To agree with a 15 year old questioning why the white race can’t control their alcohol intake

[cashmygold]

A very close friend of mine is a Humanities specialist in an inner-city multi-ethnic secondary school. This academic year she has been permitted to teach PSHE (Personal Social Heath Education).

Last night we had dinner at her place and she started to tell me about a conversation that was sparked by a 15year old girl of African origin in a lesson on Friday, which was about ?The effects of alcohol?.
Pupil: Why can?t the majority of the white race control themselves when it comes to alcohol.

Teacher: Can you try and expand on what your?re saying maybe give some examples.

Pupil: When I?ve watched programmes on telly documenting Brits abroad, booze Britain, cop shows etc, you always see white people drinking to the extreme and causing more work for the police, damage to council property (criminal damage, urinating in shop entrances, vomiting, fighting etc) , disturbing the peace and the occasional flash of their bums. Why can?t they handle their drink.

AIBU, because I feel that the girl highlighted some salient points which I somehow agree with. Growing up I always saw white teenagers drinking on street corners and I have never been asked by a kid of any other race to go into a shop and buy some alcohol for them.

Furthermore, when am out with my friends from various races, its always the my white counterparts who all of a sudden develop social shyness and need a drink before they can get on the dance floor or speak to the opposite sex....WHY!!!

Apparently the pupil went on to say that an elder in her community used a analogy of a werewolf to describe alcohol and white people. In the day they are normal law abiding citizens, then at night they switch into a uncontrollable wolf looking to cause devastation.

Now I know this isn?t true of all white people but does seem to be a typical feature.

[ILovePonyo]

What is electric soup please?

Oh, and for the OP.

[2shoes]

Xenia good post

[Nancy66]

you forgot:

French people smell
germans have no sense of humour
Swedish are sex mad
Nigerians are crooks
South africans are racist
Scots are tight
Irish are pissheads
Welsh fuck sheep
Japanese are pervs

....any others?

[WhereYouLeftIt]

ILovePonyo : "electric soup" is fairly old Scottish slang for alcohol.

[saffy85]

Aussie blokes are sexist
Dutch people all smoke pot
Flemish people are dull

erm... thats me lot

[WhereYouLeftIt]

You left out the lecherous(?sp) Italians

[saffy85]

Ahhh yes and the Italian men are hairy! So are German women! And french women don't shave their armpits!

[SoupDragon]

As someone else posted, i would have asked the girl why she thinks it is acceptable to judge an entire race like that and why she thinks it is acceptable to be racist.

[gorionine]

"And french women don't shave their armpits!"

In France this fact is believed to be about Portuguese women!

[Librashavinganotherbiscuit]

Is it racist to think that all trolls can't spell?

[BoneyBackJefferson]

cashmygold Sun 21-Nov-10 11:49:40
"Us whites are in such a priviledge position in this country"


An apologist, says it all really

[saffy85]

at BBJ.

I hope OP is a troll. Seems barmy otherwise to chat such bollocks.

[wintersnow]

Caucasian (white) is a race but, ummm, that would be like me saying the afro carribean race can't control their cannibis intake i.e. a vast & untrue generalisation. In the case your pupil is talking about it is nothing to do with race and everything to do with culture, they are very different things

[Fontsnob]

"There are typos. Then there are glaring typographical fuck-ups on a cataclysmic scale."

This is my quote of the week. I'd put it in my quote of the week book if I had one.

[JamieLeeCurtis]

Glad to know that the freckly/moley race are superior in many ways Xenia

< goes off to neck some sherry >

[scoobytoo]

Maybe if she had based her assumptions mainly on crap TV shows it would have made for a better argument

[Xenia]

And we must never get so PC we cannot talk about characteristics of particular people when a particular fact it true. If 90% of the prison population is male I should not be shot down for stating that fact for that if you're an Afro Carribbean male you're more likely to be in prison than graduate or that only 10% of the top 100 companies are female or that of that if you're female not only may you not drink in Saudi but you cannot even drive a car or go out without a male protector etc. We can't shy from stating facts.

[pastyeater]

This thread is so upsetting I'm going to go and get drunk....

[Nancy66]

This thread was the first one I logged onto at breakfast - I was so outraged I nearly choked on my Bacardi Breezer.