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Re:Interracial Roommates Can Reduce Prejudice by amichail on Tuesday July 07, 2009 @10:51PM (#693105)
Isn't this a racist statement? "...but those who roomed with Asian-Americans, the group that scored the highest on measures of prejudice, became more prejudiced themselves."
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Re:Interracial Roommates Can Reduce Prejudice by nostrademons on Tuesday July 07, 2009 @10:56PM (#693114)
It's factual. They phrased it as "scored the highest on measures of prejudice...", not "most racist..."

I wouldn't be surprised if it's true as well. For a minority group, Asian-Americans can be surprisingly racist.

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Re:Interracial Roommates Can Reduce Prejudice by dkarl on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @01:19AM (#693330)
For a minority group, Asian-Americans can be surprisingly racist.

Especially against each other. Nothing like telling your Korean friend how much you enjoy visiting Japan and watching Miyazaki and Juzo Itami's movies to stir up some good old-fashioned hatred. "They raped my grandmother. They're not human. They don't have souls." And then you have to pretend to like Oldboy to calm them down.

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Re:Interracial Roommates Can Reduce Prejudice by nostrademons on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @02:15AM (#693420)
Against themselves too. My friend started a FaceBook group called "Ambivalent Asians - for all the self-hating Orientals out there". (He is half-Chinese and half-Japanese, so perhaps he just got both heapings of racism mixed up in the same person...)
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Re:Interracial Roommates Can Reduce Prejudice by anigbrowl on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @12:11AM (#693230)
'Minority' status is very local. Globally, Asians are in the majority - and indeed, have lately become so here in San Francisco too. I left for a few years in 1999 and when I came back 5 years later I noticed the demographic shift on the first day.
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Re:Interracial Roommates Can Reduce Prejudice by mojaam on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @12:30AM (#693257)
Speaking from experience, that makes a lot of sense. I go to a university with a very large percentage of Asians and every group seemed to stick to their own group it seems not that there's anything wrong with that.
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