Toshio,
I know you are right that racism is alive and well in the USA. Bu have you
ever been to very rural areas?
As for asking about where a person's ancestors came from, I really think youAh but that's the thing. I'm not mistaken about how I feel about it.
might be mistaken on that account. We do that routinely, too. It's
interesting to find out such information in this big melting pot we call the
US.
ancestors. I ask what they eat for Christmas dinner! When I find out thatCool! So ask what I eat for Christmas dinner :-). Or better yet,
they ate what we ate as children, it gives us things in common. And aren't
we supposed to be finding commonalities and bringing people together? Oh,
we had homemade ravioli when the grandfolks and sisters (my mom and aunts)
were all alive to make it in advance. It was a big undertaking and the end
result was about 600 ravioli to be split among the family. Those are our
roots, and I don't think there is anything wrong with exchanging that
information with others.
And yes, I also find it terribly sad that the parents around here do notHah! To add to the jest: I find it terribly sad that no one teaches
teach their children "their language", which would be English. It's very
hard to correct bad habits later in life.
You say..."There's a million half-conscious ways in which the dominantYou've got the accusations mixed up. Nobody's accusing the speaker of
culture offends minority cultures without realizing it, without intending
to, and definitely not profitting from it." Maybe, just maybe, since we
don't intend to do that, don't profit from it and don't realize it, that the
minority culture is being a little too 'sensitive'??? How can you hold
something against a person if they don't know what they are doing is wrong??
(assuming their head is not in the sand purposely??)
And as for you last paragraph about being racist if one uses those
statements...hogwash! the receipient is being told that their kind will
never be as American as the speaker???? None of us are originally American,
and that's what makes it all so interesting. I know there are a few
'blueblood' types who follow their family trees back to Plymouth Rock or
Jamestown, but the majority of us Americans are a hodgepodge of foreign
ancestors.
like the term 'African-American'...as it tends to separate rather than bringThis makes me laugh because I was thinking of working into the
together. I think blacks are as American as I am.
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