Can a non-Indo-European be a racist POS?

[onodera]

Originally posted by Seeker
A few examples:
-There is a Grade 5 activity where the students divide into groups and choose a different country. They must make a simple costume, answer some questions (foods, etc). and do a sort of Parade of the Nations. Korea, China, Japan, England, America, Australia, and 'Africa' are the choices. The costumes for America are cowboy hats and six-guns, etc. 'Africa' is...grass-skirts and nose-bones. And the picture looks like something straight out of Tintin. And of course no team of kids want to be 'Africa' because they are 'torupta' (dirty)

Most people here also think of Africans as grass skirt-wearing people with nose bones who live on palms and eat bananas.
Only the educated people know that they actually wear tire flip-flops, have AIDS and shoot each other with AKs. If they don't, they live in huts made of cow dung.

[Felch]

Originally posted by Alinestra Covelia
This is not so much an intentionally ironic racist post, it's more of a "people are weird - international version!" post.

http://www.hani.co.kr/section-005000000/2005/04/005000000200504081327001.html

(From News of the Weird, but the link above is to a Korean language newspaper with before, during, and after photos.

I'm guessing the photo at the top is after the face reduction. That bottom photo isn't so bad. It's too bad she's crazy and ****ed up her face like that.

[Q Classic]

Originally posted by Alinestra Covelia
In Chinese, "laowai" is Mandarin. "Gwailo" is Cantonese. They mean more or less the same thing.

If you want to get racist, there are terms like "dabi" (big nose) and "hongmao" (red fur) that describe Westerners.

This entire thread is making me sick. There are two things I can't stand - people who are intolerant of others, and the Dutch.

I love the term "Gwailo". I use it all the time when beating the **** out of white people to exact vengeance for Vincent Chin, while shouting, "Gwailo **** YOU!" over and over in a chant.

I'll have to adopt "hongmao" and "dabi" as well.

I've heard some Koreans refer to blacks not with the literal term, "gaman-", but with "ash-colored people": "heungsaek saram".

As far as the Dutch go, nobody likes them. Bunch of tulipped bastards.

[Alinestra Covelia]

In Chinese there is a term "hei gui" which describes a black person. It's not quite as offensive as the "n-word" in English, but it's still pretty insensitive.

I had not heard this word in a long time until my brother phoned me up and said "Shenme shang, wode hei gui?"

Which literally translates to

"What up, my black ghost?"

I lol'd.

[Elok]

http://www.snopes.com/racial/business/sofa.asp

Awesome.

[Alinestra Covelia]

BBC's search function is pretty impotent, but I remember a BBC news story after the Olympics in 2004 at Athens, where they reported on the Chinese coverage of the 110m hurdler who won gold.

Chinese reporting doesn't have the same racial sensitivity that, say, America might have, and they actually refer to themselves as "huang zu" or "yellow race". The report in Chinese mentioned that it was unusual for Asians to outperform blacks and whites in purely physical sports, and this made the Chinese hurdler's achievement all the more remarkable.

I wish I could find that report on the BBC website now. It's a fascinating look into what is considered offensive in some places but what is not in others. I think it echoes much of Q Classic's and Seeker's observations about what some cultures hold as normal.

The Chinese probably deserve the prize, since their very language has no word for non-Chinese except barbarian.

Are you sure about that? "Wai guo ren" literally means "person from out of the country".

[onodera]

That's a reasonable remark, IMO. Blacks *are* better runners, in general.

[Q Classic]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/penelopesloom/2257982208/

Hei Ren Ya Gao!

[Heresson]

she was actually a nice girl. Sad, very sad.

[Q Classic]

Huh?

[Alinestra Covelia]

I think Heresson is referring to the Korean woman who got multiple excessive facial implants. She was good looking before it all happened.

[Alinestra Covelia]

Also, the Hei Ren Ya Gao is listed as "Darlie" toothpaste. Back in the day, it used to have a "K" instead of an "L". It's still sold in Taiwan today, and the trademark comes from the fact that black people's teeth looked very white by comparison to their skin color. So it was felt that they had beautiful teeth, a trait the toothpaste would replicate.

[Q Classic]

Originally posted by Alinestra Covelia
I think Heresson is referring to the Korean woman who got multiple excessive facial implants. She was good looking before it all happened.

Koreans are all kinds of ****ed up. I should know, I am one.

[Seeker]

I think Standing Fan must've been a picked on 'wang ta' girl to be so crazy.

LOL or maybe he mother just couldn't bear to point out the obvious!