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Originally Posted by Visirale
I miss the days…before kids threw hissy fits on the internet over T0t4lly r4ci57 articles. </p>
<p>Replied by warblersrule86:
You weren’t around then, but the old CC had people who knew the line between amusing and racism, and that line was rarely crossed. One of the most hysterical threads from the old forum was on Asian parents and their parenting methods. </p>
<p>I WAS around on the old CC, and I DO remember there were plenty of flame/ racist wars on CC, even then. Nostalgia tends to make the past look so much more desirable than it really is. </p>
<p>As a Chinese Malaysian (therefore not having the minority-complex that I notice a good percentage of Asian Americans seem to have… and I’m speaking from experience here!), I don’t think that the responsibility is so much with the Daily Princetonian, or with the atmosphere in Princeton, or with the students there. It’s with the whole immigrant-poor-Asian-folks-from-Asia situation - only when there’s a large number of wealthy Asian communities, then these jokes will stop. With wealth comes social mobility and respect (One only needs to look at Chinese Malaysians as an example). After all, most of these jokes come from WASPs who think they are somehow more cooler/ more elite than other races.</p>