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 Jihadin wrote:
Everyone is racist and/or indiscriminate towards anyone regardless of what they think. They might know and then again they might not know it at all

There is a man that's seen Avenue Q!

 Frazzled wrote:

*A friend of mine went and worked in the UK for a year, and at his first job they asked him what they should call him, what his nickname was. "My friends call me Pykey", he replied, because his last name was Pyke. Having no idea what that term meant in the UK, he didn't understand the stunned silence around him.

Sorry but whats bad about that? You can PM if needed.

Do yourself a favour watch Snatch.

I have. Is a Piker calling someone one of those weird Irish gypsy families?

(Frazzled then goes: wait they're real?)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikey

 Seaward wrote:

nkelsch wrote:
The thing is, you lack an understanding of 'white privilege' and the discrimination happening.

I also lack an understanding of astrology and other fictional constructs.

Yep, all those statistics pointing out how much better off white people are as a group are just fiction, and can thus be dismissed with the wave of a hand.

 AlmightyWalrus wrote:

 Seaward wrote:

nkelsch wrote:
The thing is, you lack an understanding of 'white privilege' and the discrimination happening.

I also lack an understanding of astrology and other fictional constructs.

Yep, all those statistics pointing out how much better off white people are as a group are just fiction, and can thus be dismissed with the wave of a hand.

Are you being sarcastic or not, it's hard to tell?

 Co'tor Shas wrote:

 AlmightyWalrus wrote:

 Seaward wrote:

nkelsch wrote:
The thing is, you lack an understanding of 'white privilege' and the discrimination happening.

I also lack an understanding of astrology and other fictional constructs.

Yep, all those statistics pointing out how much better off white people are as a group are just fiction, and can thus be dismissed with the wave of a hand.

Are you being sarcastic or not, it's hard to tell?

Nah... it's simply poor statistical analysis.

 Orlanth wrote:
Ok, I see your point here, and it is very valid.
Ok is blackface synonymous with sex ed, or synonymous with porn in terms of modern classroom acceptability. Hmm. This probably comes down to YMMV, and how its taught. Also sometimes the distasteful images ought to be shown, Holocaust victims for example,

Yeah, it really depends exactly what was shown to the students, and the context in which it was placed.

Nice story. It works the other way around too.

A friend of mine's brother moved to America with his wife. They went shopping for beds, the enthusiastic salesman was introducing the couple to a particularly comfortable matress and said to the wife 'sit down on this, your fanny will soon make a dent in it.'
She blushed a bit apparently, in the UK fanny doesn't mean bottom.

I remember first time The Nanny was broadcast here. "She was out on her fanny..." I had no idea that the US had another meaning for that word.


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 Frazzled wrote:
Sorry but whats bad about that? You can PM if needed.

It would be like someone going to the US who's last name was Nig, and telling people his nickname back home was 'Nig***' and having no idea that meant something else in the US.


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 whembly wrote:
Nah... it's simply poor statistical analysis.

No, the analysis is fine. Take the incomes of all the people in an ethnic group and average it out, and observe how different it is to other ethnic groups.

Then, working on the assumption that all people are equally capable and therefore should tend to earn the same, figure out what is happening in the system to make that not the case.

Which is a question with a complex and subjective answer, made much more difficult by the noisy fringe that try to pretend that there isn't a question to be answered.

 Orlanth wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:

*A friend of mine went and worked in the UK for a year, and at his first job they asked him what they should call him, what his nickname was. "My friends call me Pykey", he replied, because his last name was Pyke. Having no idea what that term meant in the UK, he didn't understand the stunned silence around him.

Sorry but whats bad about that? You can PM if needed.

Do yourself a favour watch Snatch.

Love that show!

 sebster wrote:

It would be like someone going to the US who's last name was Nig, and telling people his nickname back home was 'Nig***' and having no idea that meant something else in the US.

Such a person would have quite a bit of trouble on the basis of his proper name alone.

As a peripheral example: I used to work with a guy whose surname was transliterated as Ng. In the world of athletics its common to refer to people by their surnames, so lots of us referred to him that way. Unfortunately the majority of people that did so pronounced his name as "nig" rather than "eng", which lead to several issues with black gym members.