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I'm not from America - care to explain?

by Paul_S 11y ago

supercoder 11y ago
Because Koreans make great fried chicken.
- swalsh 11y ago
  That wasn't the original stereotype he was describing, but koreans DO make great fried chicken. I'll take BonChon over KFC any day.
300bps 11y ago
Stereotype of African Americans is that they eat a lot of fried chicken so essentially this report would imply it is African Americans that make for a bad neighborhood.
- deleted 11y ago
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- programmernews3 11y ago
  I think you mean black people
  - BossHogg 11y ago
    No African American is perfectly fine.
    - Turing_Machine 11y ago
      The first sentence of the article begins "Whilst searching for a flat in London..." I'm pretty sure that African American is not perfectly fine in this particular context.
jamescun 11y ago
I'm not an American, but I believe they are referring to the racist meme that associates fried chicken to Americans of non-white ethnicities. This differs from the UK where fried chicken is more associated with the lower classes than a particular race.
- mahouse 11y ago
  And also coffee shops are associated to white people.
  - vblord 11y ago
    Wait. I must not have gotten the memo. I hate coffee and love fried chicken.
    - mahouse 11y ago
      http://www.ars.usda.gov/SP2UserFiles/Place/80400530/pdf/DBrief/6_beverage_choices_adults_0708.pdf http://www.ars.usda.gov/SP2UserFiles/Place/80400530/pdf/DBri... >white American adults drink about three times as much coffee as blacks.
    - jessaustin 11y ago
      White people with taste often have the same tastes as black people. 'Twas ever thus.
  - zapu 11y ago
    I'm not sure why this is getting downvoted. We are talking about stereotypes here, and this is clearly a stereotype that's around - see the "hipster in coffee bar" "memes" in which portrayed people are exclusively white.
  - strommen 11y ago
    As Shaq says, "black people don't drink coffee" http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/shaquille-o-neal-black-people-don-drink-coffee-article-1.2360737 http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/shaquille-o-...

I'm not from America - care to explain?

by Paul_S 11y ago

I'm not from America - care to explain?

supercoder 11y ago

Because Koreans make great fried chicken.

swalsh 11y ago
That wasn't the original stereotype he was describing, but koreans DO make great fried chicken. I'll take BonChon over KFC any day.

300bps 11y ago

Stereotype of African Americans is that they eat a lot of fried chicken so essentially this report would imply it is African Americans that make for a bad neighborhood.

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programmernews3 11y ago
I think you mean black people
- BossHogg 11y ago
  No African American is perfectly fine.
  - Turing_Machine 11y ago
    The first sentence of the article begins "Whilst searching for a flat in London..." I'm pretty sure that African American is not perfectly fine in this particular context.

jamescun 11y ago

I'm not an American, but I believe they are referring to the racist meme that associates fried chicken to Americans of non-white ethnicities. This differs from the UK where fried chicken is more associated with the lower classes than a particular race.

mahouse 11y ago
And also coffee shops are associated to white people.
- vblord 11y ago
  Wait. I must not have gotten the memo. I hate coffee and love fried chicken.
  - mahouse 11y ago
    http://www.ars.usda.gov/SP2UserFiles/Place/80400530/pdf/DBrief/6_beverage_choices_adults_0708.pdf http://www.ars.usda.gov/SP2UserFiles/Place/80400530/pdf/DBri... >white American adults drink about three times as much coffee as blacks.
  - jessaustin 11y ago
    White people with taste often have the same tastes as black people. 'Twas ever thus.
- zapu 11y ago
  I'm not sure why this is getting downvoted. We are talking about stereotypes here, and this is clearly a stereotype that's around - see the "hipster in coffee bar" "memes" in which portrayed people are exclusively white.
- strommen 11y ago
  As Shaq says, "black people don't drink coffee" http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/shaquille-o-neal-black-people-don-drink-coffee-article-1.2360737 http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/shaquille-o-...