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The Ghost of RubangB on 18 March 2009
Louie said:
The Ghost of RubangB said:
Louie said:
@ Rubang: Thanks for the video

But this surely wasn't intentional. I'm german and I've never heard of that stereotype (and most of my friends neither) so you can be pretty sure the company didn't. Especially considering that germany loves Obama and our society has rapidly changed after the second world war. There are 15 million people with an immigrant background living in germany and a total of 80 million inhabitants, the immigrant group getting bigger and the native population shrinking. Believe me it wasn't intentional.

Oh damn.  Well in that case I guess you guys are just better people than us.  Awesome!

Err it wasn't my intention to tell you that we're superior to you which is definitely not true. But that stereotype really isn't that common in germany, that's all. The rest of my post was just to point out to you that the germans are in favour of Obama (which might be a good thing or not) and germany accepted that it is an immigration country (which means it is more open towards different cultures than 20 years ago). I know we're not better people than you guys. Germany is quite americanized actually Of course there are prejudices and stereotypes in germany, not less than in any other country, but the biggest groups of immigrants in germany are from Turkey and Russia so people rather stereotype them.

Sorry if I sounded like a jerk in that post

Oh shit.  Sorry.  I was the jerk.  I typed that really fast and didn't proofread it and realize how bad it came off.  I didn' mean to word it that way to make it into a "superior Germans" joke.  I really thought it was awesome that you guys were so innocent you hadn't even heard of this stereotype.  I've heard it a million times in the U.S.

I'm not still holding a grudge from the 40's.  I don't know what I'd do without my German cinema of the 20's and today, and my krautrock.

America used to love everything about Germany.  I read in my linguistics class that before World War 1, 25% of U.S. high school students were studying German, and since WW1 that number hasn't passed 2%.  Americans looooove their century-long grudges.  I have no idea why.



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akuma587 on 18 March 2009

I'd eat that chicken.



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Kasz216 on 18 March 2009
mjc2021 said:
I wanna photoshop some sort of Obama watermelon and grape soda, but I'm just too lazy to put the effort right now.

Why not just a picture of the "Obama Bucks."

 



Kasz216 on 18 March 2009
Louie said:
According to one of our mods the stereotype is that african american like fried chicken is that true? I really never heard of that one and I have two black friends... I've heard about the watermelon one though... but I'm really not into stereotypes they're silly anyways.

Most people love fried chicken... so it's true.

Though don't expect to see many black people at a KFC.  A lot of African Americans avoid it in favor of other places due to well...

A lot of people assume he was a racist because he was from the south and looks like a southern gentlemen.

http://www.snopes.com/business/alliance/sanders.asp



mmnin on 19 March 2009

Church's Chicken is pretty popular.

man I want some chicken.




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Tyrannical on 19 March 2009

Grocery stores have St. Patrick's day sales on corn beef, no one complains.

Grocery stores have a MLK day fried chicken sale, there'd be a riot.



Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
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The Ghost of RubangB on 19 March 2009
Tyrannical said:

Grocery stores have St. Patrick's day sales on corn beef, no one complains.
Grocery stores have a MLK day fried chicken sale, there'd be a riot.

One is a celebration of culture.

One is an insult.

You already know which is which.

Why does this bother you?



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Tyrannical on 19 March 2009
The Ghost of RubangB said:
Tyrannical said:

Grocery stores have St. Patrick's day sales on corn beef, no one complains.
Grocery stores have a MLK day fried chicken sale, there'd be a riot.

One is a celebration of culture.

One is an insult.

You already know which is which.

Why does this bother you?

Tell me, which is which?

Corn Beef is not a traditional Irish food. Poor Irish immigrants in the US were introduced to it by Jews. It's a Jewish food, not Irish.

 



Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
 — Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire

The Ghost of RubangB on 19 March 2009
Tyrannical said:
The Ghost of RubangB said:
Tyrannical said:

Grocery stores have St. Patrick's day sales on corn beef, no one complains.
Grocery stores have a MLK day fried chicken sale, there'd be a riot.

One is a celebration of culture.

One is an insult.

You already know which is which.

Why does this bother you?

Tell me, which is which?

Corn Beef is not a traditional Irish food. Poor Irish immigrants in the US were introduced to it by Jews. It's a Jewish food, not Irish.

Corn beef is not a traditional Irish food, but I hope you're not implying that fried chicken is a traditional African food.

However, corn beef has become a traditional Irish-American food.  It doesn't matter who introduced it to them.  (We call spaghetti Italian even though it came from China.)  They adopted it, they serve it with their own traditional Irish cabbage, and on one day a year everybody wears green, eats corn beef and cabbage, and drinks Guinness.  Do you know of any Irish-Americans that are insulted by St. Patrick's Day?  It's a fun party holiday.

On the other hand, if African-Americans don't want a holiday where we all dress black and eat KFC, what's the problem with that?  MLK Day is a celebration of a civil rights activist, and it has no celebratory meal.  It's not a fun party holiday.

So far it sounds like your issue is that African-Americans aren't "good sports" like Irish-Americans are.

 

But you didn't answer my question.  Why does it bother you that one ethnicity-food relation is a celebration and the other is an insult?  And why do you care?  Is it okay for people to be different, and for them to have different feelings?

 



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Kasz216 on 19 March 2009
The Ghost of RubangB said:
Tyrannical said:
The Ghost of RubangB said:
Tyrannical said:

Grocery stores have St. Patrick's day sales on corn beef, no one complains.
Grocery stores have a MLK day fried chicken sale, there'd be a riot.

One is a celebration of culture.

One is an insult.

You already know which is which.

Why does this bother you?

Tell me, which is which?

Corn Beef is not a traditional Irish food. Poor Irish immigrants in the US were introduced to it by Jews. It's a Jewish food, not Irish.

Corn beef is not a traditional Irish food, but I hope you're not implying that fried chicken is a traditional African food.

However, corn beef has become a traditional Irish-American food.  It doesn't matter who introduced it to them.  (We call spaghetti Italian even though it came from China.)  They adopted it, they serve it with their own traditional Irish cabbage, and on one day a year everybody wears green, eats corn beef and cabbage, and drinks Guinness.  Do you know of any Irish-Americans that are insulted by St. Patrick's Day?  It's a fun party holiday.

On the other hand, if African-Americans don't want a holiday where we all dress black and eat KFC, what's the problem with that?  MLK Day is a celebration of a civil rights activist, and it has no celebratory meal.  It's not a fun party holiday.

So far it sounds like your issue is that African-Americans aren't "good sports" like Irish-Americans are.

 

But you didn't answer my question.  Why does it bother you that one ethnicity-food relation is a celebration and the other is an insult?  And why do you care?  Is it okay for people to be different, and for them to have different feelings?

 

Actually Saint Patricks day is supposed to be Irish Thanksgiving.

Americans just fucked it up.