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Maybe I am a racist. Life isn't always black and white, and we all get colored by our experiences. For those of you fortunate enough in life to not develope any prejudices, good for you. I don't consider myself particularly prejudiced, sometimes my beliefs don't square up with the facts, and goddamn , I find I'm human. I can accept my faults. There are plenty of other things I disliked about SoCal, as well as plenty of things I did like. I was just particularly perturbed by the lack of English everywhere I went. I appologize, my political incorrectness is showing.
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gunmonkey, there is no need to apologize, this is a free country, and you are free to speak your mind, just as we are free to speak up in response to you.
FWIW, I don't think that you are a racist; I think that you are just expressing what concerns you. But try to understand that stereotyping people is an activity that can be fraught with very undesirable consequences. In our own country, plenty of innocent people have suffered, in a variety of ways, small and large, for the perceived sins of other people who looked like them, or spoke like them. I don't think that we as a nation, are out of the woods yet as far as this issue is concerned.
In our country's history, there have [b]always[/b] been some immigrants who were looked down, feared and despised. In the last century, it was the Irish and the Chinese, in the early part of this century, it was the Italians, and now it is the turn of the Mexicans. Yet in the end, people assimilate, even if it takes a generation or two.