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Old 02-22-2013, 05:57 PM   #61
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His points are valid. Obviously the entire community isn't asian, but there are a lot there, and just read up on passing injured people on the streets in some parts of the world, and you'll see it's a valid point to bring up.

Not saying that's for sure what happend, for all we know it was two d-bag white people, but just saying that it isn't really racist to bring up that possibility when it's a real possibility.
I never said it was racist; stereotyping perhaps.

And he is exaggerating to the extreme by saying 100% of Sandstone is Asian and 100% of the people who passed are also Asian.
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Sorry, I may have wrote it wrong, yes Sandstone is not 100% an asian community, but I know there is a lot more asian residents than Caucasians.

Wang Ching Wong and Nohep Pho Peepo? are you kidding me? Wow... seriously?!!!!
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Old 02-22-2013, 07:01 PM   #63
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Old 02-22-2013, 07:05 PM   #64
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I never said it was racist; stereotyping perhaps.

And he is exaggerating to the extreme by saying 100% of Sandstone is Asian and 100% of the people who passed are also Asian.
His wording may have been a little poor, but as far as I can tell, he was just speculating, based on things we know. a) Sandstone has a large asian population, and b) In some cultures it's standard (not morally, just standard) to pass injured motorists, as disgusting as it is.

Certainly, it could end up being some white guy, but his specualtion wasn't off base, imo.
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Does it really matter what ethnicity the people are who drove around the lady? To speculate about that with absolutely no proof and accuse asian people because of one video from the internet and the area of the city is f'ed up.
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Sorry, I may have wrote it wrong, yes Sandstone is not 100% an asian community, but I know there is a lot more asian residents than Caucasians.
City of Calgary lists the visible minority population of Sandstone as 45.3% (source: http://www.calgary.ca/CSPS/CNS/Docum...one_valley.pdf)

Maybe you should get out and meet more people around your community.
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City of Calgary lists the visible minority population of Sandstone as 45.3% (source: http://www.calgary.ca/CSPS/CNS/Docum...one_valley.pdf)

Maybe you should get out and meet more people around your community.

Guess it has changed over the past decade...
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Guess it has changed over the past decade...
Considering in 2006, 54 percent of the total 43 percent visible minorities was Asian, so roughly 25 percent total, I kind of doubt it.
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Not to reinforce a stereotype. But when I was on the sales floor 10 years ago, I was helping a Chinese couple, and showing them some cars. I totally wiped out and damn near broke my arm on the pavement in front of the dealership. The Chinese guy just gives me this blank stare as I am wincing in the snow, and looks at his wife, says something in Chinese...turned his back, then they jumped in their car and drove away without even offering a hand to help me up, or letting anyone inside know I wiped out on my ass. I get I am the slimey car salesman and all, but it was very odd to me.

I don't treat Chinese people any different as a result, and would still lend a hand to them... but many of them from the Mainland do not care about other peoples problems... especially white people. It is just the way it is there from what I understand.

The best thing we ever had though, was a guy on our sales floor that was fluent in Mandarin, and would tell us all the horrible things they were saying about us in Chinese after they left. It was shockingly common (probably 50%) and pretty appalling TBQH.

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You have the most hilarious things happen to you. I would love to drive somewhere with 4X4 and you and then walk around with you guys. Hilarity would ensue.
I think when you have spent your entire working life, dealing with hundreds of complete strangers every month, it makes for some different experiences. We get treated like absolute garbage by 90% of the public that deal with us, and could rant on for hours about some of the crazy stuff I have seen.
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City of Calgary lists the visible minority population of Sandstone as 45.3% (source: http://www.calgary.ca/CSPS/CNS/Docum...one_valley.pdf)

Maybe you should get out and meet more people around your community.
Highly, highly doubt those numbers.

My friend, who isn't Asian lives in that area and blocks away from this incident and all I see are Asians in that area. He's the only non-Asian on the whole block of about 20 houses.
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I think when you have spent your entire working life, dealing with hundreds of complete strangers every month, it makes for some different experiences. We get treated like absolute garbage by 90% of the public that deal with us, and could rant on for hours about some of the crazy stuff I have seen.
Proceed, I could use some amusing stories.
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Proceed, I could use some amusing stories.
I know that is a cynical... but whatever, here's a more PG one for you.

So I have this clear plastic Beetle sitting on my desk, that used to have Jelly Beans in it, but I ate all the Jelly beans had filled it with paper clips. This older lady in her 70's I was dealing with had asked for one, and I said when she picked up her car, I would give her one, as we had a couple more kicking around somewhere, I just needed to find it. When she came to pick up her car, I was tied up with someone else, and ended up completing her paperwork with my partner. So after she leaves I walk into the other office to make sure everything went well, and my partner is standing there with this look of shock on his face, and paper clips everywhere in the office. On the desk, all over the floor. When she was done her paper work, she just says "Pylon said I could have this!" grabs it, dumps everything out all over the desk, and just marches out the door. Meanwhile, I had the Jelly Bean filled one sitting in the back waiting for her.
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Just yesterday I was listening to a podcast that had a comedian named Jessica Kirson on. One of her bits involves her going to Chinatown in NYC and proceeding to fake a breakdown, crying uncontrollably on the sidewalk while the Asian people passing by don't react, don't ask if is she's ok, don't offer to help, just walk on by. She said the expression on their faces don't even change. Interesting listening to that podcast right after scanning this thread.

I love how most Asians are quiet and respectful, decent citizens for the most part but they are weirdos.
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I know that is a cynical... but whatever, here's a more PG one for you.

So I have this clear plastic Beetle sitting on my desk, that used to have Jelly Beans in it, but I ate all the Jelly beans had filled it with paper clips. This older lady in her 70's I was dealing with had asked for one, and I said when she picked up her car, I would give her one, as we had a couple more kicking around somewhere, I just needed to find it. When she came to pick up her car, I was tied up with someone else, and ended up completing her paperwork with my partner. So after she leaves I walk into the other office to make sure everything went well, and my partner is standing there with this look of shock on his face, and paper clips everywhere in the office. On the desk, all over the floor. When she was done her paper work, she just says "Pylon said I could have this!" grabs it, dumps everything out all over the desk, and just marches out the door. Meanwhile, I had the Jelly Bean filled one sitting in the back waiting for her.
That is nowhere near as bad as the bail in the parking lot. You made out like a bandit in this story. Free jelly beans and all you had to do was pick up some paper clips.

I don't have it in me to work sales for a living, I would murder those ####ers.
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That is nowhere near as bad as the bail in the parking lot. You made out like a bandit in this story. Free jelly beans and all you had to do was pick up some paper clips.

I don't have it in me to work sales for a living, I would murder those ####ers.
When I was working for an Accessory shop in the 90's, we had a guy who we refused a warranty claim on a remote starter, because he installed it himself, and it fried his engine computer in his new pickup, and caused like 6 grand worth of damage. We made it perfectly clear when he bought it too, to pay for professional installation because we cannot warranty his work. Well, no wasn't an acceptable answer, and he started trashing our showroom, kicking in the glass cases with his steel toes, knocking stuff off the walls. The guy I was working with ran in the back, and called he cops, and I just casually stood there watching this guy make an ass of himself.

I saw another guy javelin a Truck camper Belly bar through the front window of an RV dealership because they refused to accept to take it on return 2 years after he bought it.

I had a customer grab me by the tie over my desk, for refusing to refund a deposit on a real oddball car we brought in from the other side of the country, because he simply "Changed his mind." His deposit was $500, the freight to bring it in was $800. The contract also read "non-refundable deposit." Scarier yet, he did this in front of his wife, and you could tell how embarrassed she was. Had he been alone, and the showroom was empty. I would have gone over the desk, no questions asked.

I am assuming these are the types of stories you are looking for...lol.
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When I was working for an Accessory shop in the 90's, we had a guy who we refused a warranty claim on a remote starter, because he installed it himself, and it fried his engine computer in his new pickup, and caused like 6 grand worth of damage. We made it perfectly clear when he bought it too, to pay for professional installation because we cannot warranty his work. Well, no wasn't an acceptable answer, and he started trashing our showroom, kicking in the glass cases with his steel toes, knocking stuff off the walls. The guy I was working with ran in the back, and called he cops, and I just casually stood there watching this guy make an ass of himself.

I saw another guy javelin a Truck camper Belly bar through the front window of an RV dealership because they refused to accept to take it on return 2 years after he bought it.

I had a customer grab me by the tie over my desk, for refusing to refund a deposit on a real oddball car we brought in from the other side of the country, because he simply "Changed his mind." His deposit was $500, the freight to bring it in was $800. The contract also read "non-refundable deposit." Scarier yet, he did this in front of his wife, and you could tell how embarrassed she was. Had he been alone, and the showroom was empty. I would have gone over the desk, no questions asked.

I am assuming these are the types of stories you are looking for...lol.
you should have busted his chops and while he was lying there bleeding you should have taken his wife. Its what Conan would have done.
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Just yesterday I was listening to a podcast that had a comedian named Jessica Kirson on. One of her bits involves her going to Chinatown in NYC and proceeding to fake a breakdown, crying uncontrollably on the sidewalk while the Asian people passing by don't react, don't ask if is she's ok, don't offer to help, just walk on by. She said the expression on their faces don't even change. Interesting listening to that podcast right after scanning this thread.

I love how most Asians are quiet and respectful, decent citizens for the most part but they are weirdos.
I'd like to think I'm a pretty decent person, but I wouldn't go near that either. If a random person is physically hurt, sure. Emotionally? No way.
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This was a few blocks away from my parents house....absolutely terrible.

How does someone live with themself...
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