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Old 01-03-2013, 10:54 PM   #12
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From my experiences on both coasts (and various places in between) is that expressions of racism are extremely regional but the underlying racism is pretty uniform. Plenty of people back in Virginia thought that Natives were essentially less hairy Mexicans (a lot of Virginians also think all Hispanics are Mexican) and there are plenty of people here in Cali that fetishize native cultures. Also hipster kids everywhere really love all things Navajo, whether or not those things have anything to do with the Navajo people (who have a copyright on that name and as such anything that isn't produced by them is not legally allowed to use the term Navajo in any way but major retailers keep doing it because hey that shit sells and the Navajo don't have the ability to really do much of anything about it).
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