Comments on: They Aren’t All Alike Just Because They’re From Asia http://defensive-indifference.com/2008/04/21/they-arent-all-alike-just-because-theyre-from-asia/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:12:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Andrew Johnson http://defensive-indifference.com/2008/04/21/they-arent-all-alike-just-because-theyre-from-asia/#comment-469 Andrew Johnson Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:21:26 +0000 http://defensive-indifference.com/2008/04/21/they-arent-all-alike-just-because-theyre-from-asia/#comment-469 Yea, I mean the stereotyping is ridiculous, but I think the laziness actually bothers me more. Dey urm look kinda dur same. Thank god for <a href="http://www.baseballprospectus.com/glossary/index.php?mode=viewstat&stat=155" rel="nofollow">similarity scores.</a> Yea, I mean the stereotyping is ridiculous, but I think the laziness actually bothers me more. Dey urm look kinda dur same.

Thank god for similarity scores.

]]> By: Yigael Yadin http://defensive-indifference.com/2008/04/21/they-arent-all-alike-just-because-theyre-from-asia/#comment-468 Yigael Yadin Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:06:59 +0000 http://defensive-indifference.com/2008/04/21/they-arent-all-alike-just-because-theyre-from-asia/#comment-468 As other people have noted, this whole racial profiling phenomenon applies to pretty much every race: white people are compared to other white people, blacks to blacks, latinos to latinos. This example is especially egregious because there are so few asians in baseball, so that a) it's totally unlikely that they are actually comparable, and b) it's just really lazy because Ichiro and H. Matsui are the only other good Japanese hitters (apologies to Kaz Matsui and So Taguchi). As other people have noted, this whole racial profiling phenomenon applies to pretty much every race: white people are compared to other white people, blacks to blacks, latinos to latinos. This example is especially egregious because there are so few asians in baseball, so that a) it’s totally unlikely that they are actually comparable, and b) it’s just really lazy because Ichiro and H. Matsui are the only other good Japanese hitters (apologies to Kaz Matsui and So Taguchi).

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