Hi Frank,

I agree. Violence over ANY symbol on a t-shirt is intolerable and offenders should be fully prosecuted.

I think you are taking just the right approach to raising your child - making him proud of his roots and at the same time familiarizing him with the little stuff he is likely to hear.

China, has a long and proud heritage, as one of the planet's oldest and most refined cultures and a history that only in the last fifty years, under communist rule went off-kilter.

As Tom pointed out - there is generally an underlying jealousy of oriental success by other minorities. An asian or amer-asian is much more likely to be discriminated or the victim of racial hatred by other minorities.

I in no manner support stereotypes - or commercial exploitation of them. However, sometimes the activists do more harm to their cause than good by protesting too loudly.

Being a "half-kraut" and seeing all the bad guys with the thick German accents - might seem racist to me if I were oversensitive - but instead I find it more funny than racist and understand the way history plays out after wars.

In thirty years, we will see more Afghanis and Iraqis here in the US - their offspring will live with the legacy of war in many slittle references with Saddamesque bad guys and other perhaps racially insensitive characterizations that were based on past historic figures.

To get upset about each occurence would leave one with nothing to do in life but boycott and protest one company or another.

The best way to go about life is to learn from history and about the past to understand - and to make sure one holds ones own moral and sensitivity zone to the best of one's ability.

Take care Frank,

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