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Re: 1916 Guide Shows What the First Road Trips Were Like

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Post by kristopolous » Mon, May 23, 2016, 12:50 AM UTC

cynicalkane wrote: post #19

jacquesm wrote: post #18

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Even in Canada today you can still see instances of this. Fairly disgusting, to put it mildly. I found this out when we employed the one person of color in the community as a gas station attendant, the reverse situation sketched in the wikipedia article linked. Large customers would contact me and pointedly demand we fire the person or they'd cease doing business (this was fine with me, the nearest alternative was a…

How long ago was this? I thought you were a technology consultant living in the Netherlands.

Do you keep mental tabs on the claims of users? What's my file say?

Re: 1916 Guide Shows What the First Road Trips Were Like

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Post by mercer » Mon, May 23, 2016, 10:23 AM UTC

slededit wrote: post #50

jacquesm wrote: post #33

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Northern Ontario, spot on. But even in the cities I've seen plenty of it, just more clever variations.

Growing up it wasn't something we really thought of. People of all sorts were always around us. In high school we even used to play the game of trying to pronounce someone's name "correctly" (Which could be really difficult if you didn't have the right accent). I had heard from people about 10 years older than me that they got flak for interracial marriage. It seemed absolutely alien to me at the time.

I know entire families who got split in half because one half decided to become Evangelical Christians while the other half remained Dutch Reformed. It's not the same thing, but similarly alien to me.

Re: 1916 Guide Shows What the First Road Trips Were Like

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Post by jacquesm » Mon, May 23, 2016, 9:58 PM UTC

mercer wrote: post #52

slededit wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Growing up it wasn't something we really thought of. People of all sorts were always around us. In high school we even used to play the game of trying to pronounce someone's name "correctly" (Which could be really difficult if you didn't have the right accent). I had heard from people about 10 years older than me that they got flak for interracial marriage. It seemed absolutely alien to me at the time.

I know entire families who got split in half because one half decided to become Evangelical Christians while the other half remained Dutch Reformed. It's not the same thing, but similarly alien to me.

Sad.