Our racism is still going strong, my fellow brethren!
Just sent an email to a writer at both the NY Times and my college's newspaper tipping them off about a start up we're doing. I decided to go anonymous a bit and act like I'm the tipper...so I got a new email as a guy named "Albert Xue Chang" (so no one would ever guess who's involved in this start up ...yet.). 3 days no response; Later I got an email from a college newspaper writer with one sentence "umm you might want to contact another source or buy an ad space from us?"
A week later (yesterday) I changed the name to "Brian Wellson" and resent the exact same message (with a few words changed around) and bamm! I get a response back from the same chick at our college newspaper within 20 minutes with a message with exclamation marks and smiley faces thanking me she'd gladly do a write up and cite me as a source, before asking me if I wanted to meet up with her for coffee and an interview or give her more info. This morning I also got back from the same NYTimes writer asking me if I could give her more information.
Way to go, my fellow white brethren! We're definitely making progress!
shit.
You should have just used a variation of your real name, e.g. Looka T. Mycock.
I think you're reading into it too much. Hard to tell if we don't know what you wrote exactly.
Maybe if you have tried a few different names, I would be with you, but having just two attempts does not prove much. Also, I used to work at a college newspaper and you have no idea how much work/calls we used to get. Sometimes I would just flat out ignore emails because I was busy and just really didn't care, but other times I would respond to emails within ten minutes and make a dozen phone calls in an hour.....you have to take other people's schedules into account.
There was a study that sent in resumes with different names. One was very white sounding another was very black sounding. The white names got way more call backs.
There is still prejudice in this world. I also do not think your little study proves anything. No one is racist against asians dude.
Part of that has to do with not knowing how to pronounce someone's name. If you are calling on students to answer a question in class which one are you likely to pick out of convenience and out of fear of looking like a jackass...David or Shenequon? Just saying.
As far as this little psuedo science project goes, I get hundreds of emails everyday that get filtered out through a program but some get through and the majority are either asian trying to spam me to buy something or click on a link or some "soldier" or something that happens to be stationed in Africa somewhere that just "wants assist to free moneys from evil tribal, slave leader" and promises to "give me great richnesses for every afforts made". So I would have deleted that shit in a heartbeat.
Honestly there are too many variables for this to mean anything. The time you sent it, the amount of email she got that day, when she went to lunch, how sick her teacup yorkie was that day, etc. At some point you just get behind and figure if someone important hasn't called you about a missed email then it must not have been that important.
Regards
apparently so is our white liberal guilt
White people think asians are really, really smart. I would buy this phony post had the first name been DeShawn but I am not buying this.
Go to the movie theatre on a Saturday night and you'll know why racism still persists. Preferably in the south.
Yeah, I agree totally. People need to realize a name is a pretty important part of a kids life. Naming someone with an overly ethic name might have unintended consequences. Shit happens.
It is but you just gotta laugh it off. Most people of all races are more comfortable with and willing to help out people that are like them.
I love being a white strait male. Fuck everyone else for being jealous all the time.
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