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March 15, 2012 at 10:58 AM #740028March 15, 2012 at 11:13 AM #740029
ocrenter
Participant[quote=Tickles][quote=dumbrenter]Indians are not Asians.
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Really? What are we then?[/quote]
apparently you guys are suppose to be caucasians because of the influx of Aryans from the middle east a few thousand years ago. 🙂
March 15, 2012 at 1:03 PM #740034dumbrenter
ParticipantIndians are not caucasians either.
[quote=ocrenter][quote=Tickles][quote=dumbrenter]Indians are not Asians.
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Really? What are we then?[/quote]
apparently you guys are suppose to be caucasians because of the influx of Aryans from the middle east a few thousand years ago. :)[/quote]
March 15, 2012 at 1:39 PM #740038jstoesz
ParticipantI can’t decide to what degree I should be offended by this thread.
March 15, 2012 at 1:43 PM #740039sdrealtor
ParticipantLately these threads all the look the same to me.
March 15, 2012 at 2:11 PM #740040briansd1
GuestActually, in all the big metropolitan areas, the percentage of immigrants has grown in the last few decades. That’s especially true for California as a whole.
Middle class whites are retreating to places like Spokane, WA and Fort Collins, CO.
Asians stand out because they look different. But there are plenty of people from Russia and Eastern Europe (who look slimmer and dress a better than White native born Americans). Orange County and Los Angeles have a huge population of Iranian Americans.
San Diego and LA has a big population of wealthy Mexicans who have homes here. Go to Fashion Valley and chances are that the well-dressed buyers are Mexican.
Globalization is taking place faster than people can adapt.
It makes sense for a small portion of people around the planet to shelter some of their wealth in America. After all we are still the most politically stable country with the dollar still the world currency. And relative to other countries, our culture is welcoming.
American universities are the best so it makes sense for people to buy houses for their kids to go to school.
American English is the language of business so people want to learn. There’s a cachet about being at ease with world culture.
This is all good as we want to attract the best and the brightest.
March 15, 2012 at 3:08 PM #740046ParticipantNot to mention we want to attract the slimmest and well dressed also
March 15, 2012 at 3:56 PM #740049UCGal
Participant[quote=briansd1]But there are plenty of people from Russia and Eastern Europe (who look slimmer and dress a better than White native born Americans). [/quote]
Head up to the far-northeast section of Philadelphia next time you’re there. Tell me then, that Russians are all slim and stylish… Check out along Bustleton Ave and Red Lion Rd… I have coworkers from that area… they weren’t slim or stylish. Maybe that’s an engineer thing, though.
As for the rest of this thread… I am afraid to comment. Anything I say will be construed as racist. Even this statement will be construed as racist. Even reading it I’ll be called racist.
March 15, 2012 at 4:20 PM #740055an
Participant[quote=UCGal]As for the rest of this thread… I am afraid to comment. Anything I say will be construed as racist. Even this statement will be construed as racist. Even reading it I’ll be called racist.[/quote]
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😀March 15, 2012 at 6:59 PM #740058ParticipantLol, AN
March 22, 2012 at 4:15 PM #740378enron_by_the_sea
Participant[quote=ocrenter][quote=Tickles][quote=dumbrenter]Indians are not Asians.
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Really? What are we then?[/quote]
apparently you guys are suppose to be caucasians because of the influx of Aryans from the middle east a few thousand years ago. :)[/quote]
Interestingly, I learned recently that SCOTUS actually settled this issue way back in 1923!
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Associate Justice George Sutherland found that, while Thind, an Asian Indian, may claim to have “purity of Aryan blood” due to being “born in Village Taragarh Talawa,near Jandiala Guru, Amritsar, Punjab” and having “high caste” status; he was not Caucasian in the “common understanding”, so he could not be included in the “statutory category as white persons”.
[/quote]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Bhagat_Singh_Thind
April 3, 2012 at 10:42 AM #741058DaCounselor
ParticipantInterestng article – thanks for the link flu. I suppose it should be no surprise that immigrants would tend to congregate geographically. In CV there are a couple of elementary schools where the asian demographic is pushing 40%. If my CV realtor friend’s observations are accurate, based on current inflow those numbers will continue to rise.
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