TheBoyBlunder
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Originally posted by: tweakmm
How come white people stereotype all the time?
Originally posted by: Lifer
Do they really have bad grammar?
Or do they do it because they think it sounds cool and ghetto?
Example: I was just watching "Making the Band II" on MTV.
And they say something like -
"Me and my boys was just chillin'.
When the proper way to say it is -
"Me and my boys were just chillin'.
Originally posted by: Xionide
You cant take every moron you see on tv that has been prepackaged to act that way and make a generaliztaion of all black people.
-Xionide
Actually you can because they are exactly what you said generalazations meaning you will find that behavior in not all but the majority.
If you see a redneck he has a nascar sticker on his truck and his wife doesn't have all of her teeth.
If you go to a tourist area the asians will have cameras.
White people really can't dance.
That Mexican you see is most likely illegal.
That black guy you see eating the chicken does have a big xxxx.
Originally posted by: fredtam
Originally posted by: Xionide
You cant take every moron you see on tv that has been prepackaged to act that way and make a generaliztaion of all black people.
-Xionide
Actually you can because they are exactly what you said generalazations meaning you will find that behavior in not all but the majority.
If you see a redneck he has a nascar sticker on his truck and his wife doesn't have all of her teeth.
If you go to a tourist area the asians will have cameras.
White people really can't dance.
That Mexican you see is most likely illegal.
Looks like we have a winner folks....and all you senitive people just need to get over the fact that if there wasn't some truth to stereotyopes they would not exist. Now, instead of sitting around calling everyone a racist why don't you go out and make a full force effort to actually change the stereotype? I bet you won't.
That black guy you see eating the chicken does have a big xxxx.
[Disclaimer: I usually don't talk education with armchair experts because, regardless of what they may think, as a trained professional I actually DO know more than they do about teaching.
Originally posted by: Palek
KaBudokan,But, I really liked what KaBudokan said because I can identify with what he/she is trying to teach his/her kids. I was raised in a rural part of my country where folks speak a heavy dialect that most would label as unintelligent, which is far from the truth, but that is the reality of things. Thanks to my parents (both of them well-educated people), though, and some effort on my part, I learned to speak "properly", and although I cannot be 100% sure I think it helped me a lot with fitting in once I left my little country town. You can scream all you want that you should not be required to conform or be like sheep, but then that will not help you land a job at a respected computer firm or a bank, will it? Speaking clean English, on the other hand, will take you much further.
Gothca! :music:Originally posted by: fredtam
Not differing just adding trying to make things cohesive.
Originally posted by: Lifer
Do they really have bad grammar?
Or do they do it because they think it sounds cool and ghetto?
Example: I was just watching "Making the Band II" on MTV.
And they say something like -
"Me and my boys was just chillin'.
When the proper way to say it is -
"Me and my boys were just chillin'.
Originally posted by: Staley8
Well, let me go axe someone that I know.
Originally posted by: yellowfiero
Originally posted by: Staley8
Well, let me go axe someone that I know.
say what?
Originally posted by: yukichigai
Originally posted by: tweakmm
How come white people stereotype all the time?
I'm not saying all Black people do it, I'm just saying how it came about. Plenty of white guys talk like that, (hell, I know some asian guys who do it) so it's not a racial thing at all. I'd call it more of a "street" thing actually.
Originally posted by: isaacmacdonald
It's perhaps a method of securing an identity within american culture. In any case, it's intentional, as opposed to much of the regional creations I've experienced. One particularly annoying locution in the New York area is "yous" (apparently the plural of the already plural you).
\How come black people use "were" and "was" incorrectly all the time?
Gee these are new to me and I live in Texas. And how exactly does one misuse the words "coke" and "pop"? Only Yankees call soda "pop". And ya'll happens to be in the dictionary so I guess that one is moot too.Originally posted by: rudeguy
\How come black people use "were" and "was" incorrectly all the time?
How come southern white women use the words "you all and ya'll" incorrectly all the time?
How come white men from Texas misuse the words "pop" and "coke" all the time?
need I go on?
Originally posted by: Lifer
Originally posted by: Encryptic
Probably just bad grammar on their part, and it's not necessarily just black people that do this.
Very true. hispanics do it as well.
And so do the white people that listen to gangster rap music that think they're black, but they grew up in a normal white background.
so for these people, I think they do it because they think its cool to speak like black ppl.