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tomc1985

> There is a tendency in the West to view all minorities as somehow being the same.

Is there? While my experience comes from living in a cosmopolitan border town, it is hard to imagine anyone seriously lumping Asians in with Africans, short of the outright rascists raging against "immigrants"

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But what you will absolutely find is people for example lumping Asian people together, whether theyre from Japan, China, Korea, etc.

Huh, most people do not have time and patience to learn all the differences unless they absolutely have to. Back in northern India anyone from southern state is just South indian , no knowledge about Telugu, Kannadiga, Tamil, Malayali and so on.

Similarly in south India I wouldn't be surprised if a typical local think all North Indians are same butter chicken/paneer eating assholes.

The following sentence clearly mentions what kind of lumping takes place; "All Africans" / "All Asians" etc.

it's worth noting that those with more power have greater potential to cause damage with their haphazard lumping

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