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Great comment!

There's nothing I can add, you've covered it all.

I can only add that my personal experience makes me very wary of those who defend a stereotype like this.

Since I'm of mixed race I have the (mis)fortune of having been mistaken for various ethnic identities when I've travelled. It's no fun looking like you belong to the wrong group in a society and things only get better when people let go of the stereotypes enough.                                                                            

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Fri Apr 14th, 2006 at 04:26:26 AM EST
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And lest it seems I'm picking on the nation that the diary writer comes from. Most places have a varying degree of racial tension. It is unfortunately a hard to avoid product of how our societies have evolved.

What matters, in my experience, however, is the way that progressive people try to engage with the problem.

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Fri Apr 14th, 2006 at 04:28:31 AM EST
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Answering your previous two replies, take a look at comment I made to stormy present, just below. I would really like to have your comment, because you have personal experience on the issue.

Be careful! Is it classified?
by darin (dkaloyanov[at]gmail.com) on Fri Apr 14th, 2006 at 04:58:19 AM EST
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