Comments on: Black, White, Mexican, Chinese

By: Asian Death Stare

Asian Death Stare — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 18:17:47 +0000

I honestly do not give much thought to this topic, and my personal opinions have changed with age and experience. I agree with the closing sentiment of your article “Treat people as individuals”. To that end, I treat each honest mistake or incident of racial confusion I encounter based on the individual circumstances. Some people want to learn, some people aren’t capable of learning, and I try to be mindful that my interaction may be that person’s only (positive?) face time with a Korean American that month, or year, or possibly ever.

As a Korean adoptee my own background and sensitivity to identity might be much different from a Korean raised by a Korean family in America (or anywhere). You mentioned your wife did not agree with this article. I would be interested to hear her criticisms.

By: Eric (Shepherd) Mao

Eric (Shepherd) Mao — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 06:08:02 +0000

Why do you set the bar at the junior college level?

By: Eric (Shepherd) Mao

Eric (Shepherd) Mao — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 06:05:25 +0000

You taught me how to spell a county’s name. You can call me anything you want, Sir.

By: pass port

pass port — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 17:40:41 +0000

Reply to your comment regarding:
Race’s Role in Economic Fate
Wall Street Journal
September 20, 2012
By DAVID WESSEL
The answer is obvious and fully explained in the 1994 book “The Bell Curve – Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life” by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Curve
Africans are at the bottom of the IQ Curve.
Solution: Mandatory universal sterilization at age 12. Untie the tubes at age 23 only if they are educated to the Junior college level, married, pass an able parent test and employable.
“Make no babies until you are qualified.”

By: European American

European American — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 21:46:01 +0000

Ancestry is important because we do not materialize out of thin air. There have been many people who suffered or sacrificed their lives for us. If you want to throw away all that, you can do it. But some of us want to observe our history and learn from it, and be inspired by it.

By the way, all this discussion is completely false, because the issue is LOW INTELLECTUAL STANDARDS. If you have such a low IQ that you get a mental block from differentiating between Taiwan and Thailand, Costa Rica and Colombia etc. then we are having the wrong discussion.

One more thing,Colombia is spelled with an ‘o’; not Columbia.
Go back to school you dimwits, and stop rationalizing your ignorance and low standards.

“E Pluribus Unum” does not mean that we will all become a faceless mass of morons.

By: Eric (Shepherd) Mao

Eric (Shepherd) Mao — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 04:29:59 +0000

Jose,

“Latinos or Asians”–you mean Mexicans or Chinese?

By: Jose Calabro

Jose Calabro — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 04:28:55 +0000

(In response to the question “Would we be better off without race?” posted on WSJ along with this article) No, we woudn’t. The strip clubs would be less interesting and all the music would sound like Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen. And people in racially homogenous parts of the world still fail to get along with each other. Look at the deep tribal animosities in Africa or the Middle East. Look at how various Latinos or Asians view each other as adversaries simply because of a line on the map type barrier. Look at the North and South in the US Civil War. Look at the feuds between the McCoys and the Hatfields. Those folks were probably identical to the last base in their chromosomes – no offense to Virginia/Kentucky – yet they still found a source of animosity.

By: Eric (Shepherd) Mao

Eric (Shepherd) Mao — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 20:16:22 +0000

Gary,

I appreciate your personal experience.

What I say in my article is my ideal; on the other hand, I understand the perception of race, however arbitrary and subjective by nature, will always be here. And someone will always find it expedient in personal affairs or in politics. If we are lucky, we would just be stuck with identity politics and some discrimination. In extremely unfortunate cases in history, however, race ultimately led to civil wars or genocides.