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Old Sep 29th 2010, 11:35 pm
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Originally Posted by Seneca21
Presumably this includes white. So just a person, then?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color
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Originally Posted by Bomjeito
I'll get myself back over to American expats....
Are they as bitchy as over here? I expect so, with the lack of peanut butter. (me=USC)

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Before you go, can you tell me where the American expats forum is? I want to check it out.
There is one at uk-yankee.com

Originally Posted by Desperate Dan
On the subject of the CBP officials, I agree with Malashaan's point about the lack of accountability. I appreciate that they have a serious job to do but I generally find their behaviour unnecessarily aggressive and hostile - it's like because I am an 'immigrant', I am somehow 'sub-human' and not worthy of even neutral behaviour, never mind polite behaviour.
Just don't go thinking you immigrants are special, OK? I've had my share of good and bad at the border when returning to the US myself. I never took ANY notice of it until I had an immigrant spouse. I figured they just picked on my for being a hippie, traveling in Mexico/C Amer, a woman on her own. I also figured those were also valid reasons for them treating me nicely sometimes when I passed through!
Sometimes my husband gets a 'welcome home' and sometimes he does not. The last land crossing we had, he was quizzed about how he obtained his US citizenship & when that had been. When he had his green card, they'd try to trick him by asking him where he got his visa.

There are some good, some bad, but I don't really think the officers give their 'customers' (hahah) that much thought, to consider them sub-human. I think they're mostly trained to be stone faced and aren't here to give you the love (which makes it so nice when they do!).
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Are you white? You don't look that white to me if that's you in the profile picture.
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Are you white? You don't look that white to me if that's you in the profile picture.
Well-spotted. I am half-human, half-betazoid.
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Originally Posted by cityhog
Are you white? You don't look that white to me if that's you in the profile picture.
Not a trekkie then?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deanna_Troi

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Old Sep 29th 2010, 11:49 pm
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Originally Posted by kimilseung
Not a trekkie then?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deanna_Troi

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Yeah that's why she looked familiar he he.
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Originally Posted by meauxna
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There are some good, some bad, but I don't really think the officers give their 'customers' (hahah) that much thought, to consider them sub-human. I think they're mostly trained to be stone faced and aren't here to give you the love (which makes it so nice when they do!).
I don't mind the stone face at all or, lack of warmth - it's more when they harangue you for, for example, asking relatively untaxing and simple-to-answer questions. I don't see how it makes policing immigration more effective. More to the point, it emphasises how few, if any, rights you have and how much power they have at that point in time.

I'd like to think that if I gained US citizenship, I would feel more sure of my status and so less intimidated by them.
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I like this one better.

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Sally's pictures much nicer than a square with a question mark in it!
Are we not allowed to post pictures here? It's gone!
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Originally Posted by cityhog
I reckon you live in Florida. Yeah a lot of crackers there, especially in north Florida.
One of my personal heroes was from North Florida: Red Barber. I fondly recall Friday mornings from 7:35 -40 a.m from 1981 to 1992 listening to his chat with Bob Edwards.

Barber was the announcer for the Brooklyn Dodgers when Jackie Robinson broke the color line in the Bigs. I have no problem with describing Robinson as the first "black player" in major league baseball. However, you know how Barber referred to him on the radio? "Robinson."

Something to emulate IMHO.

Perhaps I did not express it clearly, but all I meant in my first post was that the statement sounded racist to me. A nasty response might have been -- "I had no intention of making a racist statement, you jerk!" It would have been impolite, but have the benefit of an appropriate response. Instead, OP goes "piss on your PC crap."

My belief is that one should treat the audience of a communication with a modicum of respect -- and some of that audience will be true believers in "PC crap."

The conversation Rete and I had may have been pointed, but it was terse and done with. She asked why I considered the statement racist and I answered that the description was irrelevant to the topic. I guess I had internalized the Red Barber treatment of Robinson.

Final note regarding the discussion of accents -- Every American knows that Brits "talk funny."
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Are we not allowed to post pictures here? It's gone!
Not our fault.. maybe the blogger doesn't like being linked.
You'll have to learn how to steal pictures and use the 'manage attachments' button.
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Originally Posted by S Folinsky
Also, having owned a 1960's vintage British sports car, I'm in the mood for some Lucas Electric jokes.
I used to have a 1969 Simca 1204. It was a good little car! Simcas weren't well known outside of Detroit/Windsor... or France!

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Originally Posted by S Folinsky
One of my personal heroes was from North Florida: Red Barber. I fondly recall Friday mornings from 7:35 -40 a.m from 1981 to 1992 listening to his chat with Bob Edwards.

Barber was the announcer for the Brooklyn Dodgers when Jackie Robinson broke the color line in the Bigs. I have no problem with describing Robinson as the first "black player" in major league baseball. However, you know how Barber referred to him on the radio? "Robinson."

Something to emulate IMHO.

Perhaps I did not express it clearly, but all I meant in my first post was that the statement sounded racist to me. A nasty response might have been -- "I had no intention of making a racist statement, you jerk!" It would have been impolite, but have the benefit of an appropriate response. Instead, OP goes "piss on your PC crap."

My belief is that one should treat the audience of a communication with a modicum of respect -- and some of that audience will be true believers in "PC crap."

The conversation Rete and I had may have been pointed, but it was terse and done with. She asked why I considered the statement racist and I answered that the description was irrelevant to the topic. I guess I had internalized the Red Barber treatment of Robinson.

Final note regarding the discussion of accents -- Every American knows that Brits "talk funny."
Ha ha, you Brits like to discuss a lot! I reckon British couples like to have a passionate argument every night before sex.
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Originally Posted by cityhog
Ha ha, you Brits like to discuss a lot! I reckon British couples like to have a passionate argument every night before sex.
Umm... Mr. Folinsky is a USC, born and bred. He's not British.

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