"I feel like I'm a king because I'm the only Caucasian in the city."
This is what someone said about visiting Asian city. Is he looking down on Asian people? Is he racist?
White people often say they are ofended a lot even they aren't racist. So now I don't know what is racist.
What is racist? Is this racism?
2007-04-20 17:32:21 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
He was not joking.
What can I say to him when he was talking like that? I'm Asian.
Also What is racism and what is not? I'm comfused.
2007-04-20 17:38:27 · update #1
It sounds racist and arrogant to me. That is not the type of statement you make unless you have a very big ego. I would be offended if I was at the other end of that.
2007-04-20 17:36:20 · answer #1 · answered by Nanneke 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He is not. He is the only American around and looks different and just like there are often stigmas attached to particular ethnic or genetic groupings in America, they exist elsewhere. When I am on the East Coast, New York City, Washington D.C., some areas of the South. I feel very, blessed. People gravitate towards me as if I am a celebrity because I am a tall, handsome, intelligent Native American Man. I am so rare, people are delighted to know and meet me. In areas, where we call them Border towns, the bias is just that, definitly not positive, here out west. You could be getting White privilege confused with racism or bias. I know on the east coast where Natives are RARE, the bias toward me is so POSITIVE, I feel like a celebrity.
2007-04-21 00:49:15 · answer #2 · answered by nativearchdoc 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are not very intelligent to be friends with someone who speaks like that, although I find it very hard to believe that he wasn't joking. You do not understand spoken English and you are misinterpreting everything that you see and hear. Perhaps you should take some anger management classes and learn how to control yourself so that you do not end up killing everyone that you see like your friend cho-cho did. If you need help learning the culture and idiosyncrasies of your new surroundings, you need to ask and ACCEPT your new surroundings. No one is going to cater to your feelings. If you are homesick, return to Japan, you can not survive in Western culture. And if you can't be accepted by the gay community, there is really something wrong with you. You are a horrible rotten person just like wiaching liu and cho.
2007-04-22 08:47:30 · answer #3 · answered by Hot Coco Puff 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Of course it's racist. Just because someone is the only white person in a city, that doesn't make them king, nor should that person feel like one.
2007-04-21 00:37:09 · answer #4 · answered by Chris R 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They could be racist. By saying that I think he means that white people are superior. Or he could mean that it makes him significant and special?
2007-04-21 00:37:34 · answer #5 · answered by Mariah R 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sounds like he was joking.
Typically, Caucasians are taller than asians and that is probably all he was referring to.
2007-04-21 00:35:17 · answer #6 · answered by Alibi 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Tell him to go among the chimps and be their Tarzan king,he will still be inferior to them there.
2007-04-21 00:51:29 · answer #7 · answered by amleth 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sounds like Stupidity to me
2007-04-21 00:35:22 · answer #8 · answered by with2kids 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
well they made themselves look stupid. Where ever they went, hopefully they get crappy treatment from the local citizens.
2007-04-21 00:36:17 · answer #9 · answered by Aldo 78522 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You should ask him what he meant by that comment then go from there.
2007-04-21 01:45:42 · answer #10 · answered by Young Sebi 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋