is rice racist?

[fogeesiksteythree]

all these people goin around callin the posers with imports a ricer kinda pisses me off. Its obviously racist. i hear some people sayin that its about the cars and not the drivers but if you really think about it, its still making fun of asians. I dont really think its fair since us asians are gettin the worst of it. i mean do people go around calling a wannabe in a muscle car a cracker car? no, because its not right, but people do the exact same thing with imports and calling it a ricer.

[Bryan8412]

Originally posted by fogeesiksteythree
Its obviously racist. i hear some people sayin that its about the cars and not the drivers but if you really think about it, its still making fun of asians.

you know, i really thought about it, and you're right! everytime someone calls a car rice, it's not referring to the car, nor the driver, its referring to asians. asians everywhere. sorry but you've looked too far into this one.

a ricer has clearly been established as being a car whose visual appearence of speed excells the actually capability of the car, hence the large wings, oversized pipes, excess of stickers and body mods, etc. Sure they arrived first on the import scene but rice has carried into domestics and many many americans now drive what is classified as "rice."

Maybe in the beggining it was racial, but "rice" has crossed into so many territories of the automotive world that it can hardly be called racist. Besides, even in the begining, if you attack the phrase "rice" being associated with asian racism, it goes much deeper than cars and quite frankley noone cares.

This has been done to death, please refrain from littering the forum further of unnessicary and pointless posts. If you take personal offense, noones forcing you to stay.

[blackbob]

When you think about it ? The way you feel about people calling imports "rice burners or rice". Some other people feel the same way when it comes to people calling damestics "corn". As to say that a damestici s just some american muscle car driven by some red neck that lives in the back woods somewhere that has nothing better to do but make his stang,cuda,or camaro go fast. Now so fare as it being racist your right cause in a way when you think about it,it is! But keep in mind not everone means it that way,know what I mean:alien: ? So the best advice I can give is to just keep kool and don't pay anyattention to those fruits screaming anti-jap this ,and anti-jap that cause half of them don't even have a car :o !

[darklight]

haha! the reasont they dont have one is because they are going to spend more than 3-5k on a car!

[darklight]

also.. the americans calling you ricers are not the wannabe's, ricers are the wannabe's and its not just exactly asians or jap cars. actually the 3kgt and Supra tt are awsome jap cars,its when you get your .3 liter honda/acura and give it names like "fast" or "cool":smoka: :finger:

[LjasonL]

Originally posted by darklightvr4
when you get your .3 liter honda

HEY NOW MY HONDA HAS A .6 LITER DAMMIT :cwn27:

[MoJoRaCeR]

guys, i believe that the rice burner thing started with motorcycles, all the harley riders considered the yamahas hondas and suzukis rice burners or ricers....thus, causing ignorant people to carry this into the automobile world..just ignore it if it bothers you, or dont come into the import forum.....

[blackbob]

Mojo has a point !

[The DeViL]

Who gives a fuck. If someone gets offended by it then do something about it.

has nothing better to do but make his stang,cuda,or camaro go fast.

Yeah I guess so and my reply would be, "did you break the 20's in the quarter yet Honda boy?"

[fogeesiksteythree]

its stupid when people use tha word ricer tho, even if thats not wut they mean. its all the haterz that are the rreal wannabes. If your a real racer, you dont talk shit on other cars, you repect them cuz you never know wuts under the hood and whos driving. And even if you beat a car by 5 seconds, you dont talk shit cuz your not the best either, theres always sumone out there thats faster than u. I mean i dont like domestics, but i dont talk shit on them. I might b faster than alot of them, but i kno that i might meet up with one thats faster. Plus even if you ARE the fastest, you should still respect other racers.

[Gonthrax]

Originally posted by fogeesiksteythree
its stupid when people use tha word ricer tho, even if thats not wut they mean. its all the haterz that are the rreal wannabes. If your a real racer, you dont talk shit on other cars, you repect them cuz you never know wuts under the hood and whos driving. And even if you beat a car by 5 seconds, you dont talk shit cuz your not the best either, theres always sumone out there thats faster than u. I mean i dont like domestics, but i dont talk shit on them. I might b faster than alot of them, but i kno that i might meet up with one thats faster. Plus even if you ARE the fastest, you should still respect other racers.

When I call somthing rice, I don't care who's driving or what color they are. It could be fucking Billy Bob Thorntan, Jesse Jackson, or Jet li driving, the way in which they mod their car is telling of their mentality that is what the rice is. It's not their color, it's not their choice of cars, it's their mentality.

[Tom_S8]

Originally posted by Gonthrax


It could be fucking Billy Bob Thorntan, Jesse Jackson, or Jet li driving.

What if it was Michael Jackson ... ??? Or Osama bin Laden?

[Gonthrax]

Originally posted by Tom_S8


What if it was Michael Jackson ... ??? Or Osama bin Laden?

If it was Micheal Jackson... I think anything I said would be racist, seeing as he is Black and yet looks white... (On purpose!!!)

If it was Osama, I'd ask him if he had fun at the rave

[swedish]

haha! the reasont they dont have one is because they aren't going to spend more than 3-5k on a car!

Ok, high horse time again. First of all, if you can find me a good 'cuda for 5k, i'll shoot myself in the foot for your enjoyment. Second, maintaing/restoring/modifing these cars can be quite costly (go look through a year-one restorations catalog) so don't infer that owning a "muscle car" indicates a hillbilly, lack of wealth, dumb as a brick, beer drinkin' existence i don't really care, i just don't like to see people trying to pass along little bits of "info" like that.

By the way, i have never called a car, driver, or race "rice."

[Bryan8412]

Originally posted by fogeesiksteythree
its stupid when people use tha word ricer tho, even if thats not wut they mean. its all the haterz that are the rreal wannabes. If your a real racer, you dont talk shit on other cars, you repect them cuz you never know wuts under the hood and whos driving. And even if you beat a car by 5 seconds, you dont talk shit cuz your not the best either, theres always sumone out there thats faster than u. I mean i dont like domestics, but i dont talk shit on them. I might b faster than alot of them, but i kno that i might meet up with one thats faster. Plus even if you ARE the fastest, you should still respect other racers.

By generalizing everyone who says the word, you, sir, have made a prejudice remark. How can you say anyone who calls something a "ricer" is a hater and a wannabe? Shit gets talked regardless, and yes it comes from the experts and fastest for a reason. Consider an anology. A person who has no knowledge of martial arts whatsoever walks into a martial arts school and pretends to know what they're doing, what do you think the reaction will be from the true martial artists? Will they appreciate them and respect them because maybe they know what they're doing (ala have something under the hood you dont know about)? Hell no. It's simple. Martial artists (the majority) don't show off or abuse their talent, and true racers do not need a sticker to tell others they're fast; if they're skill is tested it will suffice as demostration of their talents. And another thing, the appearance of speed can in turn compromise speed, making such a term more appropriate when referring to such vehicles. I can tell you right now no real racer would have 22" rims and a huge wing. The rims would compromise handleing, and the large wing would diminish the aerodynamics of the car. So lacking knowledge of what's under the hood, it's easy to distinguish real racers. And unfortunatly, movies like Fast and the Furious spread this ignorance, and some who may have real racing talent may possess such assets on their cars, and they will live and learn, just like the other facets of life. I am by no means bashing imports, i enjoy their look and nostalgic, and many can be done very tastefully and preform well. But regardless, the term ricer as it is used in context today, refers to cars which possess outlandish and unnessicary body modifications that fail to contribute or in turn diminish the preformance of the car. The term knows no race, company, or country. A ford can be just as much rice as a civic could be. Many terms start out racist but lose their roots as the term crosses boundries as i think we have here...