[Regina30133]

I’m half Chinese and half white and I visited London a few months ago. I got quite a few people that, right off the bat, started referring to me as a mixed person and wanted to talk about mixed race politics or Chinese politics and were quite rude. I looked up Brits and racism on usenet (unfortunatly the only way to learn about the general nature short of living there) and found many posts about immigrants that don’t belong in Britan, all the colored people that are ruining the culture, stealing jobs, the ‘lost’ mixed race. Someone mentioned a song called ‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly To The Germans’ which they described as terribly xenophobic but funny and ‘very British’. There is also the Brit actors/comedians/musicians that come over to America and say things like ‘All you Americans have no taste in anything.’ I know a British guy here in New York that is always stereotyping other people and making us all very uncomfortable but he just says he’s being British and continues! Like we’re going to finally find him funny! As someone who has to worry about degrading stereotypes & racism I don’t think I’ll ever find the ‘humour’ in someone saying ‘All these people are always this way.’ What do you think?

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Name : Regina30133, City : New York, State : NY, Country : United States, 

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