Forum Overview :: Earthbound :: Topical New York Times article on racial roommates

[quote name="Fussbett"][quote name="Quétinbec"]Asians are the most racist people on earth. That's why the English used them and the equally racist Indians as slave labour. You can easily dominate a racist people because they <i>understand you</i> when you say they're inferior because of their race, because they feel the same way about some other race. They accept it. Look how much more cooperative they were as slaves than the blacks who didn't have as much experience with different races.[/quote] <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/08/us/08roommate.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1&ref=us" target="asians">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/08/us/08roommate.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1&ref=us</a> [quote cite="The New York Times"]Several studies have shown that living with a roommate of a different race changes students’ attitudes. One, from the University of California at Los Angeles, generally found decreased prejudice among students with different-race roommates — but those who roomed with Asian-Americans, the group that scored the highest on measures of prejudice, became more prejudiced themselves.[/quote][/quote]