White Guilt: A creation by ourselves

[Azuren]

I agree with Super. Mostly.

Mixing culture is stupid, but I do enjoy coexisting cultures. I live in Austin, TX, and the Asian community here is huge. I love heading down to the Parmer area and grabbing some Vietnamese or Korean, and occasionally grabbing something from Hanaworld (Asian market) to go home and attempt cooking.

But the thing is I go home. To my little house in white suburbia. Where people now their lawns, care about their curb appeal, and drug deals at least have the decency to go down inside with one customer at a time.

This is a stark contrast to White Trash, where no one mows their plans, there's garbage in the yard, and people smoke meth on their front porches.

It's nothing to do with race, btw, it's that seven letter word: culture. But the thing is you see a lot more black teenagers enjoying ebonic and gang culture than you do Japanese girls. So the cultures promote their own profiling, which becomes confused with their racial identity.

I don't hate people prejudiciously based on their skin color, but I'm not going to lie and tell you I don't automatically dislike some people. If you walk up to me at my job with your phone out and try to speak broken English to me so I can help you find some sale item, just so you can incoherently yell at me when it's out of stock 7 hours into the day when we started with ten of that sale item, then fuck you. But if you walk up to me and ask "Hey, do you have this camera in stock?" and say "Alright, I'll have better luck next time" when I tell you we're out, then we're cool.

That has NOTHING to do with race.

If I go to pick up a couch from Craigslist, and it leads me into a neighborhood where kids are walking around with sagging pants and no shirts, do you really think I'm not going to lock my car doors? And when you roll up to the address, and there's a bunch of junk in the lawn and a guy in a dewrag out front smoking a cigarillo, do you think I'm going to stop and pick up that couch? No, I don't want that couch that's probably been the location of intense drug sex. I'll go buy from the nice Asians up the street from me who kept their couch plastic wrapped.