"William M. Mandel" wrote: > There are many nuances to the Black-Asian tension. Overall, > African-Americans, knowing that their forebears were brought here > involuntarily, find that it's hard enough to get and compete for jobs, > housing, whatever, with whites, without having to deal with > "foreigners." This is no different from skinhead attitudes among > whites, toward Blacks, Asians, Jews, you name it. > As to the to-hell-with-the-customer attitude, I wonder if that > isn't a worldwide pre-capitalist attitude amont merchants. It is > evident among East Indian merchants here, and it was evident across > the Soviet Union among salespeople, regardless of ethnicity. > > Bill Mandel > > Pat164@aol.com wrote: > >> What's the talk tomorrow? I remember that a couple of months ago >> you sent me >> an enormous e-mail containing schedules of all sorts of stuff. But >> it got >> buried somewhere when I had to make this place look spiffy to put it >> on the >> market. I have now sold it and gone to contract -- perhaps just in >> the nick >> of time given the economic slowdown. >> >> I found that piece on black rascism very interesting. Much truth in >> it, >> particularly the reluctance of lefty types -- and blacks -- to >> acknowledge >> that rascism (although everyone knows about black rascism toward >> Jews). I'm >> just suspicious of the AE source. There is no attempt by the >> writer to >> explain the reasons for the anti-Korean feelings among blacks. I >> remember a >> long piece somewhere, when that boycott in Brooklyn was going on, >> about the >> Confucion tradition in Korean society which places family at the >> center of >> its social organization. Anyone who is not of your family doesn't >> at all in >> your sense of civic responsibility or concern. Certainly I've heard >> compl >> aints on my own pretty liberal west side about the Korean green >> grocers and >> how hard nosed they are toward us customers; they make it clear that >> they >> dont' give a damn about us or our neighborhood where just about >> everyone >> treats them with civility and stealing is surely a rarity. After >> the >> Brooklyn business, as I'm sure you recall, there was an effort by >> the Korean >> business associations to make its shopkeepers a little kinder and >> warmer and >> more understanding to their customers in general, and in black areas >> >> specifically. My point being that the AE guy didn't address >> blacks' >> complaints. >> >> Anyway, what's the talk tomorrow? I'm up for something that will >> take me out >> of this house where I've been cooped up with several deadlines for >> over a >> week. Pat >
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