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'Turbulence was relatively misunderstood'
'Frozen food! arrgh. Pizza?'
'Peanuts?'
'Grab and Go?'

Sound like the 1950s trolley dollys copied the chinese yum cha service.

Or is this a picnic?
 
passion84god said:
I am happy that you were not offended, but my apology still stands. After I apologized yesterday, I jumped in my car to go to the gym. On my ride there, I passed an automotive shop, and I pulled into their parking lot so I might inquire whether or not I could get a quick oil change. As soon as I walked in the door of the shop, I was an observer and listener to a conversation between the mechanic, a guy who was only in his mid to upper twenties, and a female customer who looked to be around 55 years old or so. What was the topic of their conversation? Their mutual contempt for Indians. At his end, he was peeved because Indians were buying up a lot of real estate in town and opening a lot of convenience stores. He also complained that he had Indian teachers while at college that he couldn't understand because of their accents while mockingly mimicking their accents. At her end, she was railing against Indian doctors. I was horrified by her language as she repeatedly uttered compound curse words that I could not repeat here.

What were the odds of me randomly walking in on such a conversation right after apologizing to a woman of Indian descent here? For me, it was confirmation from God that I was right to apologize, even though there was no malicious intent behind what I had initially said. So, yea, I will be more cognizant of culture before making comments here in the future.​
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I appreciate your reply and intention. God bless you abundantly, passion84god.

Personally, I experienced racism for the first time when I visited a jewelery store in Switzerland. One of the salesladies was RUDE to me all because I am an Indian. I was shocked as all I did was ask her a question. I did get upset, but God gave me the grace to not let her behavior spoil my plan. The other side of the story is that some people in my tour group, from my own country behaved so bad that I was embarassed as an Indian, and really wished I had come with my own group of friends.

These two experiences made me realize that some people become racists because of their experiences and some because of a closed or brain-washed mind. I think the lady at the jewelery store, because of her past, bad experience with an Indian/some Indians reacted to me the way she did. It doesn't justify what she did, but it gives me another perspective.

I wish people would judge others as individuals and not based on their race. Race adds a uniqueness to us, but it doesn't define our character. Even twins have different characters!

And to me, it is also fun when someone makes little, harmless jokes like "Sari" or "Curry" 😄 It is the intention behind the words that matters.
 
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Jesusgirl777 said:
And to me, it is also fun when someone makes little, harmless jokes like "Sari" or "Curry" 😄 It is the intention behind the words that matters.
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I appreciate that you consider intent. It's just been a weird week for me where Indians are concerned, and it continued yesterday. I have an unsaved friend, and. lately, he has been placing wagers on professional golfers. Yesterday, while at work, I received a string of text messages from him with heavy anti-Indian sentiment in them. Why? Because he bet on a golfer, who isn't even Indian (he does look Indian though), and he went on this anti-Indian tirade against him because he was playing poorly and costing him his bet or wager. I won't even tell you some of the stereotypical anti-Indian insults he used, but it was really, really bad.​
 
Sorry you have been subjected to such conversations.

How people behave and what they say is a reflection of their hearts. God help them. I pray the Lord's peace, strength, and wisdom for you in this situation.
 
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I cringe when anyone I know is racist and I'm there and they say oh but not you, you're alright.

???

Jesusgirl777 have you seen 'Never have I ever' the netflix series. If you have, what do you think of it? The main character is Desi
 
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It turned out Apu from the Simpsons was cancelled for a while cos a not-Indian guy was doing his voice.
But Apu was a well-loved character! Everyone on that show was lampooned, it wasn't being deliberately racist that I know of.

I think even the time The Simpsons went to Australia, or China, nobody was offended. It was all done for laughs. I loved the episode where the Simpsons went to Japan, and Homer's head ended up as an add for lightbulbs as 'Mr Sparkle'
 
Lanolin said:
I cringe when anyone I know is racist and I'm there and they say oh but not you, you're alright.

???

Jesusgirl777 have you seen 'Never have I ever' the netflix series. If you have, what do you think of it? The main character is Desi
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I saw that series on Netflix but I didn't watch. No particular reason.
 
Jesusgirl777 said:
Not that either. I have unsubscribed from Netflix. What is it about?
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Its a series starring all Asian characters and is about this guy who dents a ladies car in the parking lot of a hardware store, and she gets angry and starts chasing him in her car, and then follows their lives as they sort of have this feud with each other. She's a well off artists wife living in the Calabasas and he's a poor tradie living in Koreatown.
 
The scene where his brother goes to the Korean church, people have said that is very true to life.
Ali Wong (Vietnamese) plays the rich wife. The guy who plays her husband is Japanese.

Everyone else is Asian except for one or two token white characters lol
 
In other news I had beef schnitzel for dinner...so that was my beef.

Has anyone here ever had dandan noodles? Spicy or not spicy?
 
Had LJS last night but it wasn't as good as had before. Sometimes you go to restaurant or out to eat and if you catch them at a bad time or the regular chef isn't there, it's not the same.

Some gripes we had - seafood platter -- was served on a cold dish, the sauce was all over the chips which turned soggy as a result, the rice had no flavour (did they forget the spice? or pepper?) the mussels were tiny and not enough garlic, the crumbed fish wasn't crispy on the outside. It was a fail and I don't know if I would go back there if every meal was going to be like this. My friend asked for a spoon (so she could scoop up the sauce and rice) and they didn't even have any! Not even a wooden disposable one.

Rice needs to be served in a bowl and served hot and steaming because cold rice isn't that nice unless you eating sushi. I think some people that work in restaurants have no clue about what they are serving or even cooking and how people eat.
 
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