On Nov 5, 5:06 pm, Gods & Monkeys
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hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Wow, read this featured article. It's dated April 2006, but I didn't
>> realize that blacks are now complaining even across the Pacific. It
>> seems their specialty is in crying 'racism' everywhere they go.
>> Everything just boils down to racism etc., be it in the UK, be it in
>> US, be it in Canada, and now.... China (remember the police beating?),
>> and now Hong Kong, the "East Meets West" cosmopolitan city in the
>> world?
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>> You can imagine what happens when blacks (or other vocal outgroups)
>> form a critical mass. I think this is what the Chinese mean by a
>> 'harmonious society' - a homogeneous country (or city) cannot have
>> much 'racism', just as an all-male military academy cannot have
>> 'sexism'. In economic terms, the lack of diversity - where everyone
>> speaks one language, worships one faith, and hails from the same
>> origin and shares the same ancestry - lowers the day-to-day
>> transaction costs amongst individuals. Not that a homogeneous society
>> is panacea, but you just have one less problem to worry about.
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>> Reminder: Recall this graph according to Harvard Professor Robert
>> Putnam?
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>> (Reference: Putnam, R.D. 2007. E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and
>> Community in the Twenty-first Century. The 2006 Johan Skytte Prize
>> Lecture. Scandinavian Political Studies, 30(2):137-74)
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>> Hmmmmm. Convention wisdom says that those people who don't trust
>> others ethnic or racial groups do so
>> because they're uneducated and ignorant. With increasing education and
>> with enlightened exposure to all different peoples and culture around
>> the world, you should see people bridging the gap and that, afterall,
>> 'we're all the same', correct? Seems to make some sense at first
>> glance -- afterall you fear what's unknown, right?
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>> Wrong!
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>> In reality, it may turn out that those who are most innocent and
>> naive, i.e. those who have not been 'sensitized' to outsiders, like
>> those who live in rural South Dakota, are precisely those who trust
>> other races more. Just like a child naively trusting a stranger.
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>> But as a child grows up and has increasing exposure and interactions
>> with outsiders and strangers, he becomes less naive. He becomes street
>> smart.
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>> Exposing people to different groups actually leads to an awareness of
>> differences way more than similarities. We're not the same afterall.
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>> And perhaps that's the real meaning of diversity.
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>> * * * * Featured Article * * * *
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>> HONG KONG: Is Hong Kong racist? The subject is at the centre of a
>> debate that's raging in the city, with expatriates, both black and
>> white, claiming that the Chinese are - not to put too fine a point
>> about it - racist to the core.
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>> The debate was kicked off in early April by a Kundi Gore, a "black
>> African residing in Hong Kong", who in a letter to the editor of the
>> South China Morning Post, shared details of "racial discrimination
>> (that) black Africans have to endure in their encounters with
>> institutions and ordinary folk" in Hong Kong.
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>> Gore claimed that black Africans encounter racism right from the time
>> they arrive, when they are "singled out for inspection" at the Customs
>> checkpoint. Further, he claimed, "it suffices for a black person to
>> show up at nightclubs... to discover the extent of racial prejudice."
>> Black entrants, he claimed, "are required to pay arbitrary and
>> exorbitant admission fees that do not apply to other entrants."
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>> The message of that letter evidently resonated with a few other
>> readers. Paul Kotto, another black African, wrote in to concur with
>> Gore's views, and said that the colour biases manifest in Hong Kong
>> were a "peculiarly Chinese extension of the 'black is evil'
>> metaphor..."
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>> Curiously, Gore's letter drew another response - this time from the
>> other end of the racial spectrum, from Roger Shuttleworth, a "white
>> European living in Hong Kong." Invoking the term gweilo (a Chinese
>> racial slur directed at Caucasian men, which means, "white devil"),
>> Shuttleworth said he sympathised with Gore for the treatment he had to
>> endure but said he wasn't alone.
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>> Shuttleworth's characterisation of the Chinese as racists drew a
>> gentle rebuke from Dan Waters, a fellow white European who "has
>> happily lived here for over half a century". Waters noted that in this
>> period, similar letters had appeared off and on in the newspaper, but
>> said that it was the Europeans who were to blame for their inability
>> to be sociable.
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>> Waters advised fellow-whites to make a greater effort at cultural
>> assimilation. "First, learn Cantonese and, second and most
>> importantly, you must smile. Go on, give it a whirl," he exhorted.
>> "You'll find it works."
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> Asians must absolutely shit on White hypocrisy when it comes to
> racism.
> Thanks for a good post.
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> Blacks have a enduring and most probably eternal racial anomie caused
> by slavery. This was a white-black phenomenon, Asians had NOTHING to
> do with this.
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> Most blacks understand this in that way blacks understand things. Of
> course a portion of niggerdom is simply retarded and can only
> understand things physically-spacially. All white liberals attempting
> to succor blacks relative to Asians should be immediately labeled -
> White Clowns.
Blacks against Asians are not exactly unknown, see for instance this
article from the American Enterprise Institute, archived on
newsgroups:
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.asian.american/msg/22965c33bba75b83?
And look at this one - Andrew Young is the former MAYOR of Atlanta and
helped capture the 1996 Olympics. Here's the article quotes what he
reveals about Jews, Koreans, and Arabs. Asked whether WalMart should
displace those mom-and-pop retailers, he memorably said: (
http://www.vdare.com/sailer/060820_young.htm )
"Well, I think they should; they ran the 'mom-and-pop' stores out of
my neighborhood... But you see those are the people who have been
overcharging us- selling us stale bread, and bad meat and wilted
vegetables. And they sold out and moved to Florida. I think they've
ripped off our communities enough. First it was Jews, then it was
Koreans and now it's Arabs, very few black people own these stores."
Article continues: After WWII, most of the liquor stores in Los
Angeles's black ghetto were owned by aging Jews. Then, following the
1965 Watts Riots, the Jews mostly sold out to black businessmen. When
liquor prices were deregulated in the late 1970s, reducing profit
margins, the blacks sold out to the harder-working Koreans. The
efficient but brusque and disdainful Koreans came to be hated by their
black customers, especially after a Korean lady shot a teenage black
girl in the back of the head in 1991. Thus, the 1992 South Central
riots were in sizable part a drunken black pogrom against Korean
merchants. etc etc.
It's really about whining. And when that doesn't work, smash it.
But then again, when you score 2, 3, 4 or even 5 standard deviations
below the Korean mean......maybe you need to grasp at every last
straw. (Recall -1 SD = bottom 16th percentile; mental retardation = -
2 SDs, or bottom 2.27th percentile = mental retardation = MENSA level
if it's + 2 SD; - 3 SDs = bottom 0.1 percentile, i.e. 1 in a 1000, you
figure the rest out....) International test scores demonstrate:
http://i14.tinypic.com/6czbfxl.jpg
The gap's just unbridgeable.
Economists have always wondered why a tiny spit of land like Hong Kong
or a resourceless country like South Korea can rise to prosperity in
just one generation, while Ghana and vast swathes of Africa languish
in poverty. (Others pondered the same, like Jared Diamond, in an
interview he gave in Nature)
Maybe whining doesn't always work?
