Archive for January, 2008

The Race Game :: Expansion Pack.

Published by
iMorph
at January 20, 2008 in Reflect and humor?. 1 Comment

Additional Cards: Minority

  • Jungle Fever Card: Get Your Interracial Love On.

    Excludes bearer(s) from physical, emotional, verbal, and financial attacks/abuse.

    Bearers include offspring of a Jungle-Fever relationship.

  • The Jeffersons/Buppie/Uncle Tom Card: Movin’ on Up.

    Excludes bearer(s) from interference when moving out of a depressed minority neighborhood and into a “White” neighborhood.

    This card can be played against either your own people trying to hold you down or Da Man.

  • White-Guilt.

    This card allows bearer(s) to halt insulting praise, “She is very articulate”, special treatment, and handouts from non-minorities.

  • Token Minority.

    Bearer(s) do not count as a Cultural-diversity point for non-minorities.

NEW! White Devil Cards!

You can play too! Check out these new cards!

  • Hard-Luck Story: Hey, just because I am not a person-of-color doesn’t mean I am privileged!

    This card allows the bearer(s) to counter the standard Race Card™

    You no longer need to feel guilty just because of the color of your skin.

  • Keepin’ It Real.

    Bearer(s) can invoke this card when a minority displays “ghetto” behavior.

    This card cannot be used to negate the Jeffersons/Buppie/Uncle Tom card.

A Sad Conversation.

Published by
iMorph
at January 1, 2008 in Japan and Reflect. 2 Comments

Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)

What is the American dream? Dictionary.app says it is:

The American dream is the traditional social ideals of the U.S., such as equality, democracy, and material prosperity.

Yeah? So, the next question is, what is the Japanese dream?

The Public Has Spoken. Sort of.

  • ME: What is the Japanese dream?
  • HER (Nao): Japanese dream? There isn’t one!
  • ME: There isn’t?
  • HER: We don’t have a dream….
  • ME: Come on, there has to be something.
  • HER: Well….ummmm. Oh! Stability! We want stability! We don’t like change.
  • NARRATOR: Nao confers with her brother and his wife.
  • HER: Yeah, stability. For most men they want to work for the same company until retirement which is what wives expect from their husbands.
  • ME: That’s it? Don’t you want anything? [The ugly American displaying his inability to grok that the Japanese are not slaves to consumerism like oil-hungry SUV-driving Americans.] /me suppresses a bout of laughter.
  • HER: A HOUSE! We want to own our own homes!
  • NARRATOR: Brother and sister-in-law nod vigorously in agreement.
  • ME: That’s it?
  • HER: Yeah. We are totally afraid of change and don’t take chances. Not like Americans. You guys always have dreams and try to do things. [Dejected.] We don’t have dreams. Nothing, yo.

NOTE: Wife said the exact same thing, but I didn’t believe her. Sorry, honey.