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My grandfather was a poor Asian immigrant who achieved his dream of moving to America. He died in a hospital bitterly refusing to be treated by Black hospital s
by oneoff786 4y ago
My grandfather was a poor Asian immigrant who achieved his dream of moving to America. He died in a hospital bitterly refusing to be treated by Black hospital staff.
My grandmother in law is a sweet lady who also shared the opinion that mixed race marriages are unnatural. I am mixed race but I’m one of the good ones.
Social norms have changed extremely fast. In addition to the lack of ability to interact with things like the internet, it’s so difficult to see value in anyone’s insights when you get nuggets like this.
- lotsofpulp 4y agoIn my family, all the elders apparently became doctors around the ages of 50 to 60, but without having to do any of the reading or working or math credentialed doctors have to do. It is also funny seeing them grapple with daughter in laws having leverage now that they all earn hefty incomes and have no dependency on the elders.
- oneoff786 4y agoThey sound indian
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- tyjen 4y agoYep, I don't believe many would be the quintessential ideal candidate to extract wisdom and most would yield sporadic valuable insights, particularly if they're not adapting well into their advanced years and excessively in discord with changing social norms. It could be a matter of parsing through insights to separate the valuable from the archaic.
- tomc1985 4y agoDon't you think that's more a matter of your attitude than whether these people are effectively worthless? “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” doesn't seem to be fashionable nowadays but it's a valuable piece of wisdom. Cancelling folks with this "lalalala I can't hear you!" attitude, against someone who offends a few sensibilities, is the problem here. People are imperfect, don't be so closed-minded.
- oneoff786 4y agoWell these educated minds haven’t updated their priors in 60 years. If your advice holds true, perhaps there is something we can infer.
- roenxi 4y ago> it’s so difficult to see value in anyone’s insights when you get nuggets like this. We're made of the same stuff as our parents. Both literally and metaphorically. I hope we are including the people with the new norms as "anyone", in time they're going to be just as outdated and embarrassing as every other generation's norms.
- oneoff786 4y agoMaybe. It’s possible that the interconnectivity of the internet will cause future generations to be less rigid. One can hope.