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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Myrdin Potter" data-source="post: 8031498" data-attributes="member: 6843593">This has been one of my main points here. The need to parse what the issue is and with who while still listening because the feelings being expressed are the honest opinions of the people expressing them.I hear "Asians" and wonder "which ones?". There are Asians in Asia and outside of Asia. There are a bunch of countries and cultures there and many don't like each other. Inside some countries, there are plenty that don't like each other. People in a majority feel and act different than people in a minority. Some Asians have been in the USA and other places for generations. Some held onto their family traditions, others did not.Does my experience and circumstance count or get ignored? I lived in Singapore and China for a total of 8 years. I often worked in Japan. I gamed there. That enough? Married to a Chinese woman from Nanjing (where Japanese are really unpopular). Have a 1/2 Chinese son. That enough, am I enough Asian that I can advocate and argue?I even have to overcome my own personal knee jerk reactions. I am originally from Montreal and now some Toronto people are lecturing me from some moral high ground? Even though my family is English speaking, I identify as a Quebecois and a Canadian. But to some where I am from, I will never truly belong because of my native language. Is that how Asian Americans feel when someone asks them where they are from and they don't mean what state or city? If I am sensitive to Toronto, maybe that is the same as Oriental bothering others?Should I care about what Zeb Cook thinks? He is active and on the internet, he has to see some of the accusations that his book is racist.I crunched all that and my conclusion is that a book made today should be different. And maybe is not needed at all as you can Asian theme any of the existing classes. But I don't think the existing book should be pulled from sale.At least we are talking it out here.</blockquote>

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