Zimmerman Martin Case

Thats common in the US as well, I'm sure you've heard of China Town areas in large cities, there are places that have more minorities, and many rural communities are mostly caucasian.

BTW You really like Valentines day don't you?
 
Yes, I've been to a least two Chinatowns in the USA. (San Francisco and New York City.)

Dunno where you're from, stranger, but round these here parts we call it Hoimun Day.
 
Rural America is, depending on where you live, majority white, majority Latino, majority Native American, or some mix of the three. Generally a mix of at least Latino and white. Cities are segregated more by economic status than anything else (like cities anywhere). So if the working class of a city tends to be predominantly African-American or Latino, the working-class neighborhoods are overwhelmingly that ethnicity. But wealthy people of said race live with wealthy people, not with other people of said race. And poor white people live in the working-class neighborhoods (even if those neighborhoods are predominantly black, as was the case with Eminem growing up), not with wealthier white people.



Because he's multi-ethnic. If people had an aversion to America being a "melting pot", then subconsiously or consciously, they'd be less likely to vote for a multi-ethnic candidate.

My best friends in middle school were (1) an Israeli national whose family was in the US for a couple years; (2) a half-Iranian, half-English kid, (3) a seven-eighths Navajo, one-eighth Irish kid, and (2) a half-Japanese, half-Indian kid. I also hung out with with a couple of Chinese-American kids and about a half-dozen white people of various western-European ancestry. I myself was half Russian Jew, half-WASP mutt. This is not an exaggeration. And this was in Colorado, not the middle of San Francisco or something.
 
But most Asian-Americans in San Francisco don't live in "Chinatown." Nowadays it's more of a themed commercial district than a matter of de facto ethnic segregation. I'm assuming the same is true of the "Chinatown" in NYC and it was certainly true of the "Chinatown" in Boston.

Remember that a third of San Francisco's 3-million-person population is Asian (source), yet "Chinatown" is one square mile (source). It's a commercial area and tourist trap complete with its own webpage: http://www.sanfranciscochinatown.com/ It shouldn't be taken as a commentary on American daily life any more than Disneyland should.
 
I got that impression, especially with the one in NYC. And even more so with Little Italy: it felt like a museum for tourists.

But at the other end of the spectrum you hear about districts like Bensonhurst, which sound like a bit of a no-go area for blacks.
 
One person was killed in a racially-motivated killing twenty-four years ago there. But that doesn't mean it's a "no-go area for blacks," any more than a rabbi being stabbed in Paris means that Paris as a whole is a "no-go area for Jews" as a whole. Here is an article about the current demographic mix of that particular neighborhood.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bensonhurst,_Brooklyn
 
I suppose these things never stand still.

There have been big changes to the ethnic make-up of my own area over the last few years. But people who don't live round here don't see that. They think they know, but they see one group and base all their assumptions on that. It's like a stereotype.
 
Stalking someone is not "stand your ground". If we apply that logic then I can stalk anybody, make him mad, throw a punch at me, so I can shot him with a big smile on my face. This way, I can kill anybody that I want too.

A: How many people have you killed today?
B: I only killed 16 today. 2 guys that I stalked, they just ran too fast that I couldn't force them to throw a punch at me.
 
This kind of sounds like "look and act more white, or we have every reason to think you're a drug-addled violent thief.

As for the hoodie, it was raining wasn't it?
 
Doesn't matter. It not a "be more white" thing either unless you missed the period of the papers over here flipping their minds over any person under 21 wearing one. And most of that was aimed at white kids.
 
It doesn't matter if it's raining or not? Hoods should be purely decorative?

The hoodie part isn't the crux of the matter.

It's the message that if you present yourself in a way that does not conform to the cultural majority, you will be viewed with suspicion.

I don't see it as being different from presuming any man with a beard, wearing a taqiya and kaftan is involved in jihadist activities.
 
I'm not agreeing with it, I'm just saying that hoodies are viewed as basically the western equivalent of a beard and a dishdasha.

A lot of society judges people who don't conform to the majority, whether its hoodies, goth clothing, tattoos, weird hair or body mods. Humans seem to have a tendency for bigotry.
 
Yes, but I never heard of anyone getting shot for wearing 'goth' clothing. Which is a shame.
 
Wasn't there an incident in recent years where someone got targeted because they were a Goth?

They died, if I recall correctly.


Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Sophie_Lancaster
 
There has actually been a policy of zero tolerance on Goth attacks in one of the UK police forces, I think Newcastle but may be completely wrong.

Mitch
 
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