From: Erik Gaderlund (gaderson_at_mac.com)
Date: 2004-02-22 00:35:32
A great term I heard recently from a preacher (3rd-generation Chinese
American) to a mix of races (lots of referring to black, white,
yellow, and brown during the service) and brought up 'Racilization',
it's not as strong as Racism, but, give a better sense of how each
culture tries to mold those around them to be just like
them-definitely a big, but unacknowledged, problem in the Church.
But, I guess living in the SF Bay Area I enjoy the diversity here, I
don't have to be just a 'white' American shopping at Abercrombie &
Fitch, watching Friends, praising our decisive President, and
ignoring those less fortunate than me. There certainly are those
that do, but, I would hope that us younger generations would try and
cross those likes our parents didn't. Just run up to the city and
anyone can get married;)
But, I suppose it all goes to what people are comfortable with, and
since the larger Media seems to have a blind spot when it comes to
those not like them, it's what were stuck with (the irony being the
head of the FCC that is to oversee the Media is Black, who grew up in
the Army one of the more diverse places in American society.)
As for Justin, he does appear to be very talented so why should he
get the gig? They probably want the PR anyway.
erik g
I'm half Swedish and English, and have been back to see my relatives
in Sweden which was an interesting time to see those who chose to
stay. Many of my English relatives were poor working class who
didn't all make it through the Battle of Britain in WWII.
At 03:14 PM -0500 02/21/04, Droski, M. Ted wrote:
>...I'd go so far as to say this is an American epidemic that affects all
>American cultures. Almost every aspect of what used to be considered
>American culture is gone, it's all homogenized for consumption.
>Everything is sterile and has little substance.
>
>The Mom and Pop restaurants have gone away and are replaced by
>McDonalds, and the McDonalds in Detroit is the same as the McDonalds in
>Miami...and so is the Wal-Mart, Target, GAP, Old Navy and Costco.
>
>There is little regional flavor to anything because it's too hard for
>multi national corps to market a variety of products/services to a
>variety of markets, better to make everyone the same and have them all
>consume the same things.
>
>I am 1/2 Syrian (3rd generation out) 1/2 polish, but sadly have no ties
>to my any of my heritage, I'm just an Uh-meri-ken. I think 1st and 2nd
>generation immigrants wanted their children to assimilate into American
>society, which might have been right at the time, but a great cultural
>disservice was done. And aside from early immigrants, I feel like ALL
>Americans in general have just all been assimilated into a bland culture
>from 1960 to present.
>
>It's a hard slope to come back from, all peoples need to have a history.
>I am slowly trying to regain some of my cultural identity, I haven't
>gone so far as to do those genealogy things, but I need to know
>something, anything.
>
>You can't know where you're going, if you don't know where you've been.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bob Davis [mailto:earthjuice_at_prodigy.net]
>
>However it isn't really about the race of Justin Timberlake...
>
>It's a part of a continuing and sad story about a race of people who
>were once proud of their past, used it as a mechanism to inspire their
>children for the future, who have now become "comfortable" in watching
>their history, music, culture and identity being hijacked by profiteers
>disguised as TV producers.
>
>20 years from now, when the history of this period of time is written my
>sincere hope is that when black children read about it, they will hang
>their heads in shame and ask their parents...
>
>"what did YOU do to try and prevent this from happening..."
>
>(and that is my $0.02)