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This is for all us minority/ "colored" TAs in here... (pg. 2)
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| blazed it |
| wtf are chavs, damn ukta blokes i've been hearing this crap for the longest time but i have no idea what the hell chavs are. please enlighten me. |
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| dj_mdma |
| quote: | Originally posted by blazed it
wtf are chavs, damn ukta blokes i've been hearing this crap for the longest time but i have no idea what the hell chavs are. please enlighten me. |
in the USA you have thugs/homies.
in the UK you have chavs.
http://www.chavscum.co.uk/ ;)
that site will tell you everything you need to know...and probably dissuade you from visitng the uk
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| dinoXpress |
| quote: | Originally posted by Nou
then you would have an asian kid sitting there in a white dress shirt and slacks and he would take you out to his civic and show u a trunk full of bud and some assorted weapons... :nervous:
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haha just like in the movies! |
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| A.J. |
| Would you consider Mike Skinner (The Streets) to be a chav ? or a scallie ? (which i'd imagine is similar to a chav, although it might be location-specific). |
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| |cEbLu3 |
| some ass from my Uni Football team, got irritated once cos i was at a party talking to this girl he likes. so he comes over and says, "why don't you go back to afghanistan." ( I'm light brown, but becos i'm indian + burmese, peeps sometimes have a tough time figuring out my ethinicity ) Anyway, thankfully the girl ( whose name is Jill, I love ya babe! ) replies " WTF you dumb, he's from London. Why don't you go back to where ever the you came from." |
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| Lira |
Racism is a funny thing. Not funny as in hilarious but as in "peculiar", for the lack of a better word.
As far as "race" is concerned, I'm either white, hispanic (gotta love this one) or multi-racial - actually, I was advised to get the quota for "black" people in university as anthropologists would analyse my face rather than the colour of my skin and some white people were accepted into their criteria. So I guess that would make me black and I would be a part of a minority without even have acknowledged it. Or maybe not.
Have I ever experienced a minority status? Kinda. As some of you might know, I study Japanese literature and culture, and I know an absurd amount of Brazilians of Japanese ancestry (in fact, the first time I met an actual Japanese, I thought she was Brazilian as well, and took a while to figure out why her accent was so thick). One of my best mates, who shares the usual "Amerindo-Afro-European" ancestry most Brazilians have, would often complain that he was being called gaijin in a derogatory way (by people who seemed quite friendly to me) and that he was segregated by the aforementioned group. Then a funny thing happened when I started dating my girlfriend, who is also Brazilian but has Japanese ancestry - the so-called "Japs" of that first group would often seem to segregate themselves, having some difficulty recognising themselves as "Brazilian" (my girlfriend didn't seem to have this problem as much as they had) even though many of them were aware of the fact that they were not "Japanese" in Japan. Most likely, this is what happens when you're identified by an "ethnicity" belonging to a country different than your own. There are loads of papers written about it.
Back to topic, I wouldn't consider the facts mentioned in the first post as "racism" but rather "jokes" considering that, if he looks Chinese, people who are not familiar with the Chinese migration to the US will perceive him as Chinese. I actually laughed when I read the "Ching Chong" bit. It's not like he had been abused or anything, although it can happen as Jackson once reported that his girlfriend (whose parents come from China) was rudely treated by some old lady in the UK.
I would keep writing (in order to finish my point) but I need to do a little something here. |
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| dj_mdma |
| quote: | Originally posted by A.J.
Would you consider Mike Skinner (The Streets) to be a chav ? or a scallie ? (which i'd imagine is similar to a chav, although it might be location-specific). |
different names are area specific, but the media-specific name of "chav" has generally graced all the groups of scumbags in the uk.
The whole ideology of a chav is someone who hangs around the streets all day and living off the government benefits etc.
Therefore Mike Skinner is not a true chav since he has a strong musical career and earns money. his appearance and thought processes lend himself to looking like he belongs in the chav group. but that is all :toothless |
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| placebo |
Ignorance is universal in all people.
I live in the South, I deal with discrimination everyday--from all colours.
I didn't enslave your ing family, I didn't beat your great great great grandma--leave me the alone. |
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| Moral Hazard |
| Speeking on behalf of the man we would like to ask all of the uppity sub-humans posting in this thread to report to your local police station for a beating....er, re-education. The rest of you that are playing into the appropriate racial stereotype for the ammusement of the WASPs please continue. |
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| Drifter |
| i grew up in a school with no racism said out aloud, but deeper racism...you don't know who are pretending to be your friends and who really are your friends, get my drift? |
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| beats and beeps |
| Eh, people call me a ****** sometimes, or ignore me. No biggie. |
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| Sunsnail |
| Yeah, my school is so unracially diverse its crazy :wtf: It's like 90% Black, 10% other :wtf: So yeah, a lot of racism :rolleyes: |
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