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Stephen E Philion philion at hawaii.edu
Sun Sep 16 21:29:41 PDT 2001


CG wrote to Leo: Ã PS: What makes you think I'm Caucasian? Doing some of your own racial profiling, are you?

---I always get a kick out of people in the moment of some rage forgetting about the breakdown and/or uncertainty of all kinds of phenomena through utilization of the internet, including identity/geographical location/age/gender/sexuality/race/ethnicity...Half the time I write, for example, others just assume I must be in Hawaii, since, hey, the snail mail address *and* email address both have Hawaii in them. CG you've hit on it, there's no way you can tell a whole lot of things about a person via the internet. But people still delight in going ahead and assuming everything under the sun about people (like Carrol Cox has to be a woman!...).

Steve

Stephen Philion Lecturer/PhD Candidate Department of Sociology 2424 Maile Way Social Sciences Bldg. # 247 Honolulu, HI 96822



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