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# I like this but don't understand it, so have a text repost.
I have in the past been...
perplexed by the disparity between the british 'asian' (i.e. indo-pakistani descent) and the american 'asian' (oriental). I asked my sister's american flatmate what she would mean if she described someone as 'asian' and she got on a high horse and said she never would because that's labelling someone with something they can't control and that I was a racist for saying anything like it.

I asked her how she'd describe someone's apparent ethnic origin to the police in the event that she got mugged.

Her reply?

'If he robbed me then he's probably black.'

I love my own double standards but I do not respect them in others.

P.s. if anyone's offended by the language in this post, please feel free to ignore it. I'll be out back playing with my black lesbian wheelchair-bound midget special-needs gypsy friend 'token'.
(, Wed 7 Mar 2007, 14:28, archived)
# hahaha
i love her quote,
the massive twat
(, Wed 7 Mar 2007, 14:30, archived)
# poor dear
Asia is a continent therefore constitutes anyone from Turkey (starting at the med) to the top right tip of Russia (pacific/bering sea) hemmed in by the artic ocean north and the Indian ocean south. Its the biggest continent in the world. Next time your sisters friend says she's American tell her it's wrong to label herself with something she cant control. Or do as I'd do and just tell her to shut up ;)
(, Wed 7 Mar 2007, 15:52, archived)