u/EquivalentFeed9009

I'm a white guy that has lived and worked in immigrant communities throughout Queens for a very, very long time. For a long time, I taught English to adult immigrants. Due to me being white, I have noticed other people are very comfortable saying their racist thoughts to me and assume I will agree (for obvious reasons).

The most racist things I have ever heard in my entire life have been in an English classroom in Flushing.

To give one stark example, I was running a conversation class with students who had a higher level of English. The class was almost entirely Chinese with a few Koreans and Latinos. I started class asking people what they liked best and least about New York after moving to America. When we got to what they liked least, a guy raised his hand and said "black people."

The entire class nodded their head and gave various verbal expressions noting their agreement. Young and old alike. Then another girl joined in to talk about how black people are "less evolved" which explained why they are "savages."

I was surprised by the denial of stuff like this I found in the other thread, because I have also known lots of Asian people in Flushing who acknowledge this stuff and oppose it strongly.

Anyone who has looked briefly at any history book knows Chinese, Korean, and East Asian society in general is extremely ethnocentric. The world having a natural racial hierarchy, in which their ethnicity sits at the top, is as much a "fact" as the sky being blue. The colorism and everything else is not an import from western colonialism and imperialism, but something very indigenous (which the colonists and imperialists then happily exploited for their own reasons). And this view was very apparent in all the talk of "jealousy"

I have also worked as the only white guy in a place in Brooklyn with a lot of black people for 3 years. And I heard them say crazy things about how Asians eat dogs, need to "go back", and all sorts of things.

And it is interesting, because there is an elite, the Epstein class, that love the fact normal people are divided like this against each other. They are the ones who make our lives miserable, and they are predominantly white.

Edit: Some of the shit I have read in these comments are WILD. Like half the comments are people either saying "yes, I am very racist and Asians are superior" or "yeah the racism isn't good BUT" and I will look at this in an hour and maybe delete this. Not sure what the point is in keeping this up

Edit 2: Nevermind, I just found out deleting it will still keep the comments (I am not a regular on reddit).

I moved to Flushing from Elmhurst about 4 or 5 years ago. Since living in Flushing, I have definitely seen some absolutely astounding decisions made by drivers, but I never really thought driving was substantially worse than what you might find in other parts of Queens.

But in the last few months, things have been weirder to say the least. I've almost been hit more times crossing the street when I have the right of way while walking than maybe my entire life combined. I had someone almost run me over trying to speed through a red light and then roll down his window to scream at me for being in his way.

It's very possible this has just been a weird couple of months and it's just me, but is that true or is something going on that's causing this difference I'm noticing? Something others have noticed?

I have been teaching high school since 2022, seniors and 10th grade. I have been shocked by the illiteracy, lack of attention span, lack of endurance, lack of resilience, and other such things I have seen from these kids. They just get passed along, no matter what they do, and face no real consequences. For some (maybe needed) context, I teach at a title 1 school.

I have watched seniors who read and write at a 2nd grade level, never meet deadlines, etc etc get accepted into colleges.

My question is, for these kids, what happens to them after their last day of high school? Do any of them get their shit together finally (if they aren't suffering from massive literacy needs)? What happens to the kids who can barely read and write? What happens to the kids who can't focus and think? Do they just expect they can submit assignments late with no consequences? Do they still expect (or still get) a 45% on assignments for doing nothing at all?

Have university standards been lowered by this, or are the standards still kept high? (This is my main curiosity)