XP from WW: Racial post of the day

[wrathofkuus]

What is up with Indian people letting their kids run wild in restaurants?

Yeah, yeah, I know there are some white people who do this too, but I swear, every time I go to an Indian restaurant, if there is a family there, it involves kids who spend so much of their time sprinting and weaving around the tables and bellowing at each other that I'm not entirely sure they even HAVE seats. Never ever do I see Indian families with the kids sitting the hell down and behaving. Is this a part of their culture?

[fussbucket]

This must just be you because I don't even know what kind of Indian you're talking about.

[smock]

I've never seen this.

I *did* however see an Indian waiter call a diner's fiancee old. Now THAT was fireworks.

[wrathofkuus]

Oct 15, 2012 15:26:02 GMT -5 fussbucket said:

This must just be you because I don't even know what kind of Indian you're talking about.

Is there a kind other than from India?

[fussbucket]

Yes. The kind from America.

[smock]

Are there restaurants that serve American Indian food? Like native Americans?

[fussbucket]

Oct 15, 2012 15:29:40 GMT -5 smock said:

Are there restaurants that serve American Indian food? Like native Americans?

You never ate here?

seattletimes.com/html/allyoucaneat/2017814562_off_the_rez_brings_native_amer.html

[wrathofkuus]

Oct 15, 2012 15:28:59 GMT -5 fussbucket said:

Yes. The kind from America.

Are they called Indians again? Weird.

[partiallysunny]

I've never seen what you are speaking of.

[PinkSquirrel]

I work with an Indian from India. He sometimes gives me food his wife cooks to try. Volia. Indian food without obnoxious kids. I win.

[fussbucket]

Oct 15, 2012 15:31:49 GMT -5 wrathofkuus said:

Oct 15, 2012 15:28:59 GMT -5 fussbucket said:

Yes. The kind from America.

Are they called Indians again? Weird.

I think most regular folks nowadays do refer to "native Americans" but according to the U.S. Census Bureau they are "American Indians/Alaska Natives."

[housegeek]

I remember I went to a place on a field trip when I was little where we ate that rock mashed corn meal stuff for lunch...

[wrathofkuus]

Oct 15, 2012 15:33:22 GMT -5 fussbucket said:

Oct 15, 2012 15:31:49 GMT -5 wrathofkuus said:

Are they called Indians again? Weird.

I think most regular folks nowadays do refer to "native Americans" but according to the U.S. Census Bureau they are "American Indians/Alaska Natives."

I wonder what they prefer.

[fussbucket]

Oct 15, 2012 15:34:35 GMT -5 wrathofkuus said:

Oct 15, 2012 15:33:22 GMT -5 fussbucket said:

I think most regular folks nowadays do refer to "native Americans" but according to the U.S. Census Bureau they are "American Indians/Alaska Natives."

I wonder what they prefer.

Probably to not be lumped into a single homogeneous group is my guess.

[housegeek]

I think poor parenting is a plague amongst the human race, not culture specific.

[wrathofkuus]

Oct 15, 2012 15:35:50 GMT -5 fussbucket said:

Oct 15, 2012 15:34:35 GMT -5 wrathofkuus said:

I wonder what they prefer.

Probably to not be lumped into a single homogeneous group is my guess.

Eh. It's like the difference between "Asians" and "Chinese" as far as specificity goes, no?

I'm wondering, if no one anywhere else has seen this phenomenon of Indian children in restaurants, if this is something peculiar to the Pittsburgh Indian community.

[Muddled]

It's not an Indian thing, it's a spoiled children thing.

[motzie]

We've been frequenting an Indian place about once a week for a while now and I have not noticed this.

[imoan]

The biggest asshole, misbehaving kids I've ever seen are ALWAYS Whitey McWhitersons. So... no.

[gbck]

Oct 15, 2012 16:04:00 GMT -5 imoan said:

The biggest asshole, misbehaving kids I've ever seen are ALWAYS Whitey McWhitersons. So... no.

Same.
And, when it comes to college age, the people who make it onto my 'difficult, have to keep an eye on this twit because he/she intentionally flaunts rules and put his/her name on the running list of people's names on a hidden post-it to watch ' are 95% entitled white kids, EVERY semester.

Which, given the racial make-up of where I work says that the minority students are all around less stab-inducing.

[kmw325i]

I find asshole parents in all colors around here. But they're in different locations. In restaurants, it's usually white kids and Hispanic kids running around like demon spawn. The black kids are pretty much always in their seats at tables, even if they're being loud, but seem to always be running amok in Walmart, darting out in front of peoples carts and shit...but so are the white and Hispanic kids. I rarely see Indian kids out with their parents at all.

[mortomo]

I don't think this is a cultural thing...it's a poor parenting thing that I see everywhere, and it's not just Indian children.

[imoan]

Oct 15, 2012 16:32:48 GMT -5 mortomo said:

I don't think this is a cultural thing...it's a poor parenting thing that I see everywhere, and it's not just Indian children.

Yuuuup. Shitty parenting knows no color.

[malibu]

Oct 15, 2012 17:14:09 GMT -5 imoan said:

Oct 15, 2012 16:32:48 GMT -5 mortomo said:

I don't think this is a cultural thing...it's a poor parenting thing that I see everywhere, and it's not just Indian children.

Yuuuup. Shitty parenting knows no color.

Agreed.