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The Dare; so Me dared me to do this...so I will
Topic Started: Apr 2 2010, 04:03 PM (2,523 Views)
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There are certain commonalities (I mean, a guy slipping on a banana peel is a guy slipping on a banana peel). They still make fat jokes, and "blonde" jokes (not about blondes), they just use a very different context as far as delivery. Directly translating a joke in either direction usually isn't funny to anybody.
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Prolly just leads to a lot of confusion, I'd guess.

Blonde jokes? :lol:
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Blonde jokes are like religion jokes; which are like racism jokes, and lawyer jokes: They NEVER cease to be funny. Problem is so many people just take offense to them, so I can only make the jokes that apply to Me. (Which are great, especially when we bring the Nazi/German blood and the Irish/Drunkard blood out. :evil: )
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Racist? Hehe...I'm very racist. Betcha didn't know that.

HUMAN RACE FOR THE WIN! ^_^

So I can make jokes at everybody. Ethnic jokes...okay, THOSE I'll be careful with.
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I'm not. :lol: I have a surprising number of bloods I can claim "Nuh UH! I can SO!" for the sake of jokes. I'm about the most irreverent person out there on an impersonal basis. :D
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Every culture has those groups they associate with various things, blondes and stupidity, Irish drunks (as Me mentioned). In China they obviously don't say much about Irish, or blondes but there's the group that's "stupid" the one that's "priviledged" (and therefore worthy of ridicule); they're just different subgroups within the country.

You want a horrible example of how such prejudicing is applied? The Chinese I dealt with the most are all from the province of FuJian. The best way I know to describe how greater China sees them to Americans?
Most Chinese look at Fujianese people like Americans look at Mexicans. It effectively describes the social outlook, based on racial/geographical prejudices held by "the majority" of the population
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Apr 16 2010, 12:57 AM
Domini-speech. I think it used to be Spanish.

And yeah, dialects of most germanic/european languages have nothing on Chinese dialects. I speak Mandarin, can get tidbits of the Cantonese 'dialect' but Shanghai-hua may as well be Vietnamese - sound wise it has far fewer common elements than English does with German. The other dialects get worse from there.
and yet it's funny how sometimes it can sound very japanese (darn...i forgot the name...there is some hotel, i think in columbia, that sounds so japanese you could swear it is :lol: )
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Well, I have no problem making fun of other people. I just won't do it when they're around. :lol:
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And if I can claim they apply to Me, too, I'll do it WHILE they're around, too!
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Everything applies to me! I'm still human, after all (I think).
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Yes, well, they rarely see it that way; ethnicity jokes get you a world of political bullhockey and we all know how great I am about apologizing. Easier to make them when the parties aren't around. :D
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That's why I love saying I'm racist - and then springing the last part on them. :lol: Their faces are funny.

There's only one race; I wish people would get over the whole 'differences' thing already.
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As long as ideas like "Affirmative action" and "equal opportunity" as government seems to see it, yeah racism is going to continue to be a problem as much as with more 'negative' forms.
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Oh, yeah - the whole reason 'racism', as the politically correct term it, exists is because people use the term.

Really, if people would just stop using the term...then I think we'd find things happen a bit differently.
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Most ridiculous thing I heard? One of my friends in NY (black) was running the ticket counter for the theater attached to our college. This guy (also black) was trying to get discount tickets to this show "I'm a really close friend of one of the performers" etc, etc.

She wasn't caving, and he kept calling said friend (supposedly) and coming back with new arguements until finally he just walks up and says: "Come on... Obama!" Like it fits somehow. 0.o
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