Some can talk about whites, but that Chinese “Disgrace to Asians” attitude is very similar to what the majority of whites ‘used’ to think about blacks years ago. And the comment about whites being racist towards Mexicans. Try listening to what Mexicans say behind closed doors sometimes. They pretty much only stay within their own race and confine as much of their dealings to each other as they can. Remember, Mexico doesn’t have as many different kinds of races living within it’s borders either. So they’re more ‘comfortable’ being with their own as well.

America on the other hand has been a melting pot of races for a long time unlike places such as China, Mexico or Japan or wherever where the populations have largely been monolithic. So, America has had to learn to be more open about race out of neccessity. They know a little about living and working with many other races together. That’s not to say that racism isn’t still alive in America but considering all the different races packed into schools and neighborhoods together these days, they’re doing OK IMO.

Today there are more kinds of races living in United States borders than ever before. Blacks, hispanics, whites, Asians, middle easterners, Indians, and even among all those you have differing cultures inside. American blacks, African blacks, American born Asian kids meeting Asians fresh arrived from Asia. All that makes for a pretty heavily diverse group. Unlike what alot of other countries have. And they’ve learned to adapt to it fairly well considering.

Here’s a tidbit of information. In the election McCain took a majority of his votes from whites, and almost all blacks voted for Obama. But they weren’t as many total black voters as whites. Yet Obama won, so what does that mean? It means that a large number of whites also voted for Obama as well.

America has been working towards this historic event for a long time. So I commend them on it. And I commend the American people for electing a guy that seems to be intellegent enough and hopefully honest enough to get the country back on it’s feet and start establishing itself on good terms in the emerging global economy and world relationships.

um, well every country has its share of prejudice but I don’t think asians are usually targeted as much as blacks have been targeted in america. actually, right now i think mexicans are the group that are most discriminated upon, at least near where i live, (not that they’re being hunted down, but they’re just the butt of jokes and stereotyping) because of immigration and illegalness etc..

by the way, his cartoon face on the tees in the video looks funny =)

I am not really surprised to see a black president for US. There were plenty of signs that most US folks are liberal with skin colour… and the election has just prove the open mindedness of the people. It’s still a milestone nonetheless.

Would be interesting to see how Obama performs as president; but I actually think that he is lucky to be elected during an economic slump… the situation probably won’t get much worse than it is now with or without Obama.

There is already a statue (albeit an amateurishly made statue) in a shopping mall, but the mayor probably has nothing to do with it.

My apology for the mis-information.

agree with cole that no one would know how good a president he’d be. imagine he does something bad in the future…would the japanese city obama’s tourism decline? i think the japanese people are overreacting. if the statue rumour is true, it’d be really weird to see an america president’s statue in a japanese city.