Anonymous wrote:To the posters flaming about AA and Asians, please get your head out of the ivory tower and look at how Asian immigrants treated AA customers in inner city neighborhoods as close by as Baltimore. My family is mixed race AA. I have many uncles and male cousins who married Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Filipina women while in the military. All provided a good introduction to Asian cultures for my family, but were deeply ashamed of how the Asian immigrant community treated poor blacks and frustration at what their DH and half-black DC face.

1. MoCo is not inner city
2. not sure why this thread involves African Americans
3. There are many African Americans who treat other poor minorities horribly, too -- case in point: the black woman in CA who assaulted a 91 year old Hispanic man yelling at him to go back to his own country, though he's a legal resident here. As poorly as some Asian immigrants treat poor black people, they don't generally go around assaulting them.

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There is kind of, just like there is such a thing as "western culture". And the ^PP was talking about how Asian cultures value boys over girls, and that is pretty true across all Asian cultures, though that is changing.

There isn't such a thing as "western culture" either.

Who are you? And what fantasy have you been living in? Western culture (see the Enlightenment, Christianity, etc.) created the society that is so appealing to immigrants from around the world. If not, what draws people to leave their own homelands. Please don't say the economy because that was made possible by western culture also.

Bah! We came for the money and land. Not the White culture. If the culture was so great we would have adopted it. We came for financial gain. Just like the whites came and took from the native Americans for financial gain. They did not adopt the native American culture, did they?

BTW - USA is not the homeland of Whites. It is the home land of Native Americans. So it is appropriate that some of the original inhabitants of the land are returning back to it from south america.

Actually, Native Americans are mostly descendants of Asians.

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Off topic but the word you want is wary not weary. Weary means tired. Wary means cautious. Not trying to be a jerk but to save you from making this error in a future, possibly more important situation.

PP, really? I mean, really?!

So is the kind thing to let them keep misusing that word and have people think they are stupid? If I made a mistake like that, I'd rather find out on a message board than at a cocktail party.

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Anonymous wrote:To the posters flaming about AA and Asians, please get your head out of the ivory tower and look at how Asian immigrants treated AA customers in inner city neighborhoods as close by as Baltimore. My family is mixed race AA. I have many uncles and male cousins who married Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Filipina women while in the military. All provided a good introduction to Asian cultures for my family, but were deeply ashamed of how the Asian immigrant community treated poor blacks and frustration at what their DH and half-black DC face.

I agree that the older generation (as in my parents' generation) but my own generation seems very different to me. We make a concerted effort to unteach our children what our parents and the previous generation believed. Discrimination against the races, be it between whites and blacks/asians or asians against blacks/whites or blacks against asians/whites, were prevalent in the old generation. I feel a lot of the time I am judged because the previous generation did something that I would not imagine ever to do and it's disheartening to try to be better when you're constantly chastise for something you did not do.

DP. Yes, it's disheartening, but my advice (which you didn't ask for) is:

1. keep doing what you're doing
2. understand where the people who say these things are coming from
3. don't take it personally. If it's not about you, then it's not about you.

Anonymous wrote:To the posters flaming about AA and Asians, please get your head out of the ivory tower and look at how Asian immigrants treated AA customers in inner city neighborhoods as close by as Baltimore. My family is mixed race AA. I have many uncles and male cousins who married Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Filipina women while in the military. All provided a good introduction to Asian cultures for my family, but were deeply ashamed of how the Asian immigrant community treated poor blacks and frustration at what their DH and half-black DC face.

I agree that the older generation (as in my parents' generation) but my own generation seems very different to me. We make a concerted effort to unteach our children what our parents and the previous generation believed. Discrimination against the races, be it between whites and blacks/asians or asians against blacks/whites or blacks against asians/whites, were prevalent in the old generation. I feel a lot of the time I am judged because the previous generation did something that I would not imagine ever to do and it's disheartening to try to be better when you're constantly chastise for something you did not do.

I would say that this racial decisiveness is not present in the Churchill community. There's more respect than present from those in this thread.

To the posters flaming about AA and Asians, please get your head out of the ivory tower and look at how Asian immigrants treated AA customers in inner city neighborhoods as close by as Baltimore. My family is mixed race AA. I have many uncles and male cousins who married Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Filipina women while in the military. All provided a good introduction to Asian cultures for my family, but were deeply ashamed of how the Asian immigrant community treated poor blacks and frustration at what their DH and half-black DC face.

Anonymous wrote:I would want to k ow this. We are Black and would be weary of sending our child to a majority Asian school, given how poorly Asians treat Blacks and don’t support or defend us when it comes to social justice issues.

Are you serious??
I teach my children to have respect for every person- that is part of my “Asian” culture . The only group we place above all others are the elderly. We also value education and talk about history a lot and so they are very aware of the history of slavery and civil rights in this country as well as in other countries. We also discuss the legacy of colonialism (both negative and positive) in different countries. We spend a lot of time in museums and we are very familiar with the American history museum, the freer/sackler, the Native American and the African American museums and of course the Holocaust museum
Maybe I am naive but I feel like I have hopefully imparted an awareness, appreciation and respect for all the varied cultures and historical experiences that make up the tapestry of modern America

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There is kind of, just like there is such a thing as "western culture". And the ^PP was talking about how Asian cultures value boys over girls, and that is pretty true across all Asian cultures, though that is changing.

There isn't such a thing as "western culture" either.

Who are you? And what fantasy have you been living in? Western culture (see the Enlightenment, Christianity, etc.) created the society that is so appealing to immigrants from around the world. If not, what draws people to leave their own homelands. Please don't say the economy because that was made possible by western culture also.

Bah! We came for the money and land. Not the White culture. If the culture was so great we would have adopted it. We came for financial gain. Just like the whites came and took from the native Americans for financial gain. They did not adopt the native American culture, did they?

BTW - USA is not the homeland of Whites. It is the home land of Native Americans. So it is appropriate that some of the original inhabitants of the land are returning back to it from south america.

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Here's a perfectly nice house in the Churchill Cluster, costing nowhere near a million dollars. Not all of Potomac is giant fancy McMansions.

https://www.redfin.com/MD/Potomac/11511-Glen-Rd-20854/home/10606072

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Here is another home currently on the market in the Churchill cluster that is no where near a million dollars: $596,000

https://www.redfin.com/MD/Rockville/11714-Tifton-Dr-20854/home/10505999

BTW - many of the people who live in the really big and expensive houses send their kids to private school.

That's a short sale.

A short sale with black mold. So, a tear down. PP - you aren't doing yourself any favors here. If the only house a middle class family could afford would also sicken them, it is time to accept the neighborhood is upper class.

Mold doesn't require for a house to be torn down to remediate. A short sale just means the bank needs to approve the sale because they will take accept a lost at settlement.

PP, I was just showing an example. My house was built in 1970. It had water in the basement, outdated baths and the original kitchen but we got it at a good price then did the renovations a little at a time to afford the neighborhood. We have never been sickened because of our home. Many of my neighbors chose to do the same. It was a choice to buy an older home and have an easier commute to work than a brand new home but add two hours a day traveling to DC.

I'll bite. As an asian in a mostly white school district, I really do worry that these white kids are going to be a bad influence on my child because white people do so many drugs and commit a lot of white collar crimes. This is why I wish I could send my child to a primarily Asian school. So we could be with our own kind.

See how stupid you sound, OP?

Anonymous wrote:I would want to k ow this. We are Black and would be weary of sending our child to a majority Asian school, given how poorly Asians treat Blacks and don’t support or defend us when it comes to social justice issues.

wow...so much racism in your statement. I grew up with a black best friend, and I'm Asian American. My son wrote multiple papers this year in his CES class discussion the social injustice blacks had faced and continues to encounter. It saddens me to see you inject your own prejudice and make such an unjust blanket statement.

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There is kind of, just like there is such a thing as "western culture". And the ^PP was talking about how Asian cultures value boys over girls, and that is pretty true across all Asian cultures, though that is changing.

There isn't such a thing as "western culture" either.

Who are you? And what fantasy have you been living in? Western culture (see the Enlightenment, Christianity, etc.) created the society that is so appealing to immigrants from around the world. If not, what draws people to leave their own homelands. Please don't say the economy because that was made possible by western culture also.

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Anonymous wrote:

Here's a perfectly nice house in the Churchill Cluster, costing nowhere near a million dollars. Not all of Potomac is giant fancy McMansions.

https://www.redfin.com/MD/Potomac/11511-Glen-Rd-20854/home/10606072

Sorry - missed typed

Here is another home currently on the market in the Churchill cluster that is no where near a million dollars: $596,000

https://www.redfin.com/MD/Rockville/11714-Tifton-Dr-20854/home/10505999

BTW - many of the people who live in the really big and expensive houses send their kids to private school.

That's a short sale.

A short sale with black mold. So, a tear down. PP - you aren't doing yourself any favors here. If the only house a middle class family could afford would also sicken them, it is time to accept the neighborhood is upper class.

Anonymous wrote:

Here's a perfectly nice house in the Churchill Cluster, costing nowhere near a million dollars. Not all of Potomac is giant fancy McMansions.

https://www.redfin.com/MD/Potomac/11511-Glen-Rd-20854/home/10606072

Sorry - missed typed

Here is another home currently on the market in the Churchill cluster that is no where near a million dollars: $596,000

https://www.redfin.com/MD/Rockville/11714-Tifton-Dr-20854/home/10505999

BTW - many of the people who live in the really big and expensive houses send their kids to private school.

That's a short sale.