I find that interesting since my children are half asian (not japanese), and the Japanese females can't seem to keep their hands off of them. They must think mixed kids are attractive in the least. I do know they think other Asian races are beneath them and have a serious rivalry with Korea.
Most Asian women I meet seem to like me (not because they are financially interested...I think ). I think they like that someone looks a little bit like them, but is taller and "whiter". Only problem is that I tend to prefer latina girls. But I don't discriminate, Freida Pinto, Halle Berry, Lauryn Hill, Jessica Alba, Megan Fox, Alizee, Eva Mendes, Lucy Liu, Charlize Theron...etc....are all ok in my book .
LOL wut? The city with the most diverse ethnic makeup of any place in the US (and probably the world) is "extremely xenophobic"? I don't think you know what the word "xenophobia" means. Maybe get out of Planet Hollywood next time. Just because I don't like you for clogging up the sidewalk and going on tacky bus tours doesn't mean its because I'm xenophobic, it's just because I'm cooler than you. And secretly I am glad that you are not cluttering up my sacred insider haunts.
You have no idea of which you speak. [edit] LOL Sam! Yeah, maybe he should come to Queens for a weekend!
as a manhattanite i used to always have a deep antipathy for all the visiting tourists especially the ones from the other boroughs and new jersey
Couple places that haven't been mentioned: Australia is xenophobic to ugly people (in the big cities), moreso than any other country I've been to. Extremely shallow culture and it's a really fun place as a result. New Zealand and Fiji on the other hand are extremely down to earth and welcoming to everyone. Going back to Eastern Europe end of this month, has to be the least xenophobic place when it comes to women. They prefer anyone over their own men.
I think Southern California has some of the same melting-pot-in-theory elements. There's internal movement between bourgeois in their own mind and proles and they work to have that line of distinction laid out, but without actually saying it. Cuz that might damage the politically correct social portfolio. Otherwise Southern Cali is similar to Texas. Seems as long as you don't take the jobs and infringe on cultural norms than people can get along at least OKAY not great. But better than violently.
I wouldn't say NYC is a xenophobic place but I would say that it is very segregated and subtly racist. Different races and groups stick to their own (white people included), which is quite sad for such a large and diverse city.
The North is FAR more segregated than the South, even amongst white people. The North is full of traditionally black, Puerto Rican, Chinese, Italian, Polish, and Irish neighborhoods, and any other race/cultural distinction you can think of, such as Catholic and Protestant neighborhoods. The segregated aspect doesn't necessarily equate to racist, but when the immigrants arrived all those years ago, they pretty much sought their own people amongst whom to live. Bill Russell and many other black athletes have said that Boston is a very racist place....I've always found it interesting that the South takes so much heat while no one seems to take notice of segregation and racism in the North.
It is a different type of racism. In the South, people are going to hang confederate flags in the front yard and call you racial slurs and burn crosses in your front yard. This is blatant racism. In the North, because it is so segregated, people judge other racial groups based on stereotypes and by the color of the skin. In Houston, my classmates and neighbors were mostly Hispanic, White and Black. Up North, you are probably living/going to school with mostly White people, mostly Asian people, or mostly Black and Hispanic people so there is less interaction with other ethnic groups. So people say things or do things that are racist, but they don't even realize they are saying things that are racist. For example, I've had non-Asian classmates and co-workers (white collar job environment) ask me if I eat dog because I'm Asian and I'm like, "Really? Are you serious?" or they will mock how Asian immigrants speak English and they wonder why I don't find it funny.
I get the impression New Yorkers are more rude than xenophobic. And the rudeness comes from being crammed with people all the time.
Love the bolded part. You speak as though it's a daily, to be expected occurrence. "I better hurry and get to the store before the Klan comes to set my yard on fire...." Anyway, I didn't say much of anything about racism, except to acknowledge that it exists in the North, which many people apparently don't realize, and that the North is more segregated due to, in large part, the reasons I outlined above, the whole point being that xenophobic assholes exist everywhere in all sizes, shapes, and colors, but that the US, as a whole, is one of the least xenophobic places in the world. But whatever. Here, you can read a tale about Rill Russell having is Boston home broken into. They scrawled racist graffiti in his home, damaged his trophies, and s**t in his beds. That's just one example. But you go ahead and keep thinking the North's hands are clean or that they're "different" if it suits you.
You're really using a single event from 1968 to illustrate your point of the North being racist? I don't disagree that there's racial segregation and racism in the North (I think there's less so than what you'll find in the South, based on personal experience), but come on. That's basso-esque.
Judging by her popularity, Japanese guys don't seem to mind Leah Dizon (half asian celebrity) either. Spoiler
Please. He said the racism up North was "different," which sounded an awful lot like he was excusing it. In thinking that, I was probably wrong. Growing up in Houston I've been surrounded by every race, culture, religion, and language for as long as I can remember, the same with every friend I've ever had. People cite the South as this great bastion of redneck racism (I don't really consider Texas as "the South," but that's another discussion) and it pisses me off to no end. I'm not making excuses for anything. I'm just citing a documented example of racism/xenophobia up North. Racism exists. It sucks. That is all.
But you cited an example of racism in which a basketball player's house was vandalized in the 1960s. Around that same time, there were civil rights activists getting lynched in Mississippi. If anything, doesn't your example support his assertion that racism in the north is "different"?
