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@AnonyMint, @Honeypot You are both right. Which means you are also both wrong. Any statement that is spoken/written down cannot be final and is merely an expression of the limits of one's own understanding. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that, that is the way of the human world. You both display passion in your words. Passion is what drives wars.
Passion does not inspire warring; conviction does.

Passion and conviction are inextricably linked. You cannot be passionate about something you're not convinced of. People take up arms to defend to things they are passionate about whether it be democracy, family, religion, way of life or anything else.

You prelude conviction for you are so convicted. What are you, save that?
legendary
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@AnonyMint, @Honeypot You are both right. Which means you are also both wrong. Any statement that is spoken/written down cannot be final and is merely an expression of the limits of one's own understanding. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that, that is the way of the human world. You both display passion in your words. Passion is what drives wars.
Passion does not inspire warring; conviction does.

Passion and conviction are inextricably linked. You cannot be passionate about something you're not convinced of. People take up arms to defend to things they are passionate about whether it be democracy, family, religion, way of life or anything else.
sr. member
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Knowledge could but approximate existence.
@AnonyMint, @Honeypot You are both right. Which means you are also both wrong. Any statement that is spoken/written down cannot be final and is merely an expression of the limits of one's own understanding. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that, that is the way of the human world. You both display passion in your words. Passion is what drives wars.
Passion does not inspire warring; conviction does.
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Its funny I had watched that show hells on wheels and they exactly on that show, most have the I know everything attitude.  

and I can agree on the Permit government fact that you brought up, is true that there will be corruption.
legendary
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@AnonyMint, @Honeypot You are both right. Which means you are also both wrong. Any statement that is spoken/written down cannot be final and is merely an expression of the limits of one's own understanding. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that, that is the way of the human world. You both display passion in your words. Passion is what drives wars.
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The cure for racism is intermarriage. Resources are shared, an understanding of each others culture is learned.
Not government mandated sensitivity classes, inclusiveness doctrine, and affirmative action?

You mean if we just go for which girls or guys are hot everything works out?

(LOL...)
All of these substantially increase racism throughout the world. By giving people of a certain race an unfair advantage over others you are essentially forcing people who do not receive this unfair advantage to hold a grudge
By permitting them a sense of "fair," one ensures damnation.

When the citizens of a nation permit their government a sense of fair, they are inviting destruction by their government.

Smiley
"When the citizens of a nation permit their government... they are [inciting] destruction..."

(You imposed too many constraints. [You have reached the stone phase however.])
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The cure for racism is intermarriage. Resources are shared, an understanding of each others culture is learned.
Not government mandated sensitivity classes, inclusiveness doctrine, and affirmative action?

You mean if we just go for which girls or guys are hot everything works out?

(LOL...)
All of these substantially increase racism throughout the world. By giving people of a certain race an unfair advantage over others you are essentially forcing people who do not receive this unfair advantage to hold a grudge
By permitting them a sense of "fair," one ensures damnation.

When the citizens of a nation permit their government a sense of fair, they are inviting destruction by their government.

Smiley
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Can't you say that about any culture and/or area??
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The cure for racism is intermarriage. Resources are shared, an understanding of each others culture is learned.
Not government mandated sensitivity classes, inclusiveness doctrine, and affirmative action?

You mean if we just go for which girls or guys are hot everything works out?

(LOL...)
All of these substantially increase racism throughout the world. By giving people of a certain race an unfair advantage over others you are essentially forcing people who do not receive this unfair advantage to hold a grudge
By permitting them a sense of "fair," one ensures damnation.
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The cure for racism is intermarriage. Resources are shared, an understanding of each others culture is learned.
Not government mandated sensitivity classes, inclusiveness doctrine, and affirmative action?

You mean if we just go for which girls or guys are hot everything works out?

(LOL...)
All of these substantially increase racism throughout the world. By giving people of a certain race an unfair advantage over others you are essentially forcing people who do not receive this unfair advantage to hold a grudge
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Incredibly long article, but it was interesting in a twisted kind of way. Here are some random thoughts on it.

This punk rock girl is just flat crazy. She has totally internalized a bunch of US ghetto trash rap. With her vocabulary and attitudes, are you really sure that she is native filipina?

You are absolutely right on with this comment: White Privilege In The Philippines Means Getting Charged More For Everything. This decreases as you learn the language. If you are new and don't know any tagalog, expect to pay almost double for everything. If you can argue prices in tagalog (since they suddenly lose all ability to speak english), you can get that "white privilege tax" down to almost nothing.

I even had a cashier try to overcharge me in grocery store with fixed prices. I had picked up a string of 8 powdered milk for about 20 pesos each (not sure price anymore), which would be 160 pesos. She tried to charge me 160 pesos for each milk making the price 1280 pesos. I argued with her, then the manager. They each insisted that I was wrong on the price. Finally I walked to the counter, picked up a large powdered milk package for about a 100 pesos, told them to cancel the strip and I would buy the package instead. Suddenly, the manager spoke english and said "oh, never mind, I sell you those others for 20 pesos each". I could say I wasted half an hour arguing, but I will just think of it as a free tagalog lesson instead.

The easiest way to avoid all of this for most people is just to make sure you have a filipina girl with you. Let her do the negotiating. I guess that is where white privilege has it's benefits.

I like the girls calling me "joe". They usually smile and I take it as a term of endearment.

The cure for racism is intermarriage. Resources are shared, an understanding of each others culture is learned.

I disagree with the part of intermarriage I don't have anything against it but I believe every race white black Asian etc should keep there culture and not share it.
As a limakasidian entropist, I hold ethical and moral determination to be wholly without base save aberration.
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Not just westerners, most folks who are doing well have the illusion of omniscience
It's a human frailty not a race specific one

Completely agree - but it has to be said that the West is "succeeding" on an unprecedented level. If wealth is a measure of evolutionary success that is. And so, if we are just looking at the numbers, then westerners, even by your own reasoning, are indeed more likely to believe that they know everything.
   Supplant a wealthy westerner into a different culture, in a country that is less economically developed, and the effect/"illusion of omniscience" is complete.
Evolution does not succeed but manifests yet more exceeding aberration; therefore, "evolutionary success" is not rationally intelligible.
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Incredibly long article, but it was interesting in a twisted kind of way. Here are some random thoughts on it.

This punk rock girl is just flat crazy. She has totally internalized a bunch of US ghetto trash rap. With her vocabulary and attitudes, are you really sure that she is native filipina?

You are absolutely right on with this comment: White Privilege In The Philippines Means Getting Charged More For Everything. This decreases as you learn the language. If you are new and don't know any tagalog, expect to pay almost double for everything. If you can argue prices in tagalog (since they suddenly lose all ability to speak english), you can get that "white privilege tax" down to almost nothing.

I even had a cashier try to overcharge me in grocery store with fixed prices. I had picked up a string of 8 powdered milk for about 20 pesos each (not sure price anymore), which would be 160 pesos. She tried to charge me 160 pesos for each milk making the price 1280 pesos. I argued with her, then the manager. They each insisted that I was wrong on the price. Finally I walked to the counter, picked up a large powdered milk package for about a 100 pesos, told them to cancel the strip and I would buy the package instead. Suddenly, the manager spoke english and said "oh, never mind, I sell you those others for 20 pesos each". I could say I wasted half an hour arguing, but I will just think of it as a free tagalog lesson instead.

The easiest way to avoid all of this for most people is just to make sure you have a filipina girl with you. Let her do the negotiating. I guess that is where white privilege has it's benefits.

I like the girls calling me "joe". They usually smile and I take it as a term of endearment.

The cure for racism is intermarriage. Resources are shared, an understanding of each others culture is learned.

I disagree with the part of intermarriage I don't have anything against it but I believe every race white black Asian etc should keep there culture and not share it.
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Not just westerners, most folks who are doing well have the illusion of omniscience
It's a human frailty not a race specific one

Completely agree - but it has to be said that the West is "succeeding" on an unprecedented level. If wealth is a measure of evolutionary success that is. And so, if we are just looking at the numbers, then westerners, even by your own reasoning, are indeed more likely to believe that they know everything.
   Supplant a wealthy westerner into a different culture, in a country that is less economically developed, and the effect/"illusion of omniscience" is complete.
sr. member
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Knowledge could but approximate existence.
Not just westerners, most folks who are doing well have the illusion of omniscience
It's a human frailty not a race specific one
Id est, they succumb to assorted psychological heuristics and the fundamental attribution error.
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Not just westerners, most folks who are doing well have the illusion of omniscience
It's a human frailty not a race specific one
legendary
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This is true for most regions.
You will find Chinese who think they know everything as well...
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Cheesy

Funny how those westerners who 'don't know jack shit' have been going full steam ahead while fools like those fillipinos delude themselves thinking they are 'richer in experience'. Is there a need for further solid concrete proof in this world of their desperate, eager myopic thinking to comfort themselves with delusional sense of 'moral, mental superiority'?

As someone who most definitely wouldn't be mistaken for a 'westerner' (whatever the fuck fools think that means Smiley ), I find this kind of thinking by non-western people to be hilarious.

Also, 'ignorance' and 'racism'. LOL

I've been around the world and actually lived, not visited or stayed as a foreigner or outsider in various places and among different people. People are naive little fucks when they bitch about western nations being 'racists' or 'ignorant'. West is the west, and white people's countries, just as africa is for blacks, saudi arabia is for arabs, china and east asia for asians, india for indians, and so forth.

Deal with it. Those who deny this or claim their racial background takes precedence over whites in the west are no different than anyone who claim black africans do not belong in africa, indians do not belong in india, or chinese are not in possession of china.

It's a given that those who do not fit or otherwise proclaim identity that is separate and different from the central majority to be not given the same treatment as others. You do not get to keep a dual identity.

Now, let's posit a question: What specific argument, one that does not rely on wishful thinking, can you bring up to objectively support the idea that any non-westerner has attitude different then what was posted by the OP? Because I will gladly demonstrate how ignorant you are Cheesy
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Cheesy

Funny how those westerners who 'don't know jack shit' have been going full steam ahead while fools like those fillipinos delude themselves thinking they are 'richer in experience'. Is there a need for further solid concrete proof in this world of their desperate, eager myopic thinking to comfort themselves with delusional sense of 'moral, mental superiority'?

As someone who most definitely wouldn't be mistaken for a 'westerner' (whatever the fuck fools think that means Smiley ), I find this kind of thinking by non-western people to be hilarious.

Also, 'ignorance' and 'racism'. LOL

I've been around the world and actually lived, not visited or stayed as a foreigner or outsider in various places and among different people. People are naive little fucks when they bitch about western nations being 'racists' or 'ignorant'. West is the west, and white people's countries, just as africa is for blacks, saudi arabia is for arabs, china and east asia for asians, india for indians, and so forth.

Deal with it. Those who deny this or claim their racial background takes precedence over whites in the west are no different than anyone who claim black africans do not belong in africa, indians do not belong in india, or chinese are not in possession of china.

It's a given that those who do not fit or otherwise proclaim identity that is separate and different from the central majority to be not given the same treatment as others. You do not get to keep a dual identity.

Now, let's posit a question: What specific argument, one that does not rely on wishful thinking, can you bring up to objectively support the idea that any non-westerner has attitude different then what was posted by the OP? Because I will gladly demonstrate how ignorant you are Cheesy
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