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Re: [LoGH] Pearl Harbor (off-topic about war movies)

Lee Thompson (thompsonl@logh.net)
Sun, 27 May 2001 12:35:19 -0700


> AIIEEE!  I know it is just a movie...but sometimes people treat me unfairly
> due to the fact that I am Asian, and worse... I am from a Chinese
> background... so evertime U.S. - China got into a dispute, somepeople like
> to think all Chinese are responsible (yes, even Chinese Americans)... now
> take into account that few people can tell Japanese from Chinese... so I
> (and other Asians) get to take blame for KEEPING the darn EP-3 Plane and now
> thanks for the ignorant anger caused by that movie, the blame for attacking
> that darn harbor.  Darn, it would be much easier being an African
> American... wait, no, I would get lynched by the KKK who would make it like
> a suicide (like what happenned in Mississippi several months ago).
> 
> Sob... it is hard being a minority in the U.S.A. ... especially you are from
> a country which  U.S. officially doesn't like.
> 

There will always be stupid and ignorant people and I doubt Hollywood has that
much to do with that.

The best I can do is apologize on behalf of the United States of America ^^;



-- 
Lee Thompson
thompsonl@logh.net