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Sep. 12th, 2009 04:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hawkwing_lbOkay, I have a question.
What do you say to someone who, when you mention that you've been thinking of spending a year (after you get this college thing done) teaching English in Thailand or China, tells you you shouldn't go to "yellow people" countries?
Really? Seriously? I thought the yellow menace had gone out with phrenology, for gods' sakes.
Of course, aforesaid person - who is a relative, btw - tops this by telling me I should go to Canada instead, because, and I quote, "All the best aristocratic British people went to Canada when the blacks came in to England after WWII."
The stupid, the ignorance, the bigotry, it burns. And makes me want to cry, in frustrated rage sort of way.
What do you say to someone who, when you mention that you've been thinking of spending a year (after you get this college thing done) teaching English in Thailand or China, tells you you shouldn't go to "yellow people" countries?
Really? Seriously? I thought the yellow menace had gone out with phrenology, for gods' sakes.
Of course, aforesaid person - who is a relative, btw - tops this by telling me I should go to Canada instead, because, and I quote, "All the best aristocratic British people went to Canada when the blacks came in to England after WWII."
The stupid, the ignorance, the bigotry, it burns. And makes me want to cry, in frustrated rage sort of way.
