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I don't care for Indians, they always look dirty to me...

Edited, Jan 2nd 2007 7:46pm by Hellboy

Can school children still have a favorite color?

Blue. I mean Green. aaaaaggghhhh!

Black licorice candy is nasty. Red licorice candy is disgusting.

That's a typical whitey rant

Personally, I believe that if you don't say the slurs in a way that's supposed to hurt somebody it's not racism. Although i'm sure there's plenty of people who disagree with me.

I'll say "*****" myself every once in a while joking but anyone who takes offense to that needs to chill out.

But.. most of the stuff you described is going too far imo, even if they are just joking stuff like that can easily offend anybody and not just 1 certain type of persons.

Living in an Arab Muslim country, I see it, hear it, feel it, sense it around me all the time, targetting Arabs and Muslims.

Might sound absurd at first, but I live in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, where a huge British/American/European community resides. I'm usually quick to hammer a person flat, if anyone displays that attitude towards me, which does get me in a lot of trouble.

What I can't get over though, is the notion that some of these people, belonging to the groups mentioned above, can't hide their racism despite the fact that they live and benefit off an Arab Muslim country....

You'd think they'd retain that stripe of bias to when they're back home. The arrogance just kills me. A lot of people still behave with a variation of the Imperial/Colonial mindset that has long been thought extinct.

I can understand how it can be a "joking" remark in some cases, when it pertains to Blacks, Hispanics, Jews ...etc. But when it comes to Arabs and Muslims, it is correctly perceived as a discourse of power, where is Islam is viewed as some sort of a reactionary adversary that must be crushed and humiliated.

Edited, Jan 3rd 2007 4:39am by GregoryTheWatcher

I can still laugh at this though right, since gays arent a race?

It's called jealousy mixed with envy mixed with latent homosexual attraction.


and why don't you GAG ON MY HUGE WHITE **** ?!





Edited, Jan 2nd 2007 9:48pm by Kelvyquayo

SO ANGRY.

Speaking of latent: all this talk of rasicm and then your comment on latent homosexual attraction and then a reference to your WHITE ****? I don't know, Kelvy. Why do you have to point out it's white? Can't you just pretend to have a huge **** as opposed to a huge white one? Are you reassuring yourself (and if you are is it to reassure yourself you are white or to reassure yourself you have a ****) or do have some latent homophobic feelings yourself? You don't look at boys once in awhile and get that feeling do you? You know the one, the one heteros feel for teh wemenz? Are you sure? You appear to want me to give you happy endings. I tell you Kelvy I read frustrated, unhappy, unexplored homoerotic angst just sprayed like a pearl necklace all over your post. You may want to look into that, or just let go and explore those feelings. Varass never dared and look where he's at.

at least you ....sensed all of the deeply embedded and craftily woven sarcastic juxtaposition in that brief statement...and maybe for a moment the glimmering shine in the spittle dangling from your chin as you attempted to find a retort may have been mistaken for a glimmer of reason and understanding...perhaps even as you unwittingly walked right passed the point while to cleverly noticing the windows you so miserably failed to see behind the glass..

unfortunatly sources(your comment) tell me that it still merits a huge
WHOOSHHH!

It's socially acceptable to be racist against Asians no matter what race you are.

Unless you're white. You are not allowed to crack ethnic jokes about anyone ever.

Racist jokes about people of African heritage are the most evil thing you could ever do. Unless your black.

The free pass to be racist about Arabic people is fading. Get in a few more until they blow up a bunch of innocent people again and renew the pass.

If your Hispanic you have a free pass to be racist about everyone!

All can all be learned by watching Comedy Central.

You should always get very mad when anyone makes a racial slur. That way you can show you are not harboring any misconceptions based on ethnicity. You are the superior person who judges everything in the universe with a clean slate.

Until you get carjacked.

***** races. There should be no different 'race'(s), because we're all human beings. Humans shouldn't evaluate individuals based on the color or heritage of another. Rather, instead they should be judged by the hardships and strife they put themselves through to obtain a better life.

Edited, Jan 3rd 2007 3:25am by Sorcath

Yes.



Based on the assumption that Arabs are in general either wild-eyed suicide bombers, or rich Shiekhs, it seems crazy of course. But since the assumption is false, it becomes an alarming reality, and with a logic.



There is no fear of whites, specially considering that many Arabs -although not Nordic or Anglo-Saxon...etc- are Caucasian themselves.

You have to understand that Dubai is a booming city, where although Oil reserves are substantial, almost 90% of the city/Emirate's income comes from other industries and sectors, and not Oil. It is pretty impressive, and shatters most people's stereotypes as soon as they view the architecture, size, panache, sophistication, and luxuries provided.

Therein lays the problem. Being a 0% tax country (like most Arab countries, income tax is unheard of), enjoying a high per-capita GDP, a lot of Americans/Europeans come to work and live for years.

Now although these "expatriates" are on working visas, and not immigrants, it is very important for them to retain their identity, customs, mindset and ideas they came with. As a result, they cluster in packs, they avoid mingling with the locals as much as they can, they have their own publications, own shows, own leisure spots where I -as an Arab- would be frowned upon entering.

It's a quasi-state, and if you're familiar with the colonial and imperial mindset of the European Empires of the 19/18th century, you'd see how these people recreated, and readopted that mindset.

The government's opinion seems to be that as long as these people add a "modern" facade to the place, and attract more western capital and tourism, then they're free to do what they want. At the end of the day, they're spending their hard-earned money in the city, and the locals are reaping the benefits.

It's a very pragmatic approach, but it makes me cringe.

Let's not forget that these people remain to be citizens of powerful nations. If I -for example- bash an American's jaw for insulting me, and the police do anything less of incarcerating -only- me, and forcing me to apologize to that fellow, then he might be on CNN the next day, the US ambassador will make himself heard, and that's all bad publicity for a commerce centre like Dubai. Europeans/Americans need to feel perfectly at ease to practice whatever they're used to (including racism and bias, which ironically seem to be the core beliefs of some of them), so it would be viewed as a "western-friendly" place.

Like Totem put it

Seems to be the prevailing view. Why? Because it's hard for anyone to admit, after decades of propaganda and stereotypes, that Arabs can actually build a modern city/country, so viewing it as the world's "landfill" eases the dilemma.

Edit:-

Let me add that this "community" is suffering a problem now. The more expatriates pour in, the harder it has become to keep this "cocoon" intact. That is especially true when it comes to children and teenagers. They go out with Arab/Muslim guys/girls, they see for themselves what the locals are all about, and provided the rebellious nature of that age group, they are skeptical of their parents' ractionary view.

I experienced this first-hand in 1992 when I was in an American school in Doha, Qatar, and this girl from Louisiana had a crush on me (mutual crush really), but was confronted with the school administration (hired by the US embassy), her parents, her friends, all scolding/boycotting her for going out with me once. I only found this out last year when I got in touch with her again via the internet.

I was also suspended from that school for a week, for making "remarks irrelevant to the curriculum", which basically consisted of me merely pointing out a few words in English that originated from Arabic. They wouldn't allow the American kids to develop any form of affinity to the Arab/Islamic culture, or even recognize any form of historical achievement, because it is at odds with the prevailing view in the US.

In 2007, the issue is loosening out, but is still bleak.

Edited, Jan 3rd 2007 2:08pm by GregoryTheWatcher