[quote]method_man wrote:
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
Your words reek of a white man throwing out quotes that stereotype blacks… just like HeadHunter does here with his Clip11 character. You’re not black. You’re a white guy with racist tendencies. You’re too over-the-top while being inconsistent.
You’re not fooling me, whitey.[/quote]
You should change your first name to Mental.
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Wow. Clever.
< ------------loves all the peoples of many races, creeds and colors. specially Dwarfs…they smells like cookies.
lol
[quote]gregron wrote:
Anyone who bought method mans comments got trolled hard.[/quote]
Called it.
[quote]Edgy wrote:
< ------------loves all the peoples of many races, creeds and colors. specially Dwarfs…they smells like cookies.[/quote]
Iron Dwarf Crumbles - almost too good to chew!
(you have to say it with a mock ‘jingle’ rhythm =P)
Has anybody read the book Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond?
What follows is a brief synopsis.
The book attempts to explain why Eurasian civilizations (in which he includes North Africa) have survived and conquered others, while refuting the assumption that Eurasian hegemony is due to any form of Eurasian intellectual, moral or inherent genetic superiority. Diamond argues that the gaps in power and technology between human societies originate in environmental differences, which are amplified by various positive feedback loops.
When cultural or genetic differences have favored Eurasians (for example, written language or the development among Eurasians of resistance to endemic diseases), he asserts that these advantages occurred because of the influence of geography on societies and cultures, and were not inherent in the Eurasian genomes.
I highly recommend a read of this.
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]method_man wrote:
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
Your words reek of a white man throwing out quotes that stereotype blacks… just like HeadHunter does here with his Clip11 character. You’re not black. You’re a white guy with racist tendencies. You’re too over-the-top while being inconsistent.
You’re not fooling me, whitey.[/quote]
You should change your first name to Mental.
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Wow. Clever.
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But that would be like…you know… just MENTAL.
[quote]Cheeky_Kea wrote:
Has anybody read the book Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond?
What follows is a brief synopsis.
The book attempts to explain why Eurasian civilizations (in which he includes North Africa) have survived and conquered others, while refuting the assumption that Eurasian hegemony is due to any form of Eurasian intellectual, moral or inherent genetic superiority. Diamond argues that the gaps in power and technology between human societies originate in environmental differences, which are amplified by various positive feedback loops. When cultural or genetic differences have favored Eurasians (for example, written language or the development among Eurasians of resistance to endemic diseases), he asserts that these advantages occurred because of the influence of geography on societies and cultures, and were not inherent in the Eurasian genomes.
I highly recommend a read of this.
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It is not that easy because for whatever reason Eurasian cultures have developed a lot of cultural techniques first, they were longer exposed to it and at least in Europe, due to its rather dividing geography, those ideas had to compete.
Whatever you call that when a culture has escaped voodoo and tribalism, it certainly bestows some advantages on the battlefield.
[quote]Cheeky_Kea wrote:
Has anybody read the book Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond?
What follows is a brief synopsis.
The book attempts to explain why Eurasian civilizations (in which he includes North Africa) have survived and conquered others, while refuting the assumption that Eurasian hegemony is due to any form of Eurasian intellectual, moral or inherent genetic superiority. Diamond argues that the gaps in power and technology between human societies originate in environmental differences, which are amplified by various positive feedback loops. When cultural or genetic differences have favored Eurasians (for example, written language or the development among Eurasians of resistance to endemic diseases), he asserts that these advantages occurred because of the influence of geography on societies and cultures, and were not inherent in the Eurasian genomes.
I highly recommend a read of this.
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I liked his book The Third Chimpanzee but I couldn’t get into Guns, Germs and Steel. It felt like reading a school textbook.
[quote]postholedigger wrote:
[quote]Cortes wrote:
[quote]Gambit_Lost wrote:
[quote]Cortes wrote:
[quote]Chushin wrote:
Here in Japan, bi-racial kids are considered “half.” :-([/quote]
My son is “half,” and Japanese are fascinated by this. They honestly have no clue how offensive it is. I take every single opportunity to inform them of this, and let them know that he is one whole human being. Indeed, being that he is both American and Japanese, we’re all “half,” compared to him.
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I do this too. It’s one of those things that just gets to me. I try to be nice, but I know I’m too direct sometimes. One good thing about my language capacities increasing is that I almost never get the “you just don’t understand the language” response anymore. Might I ask how you deal with it specifically? [/quote]
I specifically say that I don’t like that word, he is a whole human being, not half of one. I am very polite but also very direct and immediate about it which is my benefit as an American with good command of Japanese. It annoys me that he’s going to be called that as he gets older but I’ll be doing plenty of talking with him, too, and luckily, even at two years old, he is clearly very adaptable and resilient and I’m not too worried about him.
After more than 9 years here, I am still dumbfounded by the ignorance at certain things Japanese people believe and then actually even say about people who are “outsiders.” It is a supreme irony that in one of the “politest” societies in the world it would be okay for a woman to say, “I want to marry a gaijin so I can have a half baby.” WTF?
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Wow, I didn’t see it that way when I was there. I always took it as half/half. Kinda like when someone offhandedly says, “you dance good! Are you black?”, “well I’m half”. As with many things in Japanese/English language crossovers “half/half” got shortened or combined to “half”. At least they didn’t shorten or combine it further or differently and make the kid a mockery by calling him a “ha” or a “haha”.[/quote]
This is more-or-less what I meant by the “you just don’t understand the language” response. While I give you some credit for saying it is your way of seeing, I just don’t think it’s true. For the record, the mini-language lesson is tiresome even for me, and I don’t have nearly as much language capacity as the others you are responding to here.
[quote]Cortes wrote:
It’s still an overt focus upon his race as something strange and different. It is also exclusive language, and the Japanese are notorious for their heavily colored perceptions of in- and out- groups. On some level, however deep, he is being viewed as an “other.”
Now I don’t want to get all Edward Said on us here, and I will readily admit that there are actually benefits conferred, as well. There is a perception in Japanese society that “half” people are more beautiful and sometimes smarter than “regular” Japanese (when, for example, they speak two languages at the native level). Either way, though, I don’t like it. He’s not half-this or quarter-that. He’s just a little boy. Same as anyone else in any area that really matters. [/quote]
Again, Cortes responded better than I could have. This is my experience exactly. I have yet to meet educated parents of a “mix” in my generation who use or like that term. I think that that does say something.
One quick anecdote. When the earthquake hit, a “mix” acquaintance of mine and her white friend fled to Kansai. Twice they were refused service because they were “non-Japanese.” This was not an issue of language or misunderstanding, the “half” is literally working as a translator.
For the semantics of the word, I’ll leave that to others who are unquestionably more qualified to answer (both chushin and cortes have FAR more language capacity and time in country than I).
Method Man could you please post in the bodybuilding forum, at least one post or something, I mean all your posts are in this thread or one about rappers or some Eminem thread.
How do you train?!?!?!
[quote]Nards wrote:
Method Man could you please post in the bodybuilding forum, at least one post or something, I mean all your posts are in this thread or one about rappers or some Eminem thread.
How do you train?!?!?![/quote]
Who cares how he trains (although I see what you’re doing, Nards)?
He’s a white guy on a troll mission. And unless he proves otherwise, no one should give this idiot any attention.
Maybe it’s time to use this:
I like how the Rooster Police put a stop to this rabbit fight!
That one is so fucking cute!
[quote]orion wrote:
[quote]Cheeky_Kea wrote:
Has anybody read the book Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond?
What follows is a brief synopsis.
The book attempts to explain why Eurasian civilizations (in which he includes North Africa) have survived and conquered others, while refuting the assumption that Eurasian hegemony is due to any form of Eurasian intellectual, moral or inherent genetic superiority. Diamond argues that the gaps in power and technology between human societies originate in environmental differences, which are amplified by various positive feedback loops. When cultural or genetic differences have favored Eurasians (for example, written language or the development among Eurasians of resistance to endemic diseases), he asserts that these advantages occurred because of the influence of geography on societies and cultures, and were not inherent in the Eurasian genomes.
I highly recommend a read of this.
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It is not that easy because for whatever reason Eurasian cultures have developed a lot of cultural techniques first, they were longer exposed to it and at least in Europe, due to its rather dividing geography, those ideas had to compete.
Whatever you call that when a culture has escaped voodoo and tribalism, it certainly bestows some advantages on the battlefield.[/quote]
A bit chicken and egg I suppose.
It is exactly his argument that the cultural techniques arose from hitting the geographical jackpot and not the other way around.
When the Conquistadors hit Sth America the natives had never even seen a horse before in their lives let alone armour, gunpowder weapons and big fuck off ships.
This along with their mates small pox, chicken pox, and measles were all the advantages on the battlefield they needed, irrespective of avoidance of voodooism and tribalism.
^^LMAO
[quote]Grneyes wrote:
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I got a great idea. Let’s round ya’ll up, restrict you to reservations just like the Indians and give you the same benefits they get. That sound like a good plan to you?[/quote]
The government doesn’t “restrict” Indians to reservations. Ask yourself this question: why is it that the government gave them reservations and casinos? Think maybe, just maybe, the white man was trying to make up a little for fucking them over?
[quote]SkyzykS wrote:
Damn right, sucker.
My grandparents and those before them weren’t even in this country until the early 1900’s, so I and millions of others whos parents and grand parents immigrated to this country long after slavery don’t owe anybody a damn thing.
Hahaha. You ain’t gettin none.
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White America was built off of slave labor.