Epic Racism

[AmbrosiaWriter]

In Spanish, "cockroach" (cucaracha) is used as a term for the vagina.

That's backwards! It should be the guy's that is called a cockroach! It invades and leaves unwanted infestations!

[dalesys]

Another example, a "faggot" is a bundle of sticks. Guess what a lot of Americans think "fag/faggot" means?

And in Brit slang it's a cigarette.

Which makes Maura O'Connell's Irish Blues safe for work, I guess...

...He stands at the corner
A fag in his mouth
Two hands in his pockets
He whistles me out...

[fma_fanatic]

Nado...lovey dovey dovey uh oh oh oh...

I was thinking more along the lines of this song, but yeah

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WzHhtkF8JM&feature=fvst

[morgana]

That's backwards! It should be the guy's that is called a cockroach! It invades and leaves unwanted infestations!

I just about fell out of my chair!

[XCashier]

I wouldn't want word to get out that "American Chinese food" has almost nothing to do with actual Chinese cuisine >_> I happen to like our wonderful bastardization of their grub (read: Mandarin Chicken with brown gravy), and I'd like to be able to keep getting it .

I've tried both, and I do like both. It's really difficult to find authentic Chinese cuisine where I am, so I'll take the Americanized version for now.

[vikingchyk]

I don't get it. I love the sound of the Japanese and Chinese language. The only time Chinese can get a little irritating is when they get really angry and start screaming at each other (but I think that's more in how the Chinese tend to argue -lots of repetition- rather than the language itself.)

I had a roommate from Hong Kong for a semester when I was in college. Because of the time difference, the best time for her to call home (this was pre-cell phone days, so the dorm room phone was the best option) was when I was trying to sleep, after 11pm at night. I could mostly tune it out, except whenever she'd throw an English word in there - then my brain would immediately turn on because it ceased being white noise. It doesn't help one of the English words she would use would be 'roommate' You couldn't find another word to talk about me behind my back in front of my face?

[vikingchyk]

Re: "orientals"

That term is used pretty much exclusively by older folks. I've never heard somebody my age refer to Asians that way.

I'm a bit older, I think: late 40s; My friend in college would say "Ornamentals" for a laugh. Then we'd tell him he was still being racist. He was black. Hours of amusement...

[telecom_goddess]

Yes the term "orientals" is used by older people. My mother was one of those who insisted in calling all asian people orientals and all black people coloreds. And she loved using the phrase "there's a ni**er in the woodpile somewhere"....Drove me nuts. But she wasn't a bigot....oh no!

[Mr Hero]

That's backwards! It should be the guy's that is called a cockroach! It invades and leaves unwanted infestations!

I've noticed an infestation here. Everywhere I look, in fact. Nothing but undeveloped, unevolved, barely conscious pond scum, totally convinced of their own superiority as they scurry about their short, pointless lives.

[fireheart]

I believe this is relevant....

[AmbrosiaWriter]

I've noticed an infestation here. Everywhere I look, in fact. Nothing but undeveloped, unevolved, barely conscious pond scum, totally convinced of their own superiority as they scurry about their short, pointless lives.

Hey, Mr. Hero. I have a friend I want you to meet. His name is the Noisy Cricket.

[Howler]

"There are ways to behave in public."

Oui, madamoiselle. Je ne savais pas que les Etats-Unis avaient adopté une loi contre le parlant une autre langue. Sortez, ou je vais appeler la police et leur dire que je vous ai vu jeter un oeil dans les jeunes enfants.

WIN!

Some people's kids...

[iPanda]

I wouldn't actually say this to her, but this is what I'd like to say: "It's okay, Ms Ignorant Lady, I can't say much for other Asian ethnicities but Korean people are racist to every other race there is. Even other Korean people. I mean, we have a North and South Korea. That's how racist Korean people are."

(I'm Korean and I'm just joking.)

[Shalom]

yeah I'm pretty sure General Tso didn't cook glazed chicken.

A few years back, the LA Times had an article (reprinted in the Newark Star-Ledger) about General Tso's chicken. They actually tracked down Tso Tsung-t'ang's great^3-grandson, who still lived in Hunan Province somewhere. He seemed completely bewildered:

"We have chickens here. We make chicken. But it's nothing special," says Zuo Kuanxun, sitting in the shade of his open-front house a few yards from the general's old homestead. As he speaks, a hen wanders in. "You say millions of Americans are familiar with our ancestor?"

His son, Zuo Jingyou, offers this: "It's been forgotten here. We Zuos have all heard stories about it. But did it come from him? We don't know."

"You're telling me there's a chicken dish named in his memory?" says Geng Ermao, proprietress of a family-style restaurant in Changsha, the provincial capital of Hunan. Her face wrinkles. "You say Americans who eat Chinese food are familiar with his name? I don't know of it, and you'd think I'd know."

[Fudgethatkay]

I wouldn't actually say this to her, but this is what I'd like to say: "It's okay, Ms Ignorant Lady, I can't say much for other Asian ethnicities but Korean people are racist to every other race there is. Even other Korean people. I mean, we have a North and South Korea. That's how racist Korean people are."

(I'm Korean and I'm just joking.)

My boyfriend also says this...as serious. (He's also Korean. Made in Bucheon )