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Re: LOTR credit line

From:J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 31, 2003, 22:37
In a message dated 2003:12:31 03:02:01 AM, cowan@MERCURY.CCIL.ORG writes:

>Andreas Johansson scripsit: > >> Tangentially, I've heard that some SEAsian peoples consider Chinese to >> be "white".
And Indonesians have a stereotype of Chinese that reads like the worst Semitic ones; it is no bleedin' wonder the Chinese in Indonesia say that they feel like they are "the Jews of Asia." (And some actually are part Russian-Jewish - their parents or grandparents being from wild, crazy decadent 1930's Shanghai...) The 1st coupla months I was in a small sad lil Texas elementary school - in the mid1960's - I was classified as "White." They only had "White", "Negroid," and "Latinate" classifications at this particular point in educational history in this cultural and ethnic backwoods. So I was a "honourary White" for awhile, but sure wasn't a "model Asian", hehe...
>I wonder what they think of Europeans - perhaps "red"?
Accordin' to my Uncle Kai from Borneo, EuroAmericans fall under a colour that can most easily be translated as _pale-moon-bone-white_. There is a also an _ash-white_ (greyish) and _corpse-white_ (blue-green white). And yes all these white colours have spooky connotations. Amongst the ex-cannibal headhuntin' Sukei tribals, mothers say to their kiddies: "If you don't eat/behave like a good lil Sukei, ya'll turn White." No bloody wonder they are the hardest to hard-sell anything from "Civilization" - esp'ly anything white. My Uncle Joe, who is in Borneo and is a chief owner of a eco-tourist hotel, trade & supply co., says his kids thought Darth Vader was the Good Guy not Luke Skywalker becuz of this whole colour semantics thingie. "They been hanging out with the Sukei kids a little too long... Loosing our bleedin' distinctive Sino-British heritage... AiYaH!" ---///// __/_//_/ __/_//_////// __/_//_/ __/_//_/ _Nom de Guerre et Nom de 'Nick'_: Hanuman "Stitch/626" Zhang AIN Resistance partisan code name: "Z23-4C" WOGeR (Wiley Oriental Gentleman/Rogue) BBC (BritishBornChinaman) Avatar of Sun Wu K'ung, a.k.a. Sun Wukong, a.k.a _Ma-Lau_ ("Monkey King") a.k.a. "TricksterGod of the Glorious Anti-Imperialist Chinese Boxers" ¡¡¡ TricksterShapeShifterIncarnate !!! >^..^< ';' ;P~~~ "one o' dem best-est & bright-est a' de bottom o' de barrel" <A HREF="http://www.friendster.com/user.jsp">Friendster - zHANgster</A> => om hung hanumatay rudratmakai hung phat <= mantra to Hanuman the Hindu Monkey TricksterGod "I rather be whole than good." - Carl Jung <= thee prIs ov eXistenZ iz aetern'l warfaer 'N' kreativ playf'llnizz... => "Mea typo, mea typo, mea maxima typo... " "Life is all a great joke, but only the brave ever get the point." - Kenneth Rexroth googolgigglabyte goegolgiechelbijt - of - met een vette megagrijns GoogolGekicherByte googolrisibyte ===> el byte de la risita de googol googolrisadinhabyte ===> o byte de risadinha de googol googolspassoctet guugoIllolbijt gugolhihibajt gugolngisibayt okukolkikikol egúgelegigalibaith kiletstroknolyadgigabaiti cimacimakekehapi baitakhakhweifayatrauni ufi'auayinisuguguluarkhar pokatra oemadroabhethetre inarevuta yhiyhayhake nawyo AnekoMeppathmoTtilvatelmDiggulgyttahat va'i utne tuktukt'ishushukuko`g tuk go`go`o`gwgaga ggsngngsbd [gugulaNexebidi] http://www.boheme-magazine.net

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