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crash into me

i really love the music of dmb. hot.

speaking of crashing.. has anyone else seen the movie 'crash'? wow. great stuff.

speaking of which, today i saw a real-life crash in front of my eyes. there is a small intersection at which there are no lights. most people understand that the person who is going down the main street has the right of way. i believe. anyway, the driver on the crossing street, the non-main one, decided to go first. either because he approached the intersection first or because he was simply in a rush. fine. the driver on the main street, however, didnt want the other to go. i didnt get to see all that went down, but i did hear a bit. (im going to use the exact words, so pardon my greek):

'you arab bitch!' 'you fuc king jew!!'

yeah, i thought to myself; that could be possible.

living in the northeast for some time, i had noticed that _we_ dont generally use racial expressions to denigrate. again, i said generally. after i saw the movie 'crash', it was interesting that those characters used only racial terms in all of their furor. i felt sorry for those on the west coast.

anyway, i guess the west coast has finally made its way east. i suppose in retrospect i was slightly amused when he said those phrases, seeing as i thought the guy was greek...

upon hearing the slurs, my head dropped in shame. and i covered my ears and kept walking.

life, eh? next time, he should at least try to be more consistent with the race shout-outs.

in his car, i saw the flag of ... well, thats not important. you take a guess.

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I should not be naseeb, whatever color failing the bar won't help me change the world! btw all of a sudden I can't read the how's your day going thread!

i love canada. btw, hmcq, please contact me asap. thanks

thanks taugi!

n, hope that helped! :-)

z_x2 - i cant read any of your posts cuz i cannot afford to pay the high naseeb fees to be a premium member. i saw your profile and it seems like we're in the same boat - recently married, moved to boston, looking for jobs as attorneys.

what about the saying 'sticks and stones may break my bones, but words KILL'!??

i suppose in the end, ignorance knows no colour and has no home team. its a lose-lose situation, bottom line.

good point. see, the guy above was, himself, an 'ethnic minority' which i found soo interesting. was it his attempt at aligning with the more powerful or was it really just another shot in the foot by one of 'us'?

Well I used the words "model minority" in quotes just for that reason since there is nothing model about it. Taugi if it is offered, take some Critical Race Theory in your 3L , I did it was one of the best things I did for myself. It is true, there is an acute racial scism and its historical, often time adopted and perpetuated by the new immigrants in an effort to align more closely with the power sttructure.

very very true, z. it has been engrained in this country and acutely so. which is not to say that others dont experience the chasm. instead of saying 'model minority', i would suggest that the experience has to do with the history of this country. see jim crow, brown v. education, plessy v. ferguson. etal.

Well LA has a huge devide in terms of income but generally if you have the cash you can live the good life. This is in contrast to places where even having money and living in a great neighborhood wont' give you acceptance (mostly the south I lived in Georgia for about a year or so). Quiet frankly though race plays out very differently for "model minority" types which most Asians, Middleasterners tend to be in and the traditional american inorities of African American and Lation variety, I can't speak for those groups since the racial divide and the seriousness of the stuggle is at another level, and to a much larger degree institutionalized.

yeah, the fob/abcd thing is something i only really paid attention to recently. its really sad, since all of the abcds parents (on up) are/were 'fob's themselves.

B! YES I've been here for the last 19 I have noticed ages 7-12 or something are in one group 0-6 in another and 12-17 another and then 18+ at comming here are a diff. group. there are generalizations of course but I've definately seen the divide.

i have lived in VA, AR, SC, NY, WA, CA, and MA. The south, by far, is the toughest.

Let me a add a twist to the dicussion. I have recently seen the FOB/ABCD phenomenon play out in front of my own eyes. I was intrigued as having spent 18 years in this country, I have never observed this before...a few years more or a few years less in the US seem to really matter to some folks. Is it really that big a deal?

Taugi I had a similar exp. in college but since my college was so huge I could effectively keep my self out of those loops.

I grew up in a neighborhood that was mainly Japanese/white/Desi/Latino/Black in that order probably...I understand what you mean by racial invisibility I really think I experienced lots of varied cultures but I didn't feel it either as a limitation on my interactions with other,... when I went to college it was even more diverse, I know there were clicks but I was never involved in groups that were mainly race/culture based, so my experience was always with all kinds of people. I think people find it hard to belive but it really was how it was where I grew up.

let me guess a confederate flag??? how fitting would that be.

i remember when i got to college, there seemed like there was some urgency to have everyone form groups with those with the same shade/ethnic background. i wanted to barf.

so, did you grow up in a diverse setting and were able to 'have' to interact with people of different ethnicities too? i really want to know more about everyones path traveled en route to boston.

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