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El Jorge.. I thinks u miss understand my point.. it is not where you come from.. I think China is a great place. it is those that strangle your country with the idealistic monopoly that they enforce on all of its citizens.. I agree with her hatred of MAO.. I similarly Love America and being american.. but I have love for my native country of Scotland even if I have never set foot nor eyes upon her.. in some sense of being i think lots of us long to know our regions of origin due to ethnic heritage, but alas this is also due to societies constant thrust upon us to an ethnicity rather than countrymen. I think our true selves have been stolen from us by the media and politics.. but sadly this is the developing culture that is brewing here.. its sad.. and I hate how everything is "African-American" OR Asian-American OR Mexican-American or India-American" but yet whites are labeled "Caucasian" as just to keep the thought always in your head that we are ALL DIFFERENT no matter what, and yet.. shouldn't we all just be "American?"


There are many people like I that would like to do away with the labels.. it only divides us.. and that's how they keep us under their control.
 
Well, we are naturally a people of labels because our minds (as much as we may try to resist) are set up to compartmentalize our thinking processes. We forget many of the specific instances of our early pre-toddler years (except for those with perfect memory), but the lessons we learn are still there. Don't touch the stove when it's still hot, falling hurts, etc.

And as such, we compartmentalize that which was are unfamiliar with and familiar with, ethnicity especially. I usually just call everyone I know as a friend as a friend. I rarely need to explain someone's ethnicity when speaking about a person I know. I identify myself as Chinese-American, because I am clearly not African-American, Hispanic American, Native American, or otherwise. I think this all just boils down to upbringing and social culture. The coasts tend to create ethnicity groups as a celebration of difference, whereas Middle America tends to view everything as it was in the 50s, the great Melting Pot that is America, where it didn't matter if you were Irish, Scottish, English, French, German or Dutch, etc. So long as you weren't some city-slicking carpetbagger, you were okay in their books.

Maybe this rant makes no sense, but I personally don't find anything wrong with identifying yourself with your ethnicity so long as you know where your loyalties lie.
 
Yes there is a good reason that you will not hear me talking about politics and this is the main reason.

Fasttrak said:
Ditto

But, like religion, this is one topic typicaly avoided for civil conversation for good reason. Also, the old adage "Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one!" and rarely are they backed with much logic or fact. THese days, the op ed pieces in most rags, especially this new age pseudo web based "reporting", has much basis in fact.



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Ah god, reason why I did not want a politics section on these forums.
This would convert into politics forums instead of a gaming forum.
 
yes.. i prefer to view america as the melting pot.. I think city slicker.. etc is a common misconception conveyed by hollywood from the 50's 60's etc. (most era's) where middle america is some backwards and uneducated part of the country that anyone who is "civilized" and lives on the Coasts should always consider "Fly-Over States".. Sadly.. misconceptions abound..

IF you always keep to your label.. then where do you find yourself? I would like to break free of bastardizing labels.. they only separate people.. Anyways.. My 2 Cents and Mine alone.. Everyone does have their associated "holes" well except for that 1 in 12000 i believe as someone pointed out before in a different thread.. shouldn't make any of us less Human.. That's the ONLY label I'd like to be associated with IMO..

*and in my early years and as I have viewed children in recent years since I have my own.. children on their own that I have viewed.(say toddlers) have never not played with or not socialized with another child if they looked different.. of what I have seen.. that's mostly parents that I have seen doing that.. but again.. just MY 2 cents..(er... hole) :)
 
I like bipartisan politics. I also like watching monkeys shamelessly throw their own feces at anybody who pauses to give them a bit of attention. This is why I occasionally duck behind my wall of sarcasm.

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