Michael Cash wrote:

> On 1 Sep 2003 01:21:51 -0700, geoffthatcher@my-deja.com (Geoff
> Thatcher) belched the alphabet and kept on going with:
>
> >Michael Cash <mikecash@sunfield.ne.jp> wrote in message news:<i7c2lvs78eq2itl8fr9qh1s12orjajdtej@4ax.com>...
> >> A woman with three huge boobs visited Japan. One of them wrote an
> >> account of the trip:
> >>
> >> http://www.nsli.com/.../japan/
> >>
> >> I am proud of myself for having made it through two whole pages.
> >
> >This guy's a real class act.
> >
> >"In the U.S., even though we live in an extremely affluent
> >neighborhood, I find it disturbing that so many uneducated,
> >dumpy-looking goyim are always underfoot."
> >
> >http://www.nsli.com/.../israel/index4.htm#thoughts
>
> You are too kind. One really needs the whole paragraph that appears
> in, especially the last sentence:
>
> "As a Jew, I did feel special in this land. It felt unusual to know
> with certitude that the vast majority of the people around me were
> Jewish. Yet, in the U.S., Jews typically occupy the uppermost roles in
> society: doctors, attorneys, professors, judges. In Israel, the trash
> collector and the street sweeper are also Jews. Interestingly, I
> wasn?ft as acutely aware of class differences in Israel as I am in the
> U.S.. In the U.S., even though we live in an extremely affluent
> neighborhood, I find it disturbing that so many uneducated,
> dumpy-looking goyim are always underfoot. In Israel, I generally felt
> much more comfortable among the crowds even though the people were
> quite pushy. I wonder if this has something to do with the civil
> rights movement in the U.S.. Here, everybody is mixed together?at
> times quite artificially?and the government tries desperately to
> ensure political correctness, even though racial and ethnic tensions
> are high. In Israel, the lower classes (for the most part) speak a
> different language, follow a different religion, are segregated into
> their own enclaves, and keep their place when they mix with their
> superiors."
>
> Racist? Probably.
>
> Elitist? Beyond the shadow of a doubt.
>
> You know, growing up as I did in rural Tennessee, I didn't know any
> Jews.

When I entered high school, I met a white guy who was also the first and only Jew I knew.

A Jew who did kung fu.

Seriously.

> There just weren't any.

I never met a full blooded black person until university. And they were all athletes. Haven't met any in years.
I met my first and last Latino in Japan.

> Consequently, I had no feelings about
> them one way or the other. But I have to say, if I had met *this* guy
> and been the type to broadly stereotype people, the question of why
> the Jews have been persecuted and reviled by so many people throughout
> their history would have stood neatly answered for me. What a fukkin'
> prick this guy is!