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Originally Posted by Blushing Heliophobe
I think it's a natural human instinct to assume certain things about people from the way they look. It's also natural, I think, for some people who understand certain boundaries to poke fun at race sterotypes or enjoy humor between themselves.
But, if you aren't sure if certain jokes are okay, you should ask. If you say something offensive, apologize.
I just don't get it - how hard can it fucking be?
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A big part of it is how they are raised. I'm from a very small town in Newfoundland, everybody there is white. I remember in grade one or two when they were trying to teach us about tolerance, a guy piped up about how Chinese people suck becaue his dad told him so. I've heard very little kids use racists slurs. One of my childhood friends is now a skinhead (yikes). It didn't get better until we got sent to a bigger school in another town, where there were lots of people from different ethnic backgrounds, and even then it was still pretty bad. Now that I think of it, only a few people from my hometown mingled with them at all.
A couple of years ago we had to read a book called Random Passage, which was about European settler that came to Newfoundland. I got upset when they killed a Beothuk, which were the natives that lived here. The Beothuks were wiped out by settlers, there are non today. I was talking about this with a friend of mine, and he said it was probably better that way so we don't have to take care of them, and all they would do is sniff gas. I lost a lot of respect for him that day.