Speak up for autism on Nov. 1st

[Mark6]

I don't know whether you are being facecious, or you are genuinely unaware of this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_Asians_from_Uganda

Both. I never heard of it before, but when I saw jiggeryqua's post I immediately figured out what she meant. But could not resist making a joke.

More seriously:

When Ugandan asian immigrants arrived in Britain (fleeing Idi Amin's regime), they were at first considered to be very rude people. Perhaps in some places they still are, but social discourse spread the awareness of conflicting expectations of what is 'polite'.

Don't know about Britain, but I think Americans are more forgiving of social gaffes by immigrants -- as long as the immigrant is clearly trying to learn, -- than of social gaffes due to "being different". I was lucky in having emigrated at the age of 14 -- many of my blunders people chalked up to me being from another culture. Little did they know that in Russia I would have fared far worse.

 

[jiggeryqua]

Don't know about Britain, but I think Americans are more forgiving of social gaffes by immigrants -- as long as the immigrant is clearly trying to learn, -- than of social gaffes due to "being different". I was lucky in having emigrated at the age of 14 -- many of my blunders people chalked up to me being from another culture. Little did they know that in Russia I would have fared far worse.

I grew up as an immigrant, and rationalised a lot of my differences as merely cultural. Then I moved back to my 'home' country. That was a sharp lesson...it was me after all...

Both. I never heard of it before, but when I saw jiggeryqua's post I immediately figured out what she meant. But could not resist making a joke.

Not the first time I've been taken for a woman online, and though some women still attempt to demean men by ascribing feminine traits to them, I take no offence

 

[dirtywick]

Not the first time I've been taken for a woman online, and though some women still attempt to demean men by ascribing feminine traits to them, I take no offence

Because your handle ends in the letter "a".

 

[jiggeryqua]

Because your handle ends in the letter "a".

Well it used to happen when I was 'jiggerypokery' too. I wonder if Ezra Pound had the same problem? It may be why Josh Groban doesn't go by 'Joshua'.

ETA: Oooh, ooh, also: Jabba the Hut. Definitely male.