<div class="quote_poster">Quoting shapecity:</div><div class="quote_post">What airline was this? I'll make sure to boycott it.</div> I think it was American Airlines, but, to tell you the truth, I'm having a hard time remembering. It happened a few months after 9/11, so there was still a lot of tension everywhere. Also, my dad really downplayed the whole thing. I remember my relatives trying to convince him bring the issue to court (he probably would've got something too, because the airline got really apologetic all of a sudden), but he said that he didn't care about the money. He just wanted an apology and for them to be more aware of the differences in culture (Sikhs got mistaken for Muslims a lot after 9/11).
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">My dad got it the worst: on a flight back from Dallas, they kicked him off the plane, because some dude was afraid to sit near him and complained that he was being disruptive.</div> Are you f'in seriopus dude. The fact that your Dad is a Sikh first of all and the fact that he hadn't done anything "disruptive" (I'm assuming) equates to the chance of that being a bigass lawsuit. No, forget the lawsuit, if that was me I would have wanted to make that public news and demanded an apology out of the air line. That's despicable.
Wow, I never realized all you guys from the GTA (Toronto) are desi/tamil. Now I feel like such a minority here cuz I'm the lone non-brown dude. I'm not sure what kind of group I'd categorize myself in. I'm filipino so in high school I naturally ended up hanging with the flip group. A lot of them were very well respected by our peers (one being the best break dancer in the school, another being one of the best ballers) so we wouldn't be categorized as nerds. However for me, I was always the quiet, honour roll student so relative to the rest of the group, I would be considered a complete nerd.....
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Chutney:</div><div class="quote_post">I'm partly joking. I get that treatment too, a bit. But, Toronto's airport is situated right next to a huge South Asian community (they immigrate here and are too lazy to find a home away from the airport?) and the staff is generally pretty diverse. I hate airports outside Canada, though. People stare and you feel like your in a zoo. My dad got it the worst: on a flight back from Dallas, they kicked him off the plane, because some dude was afraid to sit near him and complained that he was being disruptive.</div> My dad hasn't gotten it that bad, yet. He's a federal agent, so whenever he flies, his job asks him to be sort of a walk on Air Marshal because he can walk around with a concealed weapon. He's always gets double checked. Last year, we made it all the way to the boarding phase, and the lady reads the last name on our tickets and asks him to see his credentials. She then looks at the ticket again and says, "we're going to have to re-check you sir, there was a mistake here, you're not authorized for the firearm." She "escorted" us back to security and had them re-check our items, carry-ons, and everything. When they checked my dad again, security was like why are we checking him again, and she said "I don't know, did you guys do this right. Is he allowed to have this on the plane?" And, finally, she wanted my little brother's cast checked. He had a severe broken arm at the time, and she wanted his cast checked for explosive material, so security had to do that. Utter BS man. Sometimes, I really do hate people. <div class="quote_poster">Quoting M Two One:</div><div class="quote_post">That is rediculous, seriously. Flying and even going to the airport in general is getting worse and worse these days. I remember in 04' I was connecting flights at CDG - Paris and I had a small wallet chain on. They asked me to take it off despite it being barelly able to fit around someone's wrist. I just simply said, "ok fine I'll take it off and put it in my luggage" and instead they continued to take me by my jacket and slammed me into a wall face first and a military guy pointed his assult rifle at my face until they took the chain off and searched me. I nearly missed my flight because of this which would've forced me to stay in the airport waiting for the next flight two days later. The only ones who are suffering from this "safety" BS are the people who have nothing to do with the terrorism.</div> Believe this if you want, cuz this is 100% truth, two years ago, I got a huge knife through security, twice. Once through LAX when I was departing, and then when I was returning from Detroit, I got the same knife through Detroit Metro. The knife was about this big, http://files.myopera.com/kg1.foresights/al...s.png_thumb.jpg It was a hunting knife, very sharp. I didn't know it was in my bag, honestly. My flippin' brother was lookin' through my CD's on the plane, and out of no where he goes MATT WHAT IS THIS (thank God everyone around us was asleep), and flippin' there is a huge ass knife in my backpack. Security is a joke. I don't think airports are any safer.
Tamils are crazy in the GTA. I swear today at the Uni Fair in TO there were hundreds of them, all of them in their big clique, with their permed/long/curly hair. I know quite a few tamils from connections (I live right beside a Tamil co-op building infact), and if you're tamil and you have beef, a whole bunch of them will come down. Like every other murder or crime incident I see on the news in the GTA has something to do with Tamils. They're also like the biggest hustlers in the GTA, with their credit card scams, drugs and all. I actually have a bit Tamil in me from my dad's side (not sri lankan), though you can't tell a bit by looking at me. I try overall to avoid affiliating myself with a lot of them because they can f' you over in a second. You can easily tell the differences between the dangerous ones and the good/nice ones. I'm not really affiliated with any of those, but the people I chill with from school are brown, with some black friends who I don't chill with as much. From the people I chill with, I dress the most "gangsta", but dress proper...like Jay-Z. I'm part of the "popular" people at school, in big part because me and my friends knew 18, 19 year olds with big reps in our school when we were in our first and second year in school. Not to turn this into a race thing, but surprisingly I don't have many white friends, only two who I really talk to from school, and a couple of girls who I talk to on occasion. Though it's probably because all the white/caucasion people in my school are like punks, weed heads, rockers or something that I'm not really into.
P.A.P, what are you background wise? I'm guessing you're Afghani or something along those lines? I have an Afghani friend who chills with all brown people but knows enough black people as well. I seriously only chill with brown people...that's how it goes in my school, you don't see much mixed (race-wise) cliques when it comes to people who are more so "popular" in school. The less known or less "popular" people, like the band guys or the guys who never talk might have a clique with different kinds of people (a quiet brown, asian and black guy) or whatever, but that's it. It's cool how everyone has thier own clique in school though...well most people anyway. Well, as it goes in my school, I'm not close to any white guys, black guys or asian guys. I know people from each race of course but I rarely if ever chill with them. I think the last time I chilled with people of a different race was in Grade 10...it's not that any one has anything against anyone, but that's just the way our school secularizes itself in terms of cliques. As far as 'rep' goes, I honestly don't give a sh*t as much as some of the other people I know. Some people will talk tough for everythingggg just in terms to build thier rep, which is pathetic because being hard won't do anything when you're outside of highschool.
This seems to be turning into more of a "what nationality are you?" thread, rather than a " What stereotype are you?" thread...
I go to a school that is mainly all white. If I had to guess, there are probably around 30 students that aren't white so there aren't a lot of racial problems or cliques. Everyone hangs out with everyone and most people don't even think about race. My middle school was entirely different however. Everyone chilled with other guys that are the same race as them. There were black groups, white groups, Hispanic groups, and stuff like that. Sometimes, two groups would fight just because they didn't like the other one (for example, rednecks vs. hispanics or blacks vs. skaters). It was crazy and my high school is so much better.
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post"> My middle school was entirely different however. Everyone chilled with other guys that are the same race as them. There were black groups, white groups, Hispanic groups, and stuff like that. Sometimes, two groups would fight just because they didn't like the other one (for example, rednecks vs. hispanics or blacks vs. skaters). It was crazy and my high school is so much better. </div> Sorry to go off topic, but the old high school I went to in grade 9 was like that. It was always black vs. brown (cause blacks were a minority in terms of population in the school..it was like 95% brown)...now (in my new school) if there's ever beef, it's always black vs. black or white vs. white or brown vs. brown. High school is quite funny, honestly.
I don't know what I am. I'm gonna try out for the basketball team. I get A's in everything except for algebra.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting TheBlackMamba:</div><div class="quote_post">Believe this if you want, cuz this is 100% truth, two years ago, I got a huge knife through security, twice. Once through LAX when I was departing, and then when I was returning from Detroit, I got the same knife through Detroit Metro. The knife was about this big, http://files.myopera.com/kg1.foresights/al...s.png_thumb.jpg It was a hunting knife, very sharp. I didn't know it was in my bag, honestly. My flippin' brother was lookin' through my CD's on the plane, and out of no where he goes MATT WHAT IS THIS (thank God everyone around us was asleep), and flippin' there is a huge ass knife in my backpack. Security is a joke. I don't think airports are any safer.</div> Of course I believe you, my friend got one of his guns packed into the plane without notice before. I never wrote that the security is any better anywhere in the world, I'm just letting you know that they can be abusive for asbolutely no reason. Is there a reason two guys have to slam me into a wall over a small wallet chain and another pointing a gun at my face with the intent to possibly end my life over nothing? I really don't think so.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting M Two One:</div><div class="quote_post">Of course I believe you, my friend got one of his guns packed into the plane without notice before. I never wrote that the security is any better anywhere in the world, I'm just letting you know that they can be abusive for asbolutely no reason. Is there a reason two guys have to slam me into a wall over a small wallet chain and another pointing a gun at my face with the intent to possibly end my life over nothing? I really don't think so.</div> No, I'm not trying to counter-argue you. I was just saying, cuz I saw the word security in your posts and that's all I read. I completely agree with you. They go to extreme measures to make it seem like they're trying to change something, but they're not. I don't think security has improved one bit.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Junoon:</div><div class="quote_post">P.A.P, what are you background wise? I'm guessing you're Afghani or something along those lines? I have an Afghani friend who chills with all brown people but knows enough black people as well. </div> Ah, not close. I'm Mauritian (born and raised in Canada/'sauga though). I often get mistaken for being coolie (guyanese), indian or mixed with black
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting P.A.P.:</div><div class="quote_post"> From the people I chill with, I dress the most "gangsta", but dress proper...like Jay-Z.</div> Word... I don't wear jerseys--I'm 17+; give me a crisp pair of jeans and some button-ups.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting P.A.P.:</div><div class="quote_post">Tamils are crazy in the GTA. I swear today at the Uni Fair in TO there were hundreds of them, all of them in their big clique, with their permed/long/curly hair. I know quite a few tamils from connections (I live right beside a Tamil co-op building infact), and if you're tamil and you have beef, a whole bunch of them will come down. Like every other murder or crime incident I see on the news in the GTA has something to do with Tamils. They're also like the biggest hustlers in the GTA, with their credit card scams, drugs and all. </div> the facts are not on your side. most homicides are black on black, unfortunately. i had a sociology prof named ezeonu who now teaches at brock who did his thesis on this very subject (black on black crime). there is a landmark study released on new years in 2004 by UofT criminologists who found that if u were not black, u would have a statistically negligible chance of getting killed in the gta. i concur with fraud but u need to understand that tamils are bottom feeders at best. from what i heard- the russian mob and triads run everything drug related as well as fraud at the highest levels.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting deception:</div><div class="quote_post">the facts are not on your side. most homicides are black on black, unfortunately. i had a sociology prof named ezeonu who now teaches at brock who did his thesis on this very subject (black on black crime). there is a landmark study released on new years in 2004 by UofT criminologists who found that if u were not black, u would have a statistically negligible chance of getting killed in the gta..</div> Well I wasn't basing it on facts, I was just saying making a bold statement about the increasing crimes in the GTA involving Tamils. Interesting comments about black people in the GTA though from the UofT criminologists.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting P.A.P.:</div><div class="quote_post">Well I wasn't basing it on facts, I was just saying making a bold statement about the increasing crimes in the GTA involving Tamils. Interesting comments about black people in the GTA though from the UofT criminologists.</div> criminologists base their findings on facts, your were completely off-base. and for everyone else- the uoft homicide rate is relatively low compared to most major cities.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting deception:</div><div class="quote_post">criminologists base their findings on facts</div> Really...I wouldn't have guessed.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting P.A.P.:</div><div class="quote_post">Really...I wouldn't have guessed.</div> yeah intelligence is kinda a prerequiste to understand their findings as well.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting deception:</div><div class="quote_post">yeah intelligence is kinda a prerequiste to understand their findings as well.</div> At what point did I show I did not understand their findings? I wasn't aware of their findings tell you mentioned it, where I then said "interesting", well because I found it interesting. I didn't at any point disagree with you and you for whatever reason decide to state the obvious that they base their findings on facts. I am not a criminologist that attends UofT, nor did I research everything about crimes in the GTA before posting. My comments about Tamils and their involvement in crimes in the GTA where I said " Like every other murder or crime incident I see on the news in the GTA has something to do with Tamils" was simply an exaggeration based on me hearing or seeing more Tamil related crimes.
