Time to fight back: RANT

[Losty]

A group of people from Germany would be a group of Germans.
Humor me, what is a group of people mostly from Germany but a few are from France and some are from Italy? Would you still call them a group of Germans? No. You would call them a group of Europeans maybe.

Wait just a minute! You can't just go around calling people Europeans, that is about as racist as it comes!! (Double exclamation point, just to drive home the anger) I am a European, but I could be African, or Asian, or Australian, or even from Mars. Just because I'm white, speak English and dress snappily doesn't mean you should jump straight to European.

I could be AFrican...I mean, I'm clearly not, but I could be.

Congratulations on being funny and original -_-

[Hoopington]

Wait just a minute! You can't just go around calling people Europeans, that is about as racist as it comes!! (Double exclamation point, just to drive home the anger) I am a European, but I could be African, or Asian, or Australian, or even from Mars. Just because I'm white, speak English and dress snappily doesn't mean you should jump straight to European.

I could be AFrican...I mean, I'm clearly not, but I could be.

Congratulations on being funny and original -_-

Thanks for seeing the point.

[Cinjin]

You strawmanned me, Cin. I have nothing else to say here.

If I did, it was unintentional - and I'll let you have the last word if it would make you feel better about the matter.

[kılıç_mehmet]

I like the "hispanics" or whatever they prefer to be called. They are in many ways, like us. Good people, hard-working. They value family, moustaches, their culture and customs, and band together when they are in a foreign land.
They even eat flatbread, beans and rice.
If I were to live in America, I'd want to live where these guys live.
I'm sure we'd get along just fine.

[Bittersmart]

This.

You're not going to change them.

No one is asking them to, I just moved here. I just want common decency back

You're not going to get that living around a lot of other people, no matter what ethnicity they are.

That's why we moved out to the country. It took 3 years of saving money, but we did it, and it's made all the difference.

[Rahul]

You consider Norfolk, VA a "smaller town"? Norfolk is part of a conglomerate of cities like Virginia Beach, Hampton, Chesapeake, Newport News, Portsmouth, etc called collectively "Hampton Roads". It is the most heavily populated area of the state at around 1.7 million people.

And Norfolk is the second most ghetto area of it after Portsmouth. I lived there several years when I was in the Navy.

I'm starting to think you've never been in a smaller town except for a drive through.

My home town had approximately 750 people in it when I was growing up. Now that's a small town.

Where I live now is almost to 100,000 people. That's plenty big enough for me, thank you. My in-laws are always shocked at how friendly people are down here when they come to visit from upstate NY. Norfolk never seemed very friendly to me at all.

This shows you haven't traveled but you're right I did like the place, I use to go there quite often to visit my grandmother. But the place I was thinking was my fathers brother, which was north carolina. So I do apologize, I guess it came up because it was still one of my top favorite states.

I haven't traveled? I've been to England, Scotland, France, Spain, Italy, Turkey, Malta, Israel, Palestine, Bahrain, Iceland, and Cyprus overseas. Around here I've been all over Texas, Chicago, DC, Miami, Philly, Boston, Phoenix, LA, Shreveport, New Orleans, Hawaii, New York, and driven between most of those places. A lot more notable cities but I don't want to keep dragging on.

I don't consider a metropoliton area with over a million people in it a "small town" because over 95% of towns in the US do not have anywhere near that number by far.