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In Reply to: RE: Point to Rod posted by B. Scarpia on November 14, 2020 at 02:39:13:
a certain kind of person. A person who understands the target of the joke for one.In my post - who did I attack? Since it needs to be painfully spelled out to certain people on this board (and Americans in general) the target of my comment was --- drumroll -- Rich White Americans.
Before you read further - go back read what I wrote again and spend however many years you need to "get it."
Let's break it down because - OMG - I have to.
Stereotype one: Asians work harder than Caucasians. As I live in Hong Kong and Asia for the last 13 of the last 15 years - the average working day here is 10-12 hours (with one break) not 8 like in America and Canada. The workweek is 6 days, not 5. And in most cases, workers get 2 days off so they have to work two Sundays too.
Students go to school for 6 days, not 5 days. In Japan and South Korea, the day is often considerably longer at 14 hours a day. You don't go home until the boss goes home and the boss doesn't go home if he wants to continue being a boss.
In the film American Factory - A documentary they interview the Chinese workers brought in and they are frustrated because the Americans don't work hard enough. The documentary is about a Chinese company Fuyao's factory in Moraine, a city near Dayton, Ohio, that occupies Moraine Assembly, a shuttered General Motors plant. The Chinese are quite happy to know they work harder than Americans - because it's true.
Noting that Chinese work harder than westerners would not be deemed an insult to a Chinese person. They would not get the satire or the joke because they would be nodding in agreement saying "Yes" while waiting for the punch-line. They even say it themselves in the film.
Stereotype 2: Women have to work harder and generally be better to be given the slightest notice over a totally unqualified male who got the job because he was buddies with the owner/manager. Kim Ng should have been hired a decade ago with her qualifications that trounce the qualifications of many GMs out there who were hired over her because they were "men." The glass ceiling argument that a woman needs to be twice as good to be treated as an equal and that in some lines of work they are paid less to do the same job - well that is not a Stereotype that is just the facts.
As Sid notes - there are men out there who will never accept Ng in this role because she's a woman. Tim and Sid nail the argument bang on.
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Follow Ups
- Satire requires - RGA 11/14/2004:27:09 11/14/20 (3)
- Absolute agreement, RGA. Look at American college applicants: colleges, to - tinear 11:02:01 11/14/20 (2)
- RE: Absolute agreement, RGA. Look at American college applicants: colleges, to - rivervalley817 11:10:56 11/14/20 (1)
- RE: rivervalley, always entertaining (nt) - B. Scarpia 11:25:07 11/14/20 (0)
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