The original article bothers me a bit because it seems pretty reluctant to condemn the rudeness of the Vietnamese group and pretty eager to condemn the laziness of the Caucasian group. In the former case, the strongest implication I saw was "it's their culture, and they don't know any better" (and even that is a stretch) and in the latter it's WHITE PRIVILEGE!!!
And even in the former case it seems to be more about white people not stepping up than anything else. Do you read it differently?
I'd say that's pretty consistent with my way of reading it. And an understandable perspective on his part, and maybe even deliberately provocative. But not entirely fair.
For me, it's been a very difficult but very important thing to notice being white.
I've lived in Asian and Native American communities, and worked in an all African-American office, but even there, and sometimes especially there, my road was smoother because I was white. I haven't been very rich or well-born, but I've been white. It's hard to notice the things that don't happen, the problems I don't encounter, but I think I need to try to do that.
Recently, having a bad day, I lost my temper at a motorist honking at my father-in-law in the parking lot and growled "BITE ME!" at her tail lights as only someone who practices Zazen can do
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The original article bothers me a bit because it seems pretty reluctant to condemn the rudeness of the Vietnamese group and pretty eager to condemn the laziness of the Caucasian group. In the former case, the strongest implication I saw was "it's their culture, and they don't know any better" (and even that is a stretch) and in the latter it's WHITE PRIVILEGE!!!
And even in the former case it seems to be more about white people not stepping up than anything else. Do you read it differently?
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I've lived in Asian and Native American communities, and worked in an all African-American office, but even there, and sometimes especially there, my road was smoother because I was white. I haven't been very rich or well-born, but I've been white. It's hard to notice the things that don't happen, the problems I don't encounter, but I think I need to try to do that.
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