Cartman
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"So am I a racist or am I all for black power?"
Neither. You just believe in affirmative action. B)
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Chinese Canadian, or 75% Commie Bastard.
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quote:Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: And did anyone notice that the place where you plug the slave in is at the back of the bus?
Mark
It depends. If you have two drives connected via Cable Select, then the drive at the end of the cable becomes the master, and the drive in the middle becomes the slave. Otherwise, if you explicitly label them as master and slave (like I do, dammit I'm a racist), then you can put them anywhere on the IDE bus.
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PsyLiam: Perhaps I should have asked what it said instead of Can you read this for me ... but wouldn't that be suggesting that she's an idiot because I have to make sure I say things 'just-so' to ensure she understands my TRUE meaning?!
I hate speaking in euphomisms! Waste of breath, time and energy!
and YES.. .Language police in Quebec is absolutely rediculous. Only in Quebec can you get a fine for not having a sign with big enough french words in it! God forbid there's any english speaking people in Quebec.. if there is... slap a $150 fine on them and pay our women to stay pregnant with the profits!!!
quote:and YES.. .Language police in Quebec is absolutely rediculous. Only in Quebec can you get a fine for not having a sign with big enough french words in it! God forbid there's any english speaking people in Quebec.. if there is... slap a $150 fine on them and pay our women to stay pregnant with the profits!!!
Oooh to be Canadian!
Shouldn't you be posting in French first with a font 2x as big as the English post? Don't make me call the language police.
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quote:I think I'm going to relabel my hard drives. Instead of "slave" I will put a sticker "filthy Nigger-scum" there, and "master" will become "Arian"...
Now who's overreacting?
quote:Perhaps I should have asked what it said instead of Can you read this for me ... but wouldn't that be suggesting that she's an idiot because I have to make sure I say things 'just-so' to ensure she understands my TRUE meaning?!
Think of it this way. When you see a phrase written in German, would you ask a random white person what it says? Yes, she did overreact by insinuating you're a racist, though I think she was reacting to racial ignorance rather than racism. People do quite commonly assume Asian people are all Chinese, though as a Chinese person myself I don't really have a reason to complain. Besides, I think if people assume something about me from my appearance it is more effective to politely point out their mistake rather than call them racist.
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So would most people. Even the Scottish, but that's because they are always angry.
"Perhaps I should have asked what it said instead of Can you read this for me"
Er, no, that's the same thing. You are still assuming that she can read it because she looks Asian. And considering the number of ethnic minorities in todays society, it's not really polite to assume anything about anyone. You should have said, maybe, "Hey, I don't suppose you happen to know Chinese"? That would have been the most polite.
quote:Originally posted by Austin Powers: Here you can be glad if you have a job. Start complaining about some crazy P.C. crap and be sure to find yourself on the street in no time. Planety of others waiting to take your former job.
I'm sure people will be just aching to move to Germany now.
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If I was in Wal-Mart, wearing a blue shirt with white lettering on it, I'd probably get asked where the toilet paper is whether I worked at Wal-Mart or not.
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When you see a phrase written in German, would you ask a random white person what it says?
If you were an Indian in India, perhaps you might.
People do quite commonly assume Asian people are all Chinese
Well, the majority ARE. What, 1.3 billion now?
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The majority population of the world is Chinese if you look at it that way. But if a Martian landed and went up to YOU and said "Since the largest group on this world is Chinese, we demand you translate this Chinese language", would that make it all right? Or would you say, "Look you moron green-faced tentacle man, I'm from Tennessee" just as someone might say "Look you moron, I'm Korean not Chinese, not Japanese, not Vietnamese..."
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But if a Martian landed and went up to YOU and said "Since the largest group on this world is Chinese, we demand you translate this Chinese language", would that make it all right?
No, it's be incredibly rude. Thankfully, that has nothing to do with the subject at hand. If a Martian came up to me and ASKED if I could read Chinese, I'd say no and think nothing more of it. Well, beyond the fact that there was a martian in front of me.
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Well, it does, because Alshrim didn't ask if the girl could read Chinese, he asked what it said. Which is the subtle but important difference.
And, to use your own analogy, this wasn't a Chinese person in China. This was a Chinese person in the US, and if I was in the US, I wouldn't assume they knew Chinese, especially if they were speaking without a Chinese accent (which they might or might not have been, to be fair).
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You missed the analogy. This is an American asking an Asian person in American if she could read Chinese. An Indian person in India might ask an American if he could read German. And he said "Can you read this for me?" which could just as easily be asking if she was capable, from what I'm reading.
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