For anybody listening...
Those of you who may have seen a post I wrote a couple of days ago probably were at a complete loss as to what to say. I won't apologize if I scared you or made you worry about me, however I did privatize that post since then so you would not be subjected to it again.
If you're looking for something to say in response to it, please don't try, because I did not intend for it to elicit any kind of response. However if you DID have something you wanted to say in response, please feel free to do so.
On a completely different subject, today is Sunday and I'm at work, but only for two or three hours -- on Friday I came in and worked on things that were not in my "immediate tasking," that is, I worked on things that needed upgrading or fixing within another project, that's why I'm here today to make up a few hours work lost to my immediate work. I met a new next-door neighbor last night, she just moved into the place with the girl who was there already, but I rarely spoke to. So it was kind of strange, I guess, for my neighbor to be shaking my hand and introducing herself about 2 years after I have been living here... what is even more strange is that she doesn't even know my current roommate's name, and he has been living here several months longer than I have.
Now I say this with utmost decency, but signs have shown me that he (my current roommate) has prejudicial tendencies toward race, gender, and sexual orientation. Examples of this are when gay marriages are shown on the News, he makes comments on the order of "gay marriages? what's that? bullshit." and when describing relationships and women, says that they are "nothing but trouble."
Another instance specifically occurred when we were driving from the store and this woman dressed in somewhat questionable clothing was walking down the street, he remarked that she was "a bitch." It was kind of jokingly, of course, but I thought it was in bad taste so I didn't respond.
Further instances of racial prejudice occured when he makes comments such as "Spanish people are nothing but trouble and dirty people looking for low-cost housing", and remarks such as "black people always get in trouble with the police, say yo-yo-yo, eat fried chicken" etc. Now it's no doubt that a lot of us probably unconcsiously make prejudices as to the speech patterns, eating habits, or patterns of violence of certain ethnic groups, but making generalized statements such as these are just downright ill-founded and illogical conclusions.
I don't agree with him when he makes these comments, usually I just don't say anything and try to change the subject. He recently ended a "relationship" with a Korean girl he met at his workplace, whom he constantly described as "crazy". I don't know any of the details of what happened, but he did tell me that this girl, (whom we will call Yong, because that's her name... ) was 26 or 27 years old and still living with her father, who apparently beat her. My roommate learned this from her, and then told this to me, but he did so without much compassion for her, instead going off on a tangent such as "I don't want to be involved in it... she's crazy, her whole family's crazy." I then tried to tell him that she was probably very much in need of psychological help or counseling, which he agreed to, but of course he wouldn't go out of his way to help her and instead, simply ignored her at work. I'm not doubting the fact that she may in fact be "crazy," because the things he has told me about her suggest so: that she is paranoid constantly about him cheating on her, for example, whenever he is on the phone with someone, Yong will tell him "WHO ARE YOU TALKING TO?" and incidents like that. But this may in fact just be her fear of abandonment, and that she "latched" onto him for support, which he couldn't provide due to his selfish reasonsing of 'I don't want to be involved with her at all'.
I'm not trying to ask anyone for help, but to me it seems as if this girl, whom I have never met, is in serious need of help, due to what I've heard secondhand. I was going to attempt to come down and meet this girl to see for myself, but my roommmate told me that she is of the firm opinion that "Americans HATE Korean people." Honestly, if she really does think this, then what kind of world are we living in when everybody distrusts one another so much as to not even ask for help? The combined distrust between them has only worsened everything, and I think this is a very sad thing, but what can I do about it? Nothing at all really. I'm just posting this to see what your comments are on the whole issue, if you have any. Thanks..
If you're looking for something to say in response to it, please don't try, because I did not intend for it to elicit any kind of response. However if you DID have something you wanted to say in response, please feel free to do so.
On a completely different subject, today is Sunday and I'm at work, but only for two or three hours -- on Friday I came in and worked on things that were not in my "immediate tasking," that is, I worked on things that needed upgrading or fixing within another project, that's why I'm here today to make up a few hours work lost to my immediate work. I met a new next-door neighbor last night, she just moved into the place with the girl who was there already, but I rarely spoke to. So it was kind of strange, I guess, for my neighbor to be shaking my hand and introducing herself about 2 years after I have been living here... what is even more strange is that she doesn't even know my current roommate's name, and he has been living here several months longer than I have.
Now I say this with utmost decency, but signs have shown me that he (my current roommate) has prejudicial tendencies toward race, gender, and sexual orientation. Examples of this are when gay marriages are shown on the News, he makes comments on the order of "gay marriages? what's that? bullshit." and when describing relationships and women, says that they are "nothing but trouble."
Another instance specifically occurred when we were driving from the store and this woman dressed in somewhat questionable clothing was walking down the street, he remarked that she was "a bitch." It was kind of jokingly, of course, but I thought it was in bad taste so I didn't respond.
Further instances of racial prejudice occured when he makes comments such as "Spanish people are nothing but trouble and dirty people looking for low-cost housing", and remarks such as "black people always get in trouble with the police, say yo-yo-yo, eat fried chicken" etc. Now it's no doubt that a lot of us probably unconcsiously make prejudices as to the speech patterns, eating habits, or patterns of violence of certain ethnic groups, but making generalized statements such as these are just downright ill-founded and illogical conclusions.
I don't agree with him when he makes these comments, usually I just don't say anything and try to change the subject. He recently ended a "relationship" with a Korean girl he met at his workplace, whom he constantly described as "crazy". I don't know any of the details of what happened, but he did tell me that this girl, (whom we will call Yong, because that's her name... ) was 26 or 27 years old and still living with her father, who apparently beat her. My roommate learned this from her, and then told this to me, but he did so without much compassion for her, instead going off on a tangent such as "I don't want to be involved in it... she's crazy, her whole family's crazy." I then tried to tell him that she was probably very much in need of psychological help or counseling, which he agreed to, but of course he wouldn't go out of his way to help her and instead, simply ignored her at work. I'm not doubting the fact that she may in fact be "crazy," because the things he has told me about her suggest so: that she is paranoid constantly about him cheating on her, for example, whenever he is on the phone with someone, Yong will tell him "WHO ARE YOU TALKING TO?" and incidents like that. But this may in fact just be her fear of abandonment, and that she "latched" onto him for support, which he couldn't provide due to his selfish reasonsing of 'I don't want to be involved with her at all'.
I'm not trying to ask anyone for help, but to me it seems as if this girl, whom I have never met, is in serious need of help, due to what I've heard secondhand. I was going to attempt to come down and meet this girl to see for myself, but my roommmate told me that she is of the firm opinion that "Americans HATE Korean people." Honestly, if she really does think this, then what kind of world are we living in when everybody distrusts one another so much as to not even ask for help? The combined distrust between them has only worsened everything, and I think this is a very sad thing, but what can I do about it? Nothing at all really. I'm just posting this to see what your comments are on the whole issue, if you have any. Thanks..