You sir, are 'true blue'.
Thank you. Nice compliment
"Racism is generally defined as actions, practices, or beliefs that consider the human species to be divided into races with shared traits, abilities, or qualities, such as personality, intellect, morality, or other cultural behavioral characteristics, and especially the belief that races can be ranked as inherently superior or inferior to others, or that members of different races should be treated differently."
By your definition it is racism. The other regions get recognised as such where as the Asian and Pacific regions are not being recognised as such. " members of different races should be treated differently." Basically treating people outside the Asia and Pacific regions different to those within those 2 regions.
That hasn't been my experience. I have Australian friends who say "Oz" when referring to their homeland.
They are saying Aus, not Oz. Sounds similar I will admit. But in writing it's very different.
Choice 3: Get the best tablet that suits your use case. Sometimes that tablet is an iPad. Sometimes it's not. It was for me, but that doesn't mean someone not choosing an iPad is uninformed or cheap.
You make a good point there. Different people value different things differently. So by your definition people simply don't see the iPad as good value for money. That's a fair comment.
The Asia-Pacific region is a REAL region. I don't understand why you think referring to the region so is a problem. If I wanted to talk about that region, what do you expect me to refer to it as the "Japan, China, Indonesia, Guam, et etc region?" No. Just like in the US where people on the East Coast will say "oh you're a West Coaster" or vice versa. It's not racism in any way. It's called regional identification.
We have the east coast and west coast too. Brisbane/Sydney/Melbourne on the East and Perth on the West.
But what I am saying is very different. It would be if we you chatted to a Mexican person and called him American. Technically that is correct, but he's prefer to be called Mexican. But for us it's doubly so as it's two separate continents.
regional identification?
If people say hey you're from Asia-Pacific, I will reply, **** no, I'm Australian, that's in the Pacific Region. I am not Asian. And I am have every right to say this. I'm proud of who I am and where I come from. Just the same as everyone here is proud of where they come from. I don't want to be told I come from a place I do not.
"what do you expect me to refer to it as the "Japan, China, Indonesia, Guam, et etc region?"
No just call it what it is. The Asia or Asian region. The Pacific region. Not very hard.
I know a lot of people just say Australia, but that is forgetting NZ and all the other little islands that make up our region. They are small but like every other country out there they are important too.
Oh give me a b.r.e.a.k. Are you that sensitive that even common sense and recognized regions make you cry. Look, the U.S. is linked with Canada and Mexico regionally; it's called North America. Likewise the Asian-Pacific Rim is a real thing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia-Pacific_Economic_Cooperation
What you say happens. Does not make it right. I made my point and it's your choice how you react to it. You have 3 main countries in your continent, I get it. For us it's two different continents being incorrectly shoved together. Australia/NZ/fiji/etc etc is very different from China/Japan/Korea/etc etc. Not my fault if people in the world do not understand this.
