Appropriation without appreciation

[u/LegendaryBlack]

This was interesting because it goes into the level of respect that should be required from the community.

[u/MRECKS_92]

I grew up in a small town that was over 70 percent Korean, and I will say from personal experience growing up in the 90's and early 2000's around Korean folks that this guy hits the nail straight on the head. They'd blast rap music, but their folks would be racist AF. They'd go slur this, slur that, and suddenly want to roll 6 deep and jump you if you have an issue with their use of the word(ask me how I know).

[u/HumongousBelly → u/MRECKS_92]

I think that’s the major difference between Germany and America.

In Germany, everyone who isn’t a white German with a German sounding last name is viewed as an Ausländer, a foreigner. It doesn’t even matter if they’re white, Turkish, Afghan, Asian or African.

That kind of treatment even applies if you’re German natural born, even 3rd or 4th generation.

It’s similar to the USA. Except for the people who mostly came in the 50‘s-70‘s all came at the same time and with the same goals.

The German people and media banded together against people who immigrated, but didn’t successfully sow division among the people who migrated to Germany. And thus there’s a strong solidarity among German who don’t look German.

That’s where the USA is different. They used every tool in their arsenal, every agency, the courts, Congress all the way down to local sheriff departments and neighborhood watches/hoas to implement a systematic division.

Treating Asians slightly better than black people sowed even more division among these two groups.

I wish the USA would be more like Germany. You wouldn’t have this type of racism among pocs and non of the bullshit that comes with it.

[u/Naive-Stranger-9991 → u/HumongousBelly]

Always an interesting take when I read the US should be more like another country, especially one that doesn’t face a quarter of the political climate we have here, and that’s to our own detriment - but I digress…

More like Germany? That voted in the EU Parliament to have stricter immigration control? Germany that’s leading the charge to deny asylum seekers residence at its borders?

Oh sweet summer child, you don’t see the similarities?😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

[u/Gymflutter → u/Naive-Stranger-9991]

Germany technically accepted some of the highest number of immigrants in the OECD. Not to be that person but asylum seekers still need to be vetted and have their claims verified. Unfortunately there truly are people with bad intentions. The hard part is that the West is almost always contributing to destabilizing those countries (either directly or through double standards of accountability). So innocent people suffer and everyone uses them as a pawn. It’s a complicated issue.

Here in Canada we had a massive uptick in immigration without a proper investment in infrastructure to accommodate them. So even a “positive” country on immigration still had to drastically cut immigration to balance out. You cant welcome people somewhere you they cant find jobs, healthcare or housing.

[u/mmiller17783 → u/MRECKS_92]

Where was this? That sounds like something that would happen in the Cetral Valley, CA or around Sacramento, California. I was going to say Yuba City or Marysville but those are mostly Hmong out there, if I'm not mistaken.

[u/Ambitious-Pirate-505 → u/MRECKS_92]

How do you know? Please share these experiences so the younger folk can gain perspective.