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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
- Who do they want before they want an Asian?
- A Mexican,
- Who do they want before they want an Asian?
- A black.
- Who do they want before they want an Asian?
- A Persian or a Cajun or an Indian
- Or an American-Indian played by a Mexican!
Short version is, we're really bad about non-white non-Christian non-heterosexual cultures. Ultimately, a sizable chunk of America really just wants to go back to Fantasy 1950's where gays, black people, and women with opinions didn't exist.
edited 14th Feb '16 12:12:05 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Here's an idea: Ambiguously Brown Muhammad Ramadan grows up in the UK, has an extremely sucky life where everything screams at him to become a terrorist, and obliviously carries on having an incredibly average, boring, mundane life. Then he dies during a terrorist attack. Of a heart stroke.
Many of the things that should shape him to become a terrorist would be extremely Western, British things. Loyalty to the ingroup no matter what the rules say. Stiff upper lip. Tall poppy syndrome. Violence against him done in the name of British values and cultural purity. This Is England, Muhammad, don't you know?
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.Yeah in the US Asian means East Asian, which is weird for countries where the most common Asians are South Asians, even countering Arabs.
Which is weird, as the US actually has one of the most limiting definitions of "white" around, considering people of Iberian decent to not be white, I belive in the early US even the French weren't considered white.
edited 14th Feb '16 1:42:23 PM by Silasw
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran![]()
That depends on how you define Europe, I've seen Georgia included as part of Europe before.
Well as from a country in the region, not everyone bothers to learn to difference and Pakistanis and Indians being mixed up is a thing.
There is a difference between what the documents in the US Social Services claim is white and what the US society claim is white.
I've been through there, officially on the temporary SSN I had I was listed as Caucasian instead of Latino, but still for a lot of American's I wouldn't be considered white.
Inter arma enim silent legesBy the way, Hollywood needs to stop pretending Washington D.C., New York City and Los Angeles are the only places in the US. I know Washington is the Capital, New York City is the largest city, and they are already in California so Los Angeles is easy to film in, but it would be nice to see more variety. Occasionally we'll get Chicago or Philadelphia, but that's about it.
edited 14th Feb '16 3:42:14 PM by Bat178
If the CIA is involved, then Virginia also shows up, but the non-Mason Dixon Southern states (Though they are starting to become a little more common in media), non-West Coast Western states, Midwest and the other Northeastern states besides New York and Pennsylvania usually get ignored.
edited 14th Feb '16 3:54:51 PM by Bat178
Don't forget Seattle.
Also (tinyurl is not working for me right now so no link) Lindsey Graham is making noises about shooting for a consensus candidate. I think he rightly fears that if a Supreme Court seat is in play during the election, things are going to tilt Dem-ward because Citizens United is so hated (and because it'd be yet another example of Republican dysfunction for Sanders or Clinton to run against), so going for a moderate is the Republicans' best shot.
He himself is saying that he doesn't think the Republicans are going to win the election regardless.
edited 14th Feb '16 4:00:12 PM by Ramidel
Boston and it's environs get a fair amount of attention.
edited 14th Feb '16 4:01:09 PM by tricksterson
Trump delenda estAtlanta/GA as a whole is getting more coverage thanks to it being friendly to filming economically (and with Walking Dead, it only increases popularity). For a about a decade, Miami got all the filming love.
Anyway, I just recently learned that even though 28% of Nevada's population is Latino, only 12% of Nevadan voters are. There a lot of young, unregistered, and/or undocumented Latinos there.

It's a problem in the UK, Indian actors are offered roles as Muslim terrorists all the time and often not much else.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran