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- From: sepstei1@cc.swarthmore.edu (stephen epstein)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.korean
- Subject: Re: korean guys...
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- Date: 21 Nov 92 15:01:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.174407.18025@tc.cornell.edu>,
- jfe@alchemy.tn.cornell.edu (Brian Chung) writes:
- >
- > Hey, if I don't get minority consideration, then you shouldn't
- > either. :) (This is actually a only a half smiley.) Correct me if I'm
- > wrong, but I always thought the Jews weren't Caucasian, just like anyone
- > else from the Middle East wouldn't be classified as Caucasian. Oh yeah,
- > I was speaking in anthropologic terms, of course.
- >
- I think that for most Jews in this country ancestry becomes a little mixed
- up in terms of racial type. All my great-grandparents made it over here
- from Eastern Europe (not too far from the Caucasus itself) at the turn of
- the century. They were there for centuries and centuries and I'd be
- surprised if there wasn't some intermarriage after the Diaspora. Strictly
- speaking in anthropologic terms, I suppose I would be classified as Semitic
- rather than Caucasian, but there's no way I could pass myself for anything
- but "white" in this society. (And thank God I wasn't living in Europe
- fifty years ago, where I certainly would be made to feel that I was
- different).
-
- Again, a "correct me if I'm wrong:" Don't you get minority consideration in
- applying for jobs? Was the half-smiley because you think that employers
- only pay the idea lip service or because you think that Korean-Americans,
- being a relatively successful minority group, are generally excluded from
- affirmative action plans? I suppose this question could lead to a whole
- new and interesting thread. How accepted do most of you (I speak here
- primarily to second generation and 1.5 generation Korean-Americans, who
- consider English their first language) feel by American society? Speaking
- as a member of a different sort of minority, I would say that although I'm
- aware anti-Semitism exists out there, I've never experienced it personally
- in my whole life (at least that I'm aware of--e.g. nobody has ever called
- me a "kike" or anything like that to my face...)
-
- Stephen
-