tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6014612648817695510.post8358691977589310534..comments2023-10-30T08:37:32.612-07:00Comments on Staci PC's Blog: Anal Retentive Good Ol' Educated American CitizenProf. PChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08316470269554154905noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6014612648817695510.post-57841303540748586842008-09-19T18:14:00.000-07:002008-09-19T18:14:00.000-07:00understandable, I think it is unavoidable since st...understandable, I think it is unavoidable since stereotype is deep-root in America. let me rephrase it, i think it is easier for me to show you instead of make a statment. In my homecountry, our population is consisted of 56 ethnic groups, discrimination or bias (i didn't know the term until i immigrate here) exist in our country (but not that severe). when i was in school, i often seen there were a group of people living in vacant property without anything, their basic appliances were mattress, rice cooker and that is all about it. one time, i pulled my grandma's sleevs and asked "grandma, why don't they go home and stay here camping, there is no amusement park around here" then my grandma replied:"don't go near them, they are from countryside, poor, illiterate and work in the lowest class." I didn't get what they mean but i know that they are not the type of people i want to hang out with, they are poor and illterate (they speak their dialect all the time, they don't speak mandarin or having accent speaking mandarin). ever since the incident, I perceive them as low-class citizens who always work as a hard laborers, dirty work. I heard a lot negative comment on them from my ethnic group (Han, a dominant ethnic group in my country). i bet my grandma would be surprised if one of them could read or write or even speak fluent mandarin. There is another story, I am from southern in which are agriculture concentration and people from Northern are more scholars or well-educated. There are very few kids from Southern China at my age go to college and majority of international students at MSU are from Northern, they were quite surprised that i am going to college when i first met them. I have received such compliment (i would perceive it that way): "girl, you are quite different from those from southern that i met before, you don't even have any accent speaking mandarin (people from southern has a heavy accent speaking mandarin), and you are quite polite and educated." <BR/>generalization is what they did and i know it is very hard to avoid as i did to other minority.Ivy Qhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14065182541727800982noreply@blogger.com