美人蕉，別再顯示你的無知了。 請看維基百科的“紅脖子”定義： Originally used in reference to poor, white farmers, Redneck is historically a derogatory slang term to refer to working class Southerners in the United States. …In recent decades the term expanded its meaning to mean (THOSE WHO ARE) BIGOTED, LOUTISH AND OPPOSED TO MODERN WAYS.
to 2cents: 美國人群大致劃分你要搞清楚。紅脖子(以美國南方白人為主)是共和黨的群眾基礎，他們寧願選南方的一條狗，也不會選北方人當總統。反歧視民權組織(ACLU， NAACP)主要傾向於民主黨，人們以黑人，猶太人，和北方人(加東西兩岸)為主。雖然猶太人商人因為少交稅應該傾向共和黨，但是猶太人明白受歧視造成的損失遠遠大於稅務上的損失，這就是為什麼百年前猶太人和黑人共同發起了NAACP組織。
An Open Letter to the Toronto Star and Maclean’s Magazine
The Toronto Star and Maclean's Magazine recently ran articles voicing concerns over so-called increased “Asianization” of Canada's institutes of higher learning. These articles betray the built-in biases of two of Canada's leading publications.
Without trying very hard, The Star and Maclean's have unwittingly contributed to the staining of our Canadian multi-racial and multi-cultural fabric. Public figures need to be conscious of the fact that, in any public discourse, even the slightest racist overtone, however un-intended, can incite social discord and poison inter-cultural harmony when given without the proper context.
The term “Asian”, within the context of the articles, is pejorative. It is used as a racial and ethnic epithet, and is offensive and prejudicial to Canada's Asian citizens.
The whole idea of our universities being “too Asian” is preposterous. If, as the articles suggest, the majority of these so-called “Asian” students are indeed Canadian citizens, then it should not matter what race these Canadians belong to – or what colour their skins are. Should the shoe be on the other foot – that is, if there were to be too many blacks, or whites, or browns – would Maclean's and the Star then be writing about our “too black, white or brown institutes of higher learning”? Will the Star and Maclean's be now writing a piece about the already too “Hispanic” or too “black” baseball sport?
Canada does not (thank God) as yet have a quota system based on racial origin. Or are the Star and Maclean's advocating such a system?
Louise Brown's explanation that some of the complaints came from the East Asian community seems a lame cop-out. Perhaps Ms. Brown ought to have refrained from giving a voice and media visibility to one group of Canadians making racially-tinged complaints about another (presumably the group making the complaint is also Canadian.)
To define academic focus as "Asian" is both incorrect and too simplistic. It is to U of T 's credit that its provost told the Star she finds such comments “rather alarming …” In any case Canada's institutes of higher learning have nothing to apologize for putting emphasis on academic excellence.
We live in a highly competitive world. The universities should be commended for taking an enlightened attitude towards excellence. We need a highly-motivated, well-educated, skilled and competitive-minded group of university graduates to compete successfully with 21st century nations like China, India and Brazil, not to mention our cousins to the south, the USA.
Maclean's article asserts that “an ‘Asian’ school has come to mean one that is so academically focused that some students feel they can no longer compete or have fun…” It is a sad commentary on our country that our universities should be chastised for being “academically focused”, that our youngsters see our universities as a place where they come to “have fun”, and where inability to compete does not mean “we must work harder”.
As for these complaining youngsters, I have news for them. The time for fun is past. You've had your fun during high school. Now it's “heads down, smarten up” time, for if we don't , the REAL“Asians” and the Brazilians will be eating our lunch.
