boundary lines T_T, why do people make ethnicity/race a big deal? |
 Oct 3 2008, 12:34 AM
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HI HI
BEFORE I GO ON, ONE IMPORTANT THING TO SAY I AM THE OTHER CATEGORY WHEN IT COMES TO RACE (half af-am/ half german-cherokee) there is one thing that i cant understand about people, and that is "boundary lines". that what i call them at least. some people feel that just because you are a certain color or race you should or should not like certain things or hang out with certain people. i don't understand why though, i mean its 2008. all of my closest friends are chinese, at first this was like this big deal in high school. "OMG YOU HANG OUT WITH ASAINS?" OR "OH YEAH MY COUSIN HANGS OUT WITH ASAINS NOW, SE HAS NO TIME FOR US." i mean WTF!?!?! is race really that important? i joined the chinese club at my college. on the first meeting when i walked in it was as if the room went dark and 20 spotlights were on me. so i kept getting the same questions over and over. "WHY DID YOU WANT TO JOIN?" "HOW DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THIS CLUB?" and it went on and on, and the whole time i wanted to laugh at the shocked expression on their faces at my answers. I NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHY IT MATTERS SO MUCH? AM I WEIRD FOR HAVING ASAIN FRIENDS OR FEELING COMFORTABLE AROUND THEM? O_O |
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Oct 3 2008, 12:42 AM
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It just matters to certain people. Maybe they were raised a certain way to how they take problems such as these. No, you aren't weird for having asian friends or feeling comfortable around them. Some people just have issues with people of a different race. I don't think this will ever really change. Just hang out with whoever's a friend to you, don't worry about other people's reactions.
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Oct 3 2008, 12:49 AM
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 [pandemonium] :3 Group: Human Posts: 225 Joined: Jul 2008 Member No: 671,107 |
because they're lame. People are just naturally prejudice and it sucks.
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Oct 3 2008, 12:57 AM
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Its just how people are, but that doesn't make it bad. With some people you just have to grow on them, because they don't really know what you're all about.
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Oct 3 2008, 03:30 AM
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 ^_^ Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 8,141 Joined: Jan 2005 Member No: 91,466 |
It's unfortunate, but it's just a matter of society's conditioning. Times are, most certainly, changing for the better. More and more, the barriers are being broken down.
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Oct 3 2008, 08:28 AM
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^agreed
and cliques form all the time, unintentionally usually too. |
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