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Missing being a good honest man.
Lol Kyle.
If we did that my ethnitar would be so white that I’d blend in with the textfugu background.
I am Asian btw. To be exact, I am 75% filipino and 25% chinese.
I am 19 years old and I live in NY. Oh yeah if you didnt catch what I said earlier, I’m a guy.
Am I missing anything else? I am also Catholic if that also helps.
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Anonymous^Ahaha Missing trolling us again, you’re such a funny half Mexican half French Buddhist female!
Genius Kyle!
＠Bbvoncrumb － hahahaha
LOL, well obviously that could make a difference as well. Which we also have a where are you from thread, so obviously it can be pertinent. That said unless someone’s particularly culturally aware, it probably wouldn’t make a lot of difference knowing someone’s cultural backgrounds as a whole. Where as everyone has gender experience and thus are intuitively aware of the differences whether it’s conscious or not. When you have training in linguistics the intuitive stuff just becomes more obvious, so you become consciously aware of the differences. I’m pretty sure there was even a specific course dedicated to that when I was doing my training, but I didn’t take it myself.
I’m from the US, though I’m currently living in AUS. My wife is Australian and even though I’ve lived in the country for 9 years and have been with her the entire time, I still have instances where she’ll say something and I have no idea what the hell she’s talking about, because it’s an Aussie specific thing that I somehow still haven’t encountered in 9 years. So obviously even being from different countries can make a huge difference in how you interpret what someone’s saying, hell even being from different states in the US can, but unless you are specifically aware of their cultural and social differences, the info isn’t going to do you any good.
@Aikibujin – Yes, people (plural) are different, as well as people (singular) are different. I think what people (plural) are trying to tell you is they like being judged on their actions, and not assumptions. Perhaps the assumptions are accurate more than half the time. Perhpas not. Maybe each one of us is a 100% stereotype. However, we want the chance to show you that, and not have you assume that. In person, that’s not possible. On a message board where race, gender, and everything that isn’t about the Japanese language doesn’t matter we can have that. So the question before you is why would you want to take that away?
Although, I will say in all of this you’ve given bbvoncrumb a few lols, so I’m sure he appreciates that. ;)
The lights are on, but nobody’s home…
@hey Actually it’s mostly you arguing that, which is funny as you are the only one to change your avatar to reflect your gender. :P
In any case making assumptions based on race or gender in the way you seem to be implying actually is racist or sexist, interpreting things properly due to a given context isn’t. I imagine you haven’t studied linguistics, so if that’s the case the difference between those two things might be hard to spot, but they are worlds apart.
For instance take the following sentence:
Last night I got so pissed.
What does that sentence actually mean?
If you were reading it casually like the rest of the content on here, what would you think it meant?
Here’s another one:
I so lucked out on that one.
What would you take that to mean?
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