in the buds.
On a more serious note, it's my experience that multiculturalism's most vocal supporters tend to be those with the resources to be able to choose the cultural milieu in which they want to live in or, come the deluge, move to.
While they condemn those who have no choice but to put up with multiculturalism's very real problems, as 'racist'.
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True, It is only what my children (who are in the 8% mixed category) observed and we discussed over the dinner table, and confirmed when I taught at the high school. No scientific study that I am aware of. One of the things that they noted was, they being of mixed race, could sit anywhere, even among the groups not included in their racial mix.
I really do not see it as far fetched and hard to understand that high school kids choose to seek others who are similar to themselves when eating lunch. I find the assumption that these students were influenced by some racial bias on the part of their parents hard to imagine, considering the need of high school kids to find a place to fit in. That is the reality of school aged kids.
Other factors come into play when choosing a mate.
Haven't seen many of those.
What intercultural problems does your own brand of multicultural origin cause in Hawaii?
My father was a racist and a sexist. He was one of those people that would pronounce the letter "N" in the word "Black" and the letter "B" in the word "Woman" -- unless, of course, he happened to be outnumbered by blacks and/or women in his immediate vicinity.
I was 14 when I met a black person for the first time. He was none of the things that my father had told me that a black person would be. Neither were his sister or his parents. That was about the same time I began to doubt my father's overall moral integrity.
Sure, a few of the "Ethnic" types I've met have shared some qualities with the particular stereotypes of their particular ethnicity, but nowhere have I met anyone that could be said to be the archetype of that stereotype. I've learned more about humanity in general while living in the Los Angeles area than I ever did while growing up in that white-bread Michigan farmtown.
And the last time I wore a sheet over my head was when the drill instructor found a wrinkle in my bed sheet during barracks inspection ... the stupid thing made those eight-count body builders a real hassle ...
I was 14 when I met a black person for the first time. He was none of the things that my father had told me that a black person would be. Neither were his sister or his parents. That was about the same time I began to doubt my father's overall moral integrity.
Sure, a few of the "Ethnic" types I've met have shared some qualities with the particular stereotypes of their particular ethnicity, but nowhere have I met anyone that could be said to be the archetype of that stereotype. I've learned more about humanity in general while living in the Los Angeles area than I ever did while growing up in that white-bread Michigan farmtown.
And the last time I wore a sheet over my head was when the drill instructor found a wrinkle in my bed sheet during barracks inspection ... the stupid thing made those eight-count body builders a real hassle ...
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But in part 2 they send him to a different school, where he is no longer
bullied or isolated and can associate with the sort of kids he prefers. He
seems happy. It is disgusting that they have to do that, of course.
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Your loss. Of all of my direct cousins, only 3 are not some multiracial mix and only the direct siblings are the same blend, but all of them are spectacular.
Mine? None. But that may be because Hawai'i is one of the few places where there is no ethnic majority. We are all mutts or minorities out here.
Most people who lived most of their lives in ethnically diverse cities (like myself) tend, I think, to be non-politically correct (e.g., I'm not buying the "oh the Black underclass are innocent victims of white racism" after years in a half-white half-black community) but on the other hand less racist (e.g., I'm not buying the "all the Arabs secretly want to kill us" story after living for years in a half-Arab half-Jewish community). Both PC and racism are stereotypes.
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Victim of racism doesn't have to mean lynching and guys in white robes.
Even a little racism compounds over time. E.g., if you have just a 10% chance of being passed for a promotion or pay raise or denied a job for being black or a woman (which is actually almost open minded in some places), after two such events you're already 19% more likely to be left behind the white males. Because 0.9x0.9=0.81. And after four of them you're about 35% more likely to be left behind.
Even a little racism compounds over time. E.g., if you have just a 10% chance of being passed for a promotion or pay raise or denied a job for being black or a woman (which is actually almost open minded in some places), after two such events you're already 19% more likely to be left behind the white males. Because 0.9x0.9=0.81. And after four of them you're about 35% more likely to be left behind.
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Well I think the message is that he should convert to Islam. That would fit with the message of the one who started this thread. Check mate. Done. Pwned. Goodbye.
I mean the message is being sent that he isn't welcome there, and that is what people like Arcade want. We should simply either switch over to their viewpoint or leave. Because that is how Arcade does business.
I mean the message is being sent that he isn't welcome there, and that is what people like Arcade want. We should simply either switch over to their viewpoint or leave. Because that is how Arcade does business.
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So you admit to being "antistereotypical" then? People like you should be taken out and sold double glazing.
Nope. Bullying happens all the time, but what strikes me as so horrible is that someone is being bullied for being Norwegian in Norway!
If he had been bullied for being a Muslim in Norway or non-Muslim in Dubai, it would more 'understandable',
but not when you get bullied in the country which your people has lived in for thousands of years!
When a people are hated in their own country you know somethings wrong.