Russell Peters...
If anyone wants to listen to a funny Indian comedian, check this out. The Chinese accent kills me! BE A MAN. DO THE RIGHT THING. The bit about Indians and Chinese not being able to work together, well! He also has a little bit how in 300 years there will be no more black or white folks...Instead, everyone will be tan because of mixing.
"The world is mixing and there is nothing you can do about it. Eventually we're all gonna be some hybrid mix of Chinese and Indian. It's inevitable. They're the two largest populations in the world. So you can run from us now, but sooner or later, we're gonna hump you."
He also listed some "interesting mixes" he liked to see more of:
Hook up an Italian and a Jamican = Pastafarians
Indian and Jewish =Hinjews
a chick from the Phillipines and guy from Holland=Hollapinos
Cuban and Iceland =Ice Cubes
French and Greek =Freek"
Those are some exotic half-breeds indeed!
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Ha! Russel Peters - can't believe you only discovered him now (despite being in LA for this long)!
Reminds me of a movie Omar was telling me about - with Kiera Knightly as a female bounty hunter. Never seen the movie ("Domino"), but the mixed-race part goes something like this...
[On the Jerry Springer Show]
Lateesha Rodriguez: Take a look at this...
[she unveils the chart]
Lateesha Rodriguez: Blactino, blackasian, hispasian, OK? Now, for the Asian subcategories,
[to the Chinegro woman]
Lateesha Rodriguez: I got you, sister. We have chinegro right here. That's you. Chinegro.
Chinegro Woman: That's not a word! That's not a word!
Lateesha Rodriguez: Yes, it is, sister. We have koreagro. Japegro, OK?
[Crowd laughs]
Lateesha Rodriguez: Chispanic, koreaspanic, and last but not least, check this out, y'all... japanic.
[Crowd cheering]
Lateesha Rodriguez: That's how I flow with it!
Jerry Springer: Do you believe the government should recognise these racial subgroups?
Lateesha Rodriguez: Yes, Jerry, I do.
11:33 AM
I still don't understand why race is such a big deal in the U.S., and why people need expressions for mixed people in order to categorize them.
Nevertheless, these "categories" are quite funny.
1:14 PM
haha oh baby, baby it's a wild world!
contrary to what anyone says, race is still a big deal everywhere. in every city of every country people are being stereotyped by their race. maybe its a bigger deal here in the US because we have every kind of race imaginable, and they're all supposed to be "equal" (although I don't know how many minorities would agree with that). Everyone wants to be equally recognized. Or, maybe we're just a little bit more childish and not as mature as some of our european counterparts:), like when a sex-scandal breaks and the media turns into a high-school hallway;)
1:31 PM
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2:04 PM
LOL
But for me, it starts before that. (I think I've talked about this on nomadlife before...) It starts with the word "race". We don't use that word anymore here, only for animals...or at least in German language nobody speaks of race anymore (wonder if we still would if it hadn't been for you know who). And I'm quite sure nobody speaks of "race" in French language either. And Chinese, Korean, Japanese...those aren't races :-) I even doubt if you can call Asian a race (or African, Latin American etc. And Caucasian? Puh-lease LOL)
Besides that, maybe Europeans are more "mature" when it comes to "race" or whatever and whatchamacallit, but I don't think we are when it comes to Religion: In Switzerland for example, I still see many official forms that only give you the choice of marking either "protestant" or "catholic" :-) Just two days ago I applied for a job with a security company, and one question was: "confession", or "Konfession" in German. I don't think you can use this word in English the way it's used here. "confession" in French asks you for what kind of Christian you are, i.e. protestant or catholic LOL What should I have written if I had another religion? Oh dear...
What's quite cool about being mixed and not having any official category for it is that you can people you're from X, Y or Z and they believe you because to them, that's what you look like. I've already "been" Thai, Indian, Mexican, Peruvian, Native American, Algerian, Inuit...LOL Can come in quite handy ;-)
2:09 PM
Some of my friends have started to use coffee terms in order to express what kind of mix someone is (I have loads of mixed friends). For example you could be a "latte macchiato", a "café au lait", an espresso and so on :-) It's a more fun approach, even though it's using colors of skin again...
Oh and yes, Europeans easy-going with sex, that's quite true ... We're OLDER after all :-D
2:20 PM
note to self: plan permanant move to europe ASAP.
3:23 PM
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