I work a truck gate for access control.......
We average 18 trucks per shift , 3 a day , 7 days . 5 in 20 or close to it are asian Indians or from points west known once as Persia . Another 1 of the 20 are some variety of Russian or Slovic . I tell you if I had to choose , and there's no race bait or malice involved here I'd rather stand next to the to the northern Asians than those of the others . They ooze contempt walk around cocked and locked almost like they're looking for an excuse . The Northern Asians mostly have a humble pride and hold themselves to a standard of communication that leaves them sometimes frustrated . The Persians etc are angry if you misunderstood them . The only way you'd know the Russians etc is by accent and they have a sense of humor. "Where am I from ? I raised in the Smokey Mountains in Georgia . You don't know my accent ? " Generally followed up with a big grin while you're trying to figure out how the Virginia famed mountains get to Georgia........ "Ural get it pret soon" .
22 yr ago today a piece of my soul was forever stolen away . As much as those little voices of moral compass do battle I strive to be professional and nonbiased . But sometimes it's really hard .
It's not that we the citizens and naturalized and in process citizens have changed it is that there are so many here that hate what we are and our history. We are still very much the great melting pot , it's just that it's not lead , tin , antimony any more it's fast becoming babbitt and we're getting to the point where we can't stir in much more lead free solder to keep the copper in solution .
Cheer your team , I wouldn't even hold a grudge if a guy jumped on the bar doing the victory dance if Mongolia hammered us in Olympic basketball. Look at soccer ...... For a moment everyone cheered for the the Jamaican bobsled team , they lost their placing but we're still the heros of the day .
I guess I'm just a deep rooted bitter Yank . I was raised by people that lived through the Spanish American, Philippine insurrection, WWI , Spanish flu , 1928-1931 , WWII (that were in Honolulu 12/7/41) , Korea, and Viet Nam . I never once knew them to hold any grudge or show any bias despite half of them being raised south of the Mason Dixson . Heck the day I was born my great Aunt , the one with a triage in her living room that Sunday morning in Honolulu, was in Wolfsburg picking colors for a brand new 1966 Karman Gia .
Maybe that's the problem with us Yanks . Maybe we have had so many "Rocky comebacks" and bought so many beers we couldn't drink for the bleeding teeth that we just don't know what revenge is anymore , we let the first punch land then we go find the ring leader and stomp em a new mud hole and dust off the hapless lakies wash them up give them a new suit and send them on their ways . It's catching up with us .