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Generalizing Asian countries is usually as useful as generalizing Canada, the US, and Mexico as just North American countries. There are some extremely high lev
by Larrikin 4y ago
Generalizing Asian countries is usually as useful as generalizing Canada, the US, and Mexico as just North American countries. There are some extremely high level things you can point out, but it's often useless to try and come to conclusions about the group as a whole.
- earthboundkid 4y agoGeneralizing North America is a totally worthwhile thing to do. Why would it not be? They all have legacies of colonialism, racism, Western education, etc. Obviously, Mexico is more like the rest of Central America than the US and Canada, but so what? Japan is more like the Koreas than it is like Cambodia.
- o_1 4y agoYes generalizations are the real solution. Wait weren't those the things that started racism and colonialism...? the things you seemed to be concerned about?
- vorpalhex 4y agoI'm very offended you are generalizing the distinct five regions of Mexico. Or should I be offended you are generalizing Oaxaca as a singular region? When does a pile of sand become a beach?
- earthboundkid 4y agoGeneralization was not the thing that started racism and colonialism. The Europeans started enslaving Africans because there was a taboo against enslaving Christians, and then a bunch of BS pseudoscience combined with natural human xenophobia to make a new monster with a life of its own. Generalization is an important tool for understanding the world. How could we think any thoughts without generalizing?
- purim 4y ago
- Mountain_Skies 4y agoThe show 'Silicon Valley' really hit the nail on the head in the episode where a character was horrified to have been outed as being Christian. Maybe only Donald Trump unites more of the tech community in their hatred.
- purim 4y agoThe other day I was reading a thread about how certain ethnic group ages far slower and make great wives. Then the person mentioned he lived around the US base in Japan. Yet the population of mixed race children who will never see their Western dad in Japan is exploding.
- Der_Einzige 4y agoTake mexico out and add the other anglos and you've got yourself a good an acceptable generalization!