| From: | Stuart M. Willis hbiki@****.geocities.com |
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| Subject: | Instituional Racism and Cultural Bias. |
| Date: | Thu, 20 May 1999 12:03:58 +1000 |
>the potatoe famine in Ireland. My family name is Monogue now, whereas family
>names of my ancestors before him was Minogue. Care to guess why? Because my
>great-grandfather changed his name so he wouldn't be lynched for being Irish.
>You know who did the lynchings? Everyone not Irish. This includes the
>blacks and
>hispanics and Native Americans of the time. Do I whine about it? Am I
>emotionally scarred by it? No. The worst that's gonna happen to me is I'll
>change my name back to Minogue. Which I am planning on doing.
dfference is, these days the whites [one the whole] don't seem themselves
as distinct racial groups as they once did. so you're not going to be
oppressed under the white partiarchy if you are white and male.
however, it is quite common for 'white' families to hold preconceived ideas
about the scottish, irish, english and french too. the racism is on such a
fundamental level it is hard to decondition it from oneself. i still make
comments about the whining poms more than i do about the drunken irish (i
may be english, irish, french, scottish and gypsy - but the english part is
miniscule). its part of my families culture, because i am mostly irish.
> Depends, I don't think that when they are treated differently due to
>race or culture, it is unfai
out of curosity, to your 'subscribe' to formal or substantial equality?
>6.) As far as the media goes, I hate to disappoint anyone out there with
>notions
>about what the media is out there for, but it is to make money. Either by
>entertaining the masses, or shocking them. It's purpose is NOT to disseminate
>information, its purpose is NOT for informing the masses, except in the cases
>where these two things ALSO make the media money.
the Australian Broadcasting Corporation makes no money and is *does*
disseminate information. yes, it is a government owned service, but it is
an example of how the media can be constructed. it doesn't have to be there
to make money.
my webpage is part of the media, it ain't there to make money. nor is the
shadowrun archive. they disseminate information about a particular thing,
yes...
to suggest that the media per se is there to make money is flawed -
etymologically and logically speaking.
>7.) Both sides of this argument are never going to get anywhere, because they
>are at dynamically opposed viewpoints. The white people dislike it when the
>non-white people say "Whites are supremeist SOBs who opress non-whites" and
>non-white people dislike it when the white's opress them.
that's seriously a bad attitude to have. i could deconstruct your sentence
with e-prime and make myself a lot happier, but i shan't bother.
>8.) Language. The official language of the United States is English. That
>is the
>language that the majority of the people there know, it is the language
>that the
>majority of business is done in, and it is the language that will reach
>the most
>people clearly and understandably. Does this mean I will be prejudiced against
>someone who speaks only Spanish?
but in 2005 or something (can't remember the exact date) the Hispanic
Culture(s) are going to be the dominant one(s) in the USA. so *you* better
start to learn spanish properly, kid.
english is a terribly inefficient language for business. good riddance to it!
care,
s.
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