And now I'll tell you what's against us, an art that's lived for centuries. Go through the years and you will find what's blackened all of history. Against us is the law with its immensity of strength and power - against us is the law! Police know how to make a man a guilty or an innocent. Against us is the power of police! The shameless lies that men have told will ever more be paid in gold - against us is the power of the gold! Against us is racial hatred and the simple fact that we are poor.
- The Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti, Joan Baez
One of the funniest INTERNET FORUM posts I've seen for a while. Beginning to think you might actually be someone with a sense of humor. Only a suspicion though. I need more evidence. Just like cofc being total troll.
OK, I get it, you DO have a sense of humor. Replying to me claiming to be god with a post about religious freedoms to create cults about being the son of god is almost detached enough to be an Australian attempt. I would have got it if you left the internet bit out though. Do we still need a discussion on your dress sense and communication skills?
Exactly why I tried to pin the convo to specific events.......
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I'm glad I'm not judgemental like all you smug, superficial idiots
I'm confused about two things. For starters why would you think I don't have a sense of humor, if you knew me at all, you would know I'm hilarious. Two, I don't get why you think I'm joking. I literally have a cult of followers on Skype, so come at me other religions. And finally, please quit attempting to talk down to me, kthx.
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Jdurand, the very idea that your diversity is something to celebrate is a bit of a joke to me when you have such blatant and obvious divisions along racial lines there.
It would be something Canada could celebrate certainly though, but the US... meh... not really. At least not looking from the outside or from the multitude of times I've visited.
Even if you look at just whites only diversity it is obvious that there are obvious divisions which even after a century or 2 haven't been worked out. If anything it is something to lament. The obvious potential coupled with the way it has worked out. Especially given the fact that your northern neighbours have done so much better at doing the exact same thing in pretty much the same circumstances. Although I suppose you can say that they got a bit of a head start given the underground railroad and all that jazz.
Surely I don't need to tell you that racism in the US is alive and "well". The diversity you speak of would be impressive if it wasn't for that huge and obvious barrier to equality.
Detroit, 9 mile road. One side has all the whites. One side has all the blacks. They actually did a map series on this recently... see if I can find it...
http://demographics.coopercenter.org/DotMap/index.html
That's the source data.
You can tell obvious areas that are segregated using that, so areas are much more segregated than others.
And yet diversity is something to be proud of
On the other hand, you have Canada...
While I do agree there's racism in the US, trying to claim it's especially bad here is ridiculous on its face.
Look at the Shia & the Sunni. Look at the Japanese... or pretty-much any Asian country. Look at the treatment of the Romanii in Europe.
Racism isn't a "US problem", it's a "human problem".
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The very idea that you're comparing yourself to 3rd world nations (Japan withstanding) just proves how desperate you are to make yourself look less crap.
The Roma in Europe do need more protection though. I will agree with that 100%. On the other hand given that they refuse to be tied to a single nation, then it isn't like it is anything like the same thing. I guess the only parallel you have in the US is the "illegals" working all your farms. Except that the Roma don't do agricultural work most of the time of course.
Oh come on Kurtz.
You know very well that racism is alive and well in Europe. Trying to sweep the Roma situation under the rug by saying "they refuse to be tied to a single nation" only shows your own nationalism shining through.
Anti-Muslim race riots happen in France all the time. There's sectarian violence in most countries of the former USSR right now. Religious intolerance runs rampant across the globe.
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Consent is amazing to you?
Detroit and all other Norwayesque places.
Chosen segregation is ideal. State mandated segregation is not ideal.
Apparently you have not either.
Explain the large populations of ethnic groups in US compared to say Norway for example. Your country has no diversity.
It seems to me a few posters are racist about Americans. So I would say there's rampant racism going on everywhere.
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I wasn't aware Americans constituted a race.
And now I'll tell you what's against us, an art that's lived for centuries. Go through the years and you will find what's blackened all of history. Against us is the law with its immensity of strength and power - against us is the law! Police know how to make a man a guilty or an innocent. Against us is the power of police! The shameless lies that men have told will ever more be paid in gold - against us is the power of the gold! Against us is racial hatred and the simple fact that we are poor.
- The Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti, Joan Baez
There is racism everywhere. The difference being that in the US it is institutionalised. The Roma are an issue that I do not like the way it is being handled at all and in a way institutionalised in certain parts of Europe.
The fact that they refuse to be tied to a specific country just makes it so much easier for the racists to be able to target them.
I'd argue the same about Indian food in the US. It saddens me that we don't have good Mexican here though. Having said that, the Mexican food you get in the US is most often TexMex rather than real Mexican. Not sure which I prefer to be honest.
No, we have decent Indian. Then again I'm in the bay area, we have everything here. I walked down Valencia in SF today and passed Mexican, Ethiopian, specialty chocolates, burgers and fries, some place that only served cheese, I think a thai place... Totally not diverse. Though good Mexican stops east of the Mississippi.
Again, you avoid the biggest targets of racism in Europe... the Muslims.
It is sponsored by the government when laws are made against certain types of clothing. Something that hasn't happened in the US.
Racism in the US is personal, not governmental... heck, despite many people trying it, the US still doesn't have a "national language". Laws against illegal immigration in the US completely ignore the country of origin of the immigrant, yet there are laws in European countries that specifically target certain ethnic groups.
In Japan, there are laws about adopting foreign words into the language! In Iceland, there are laws about what you can name your kids!!!
Get down off your high-horse, Kurtz. Americans as individuals might be more likely to be racist than average... but America as a Country is certainly less racist.
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Our diversity in Syracuse has shrunk a bit, or maybe I'm still bitter about my favorite Japanese restaurant/jazz club closing.
In any regards, you can get Thai, Indian, Vietnamese, some of the best Irish food you can find in the states, Italian of course, and even a Greek restaurant. Not too shabby for a small upstate NY city.
What does "upstate" mean? I've often wondered since it doesn't always seem to match. Is it Just anything north of the city?
I'm glad I'm not judgemental like all you smug, superficial idiots
Hell, I live a good 20 minutes from the nearest city limit (and that's a small city), and there's still plenty of different types of ethnic food places within driving distance, especially Mexican, Chinese, and Japanese, but also Greek, Italian, and probably others that I'm forgetting or don't know about.