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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 13 2014, @09:13PM
by Anonymous Coward
on Sunday April 13 2014, @09:13PM (#30976)
Everyone's racist to some degree if they're honest about themselves.
The only one we call out bigtime tho is white people vs. any other race.
Heck we'll even include other races into the whites if it serves our purpose of being able to scream racisim. We like that argument. George zimmerman was from peru.. He got included as 'white' for the purposes of turning that trial into a race issue.
Personally I don't have a problem with some mexicans at all. A couple other races (and nationalities) i do have a major problem with tho. <shrug>
I'll probably get called "racist" for this, but it seems to me that some cultures fit together much better than other cultures, and some cultures just don't get along very well at all. I think a lot of cases where people are crying "racism!" are really cases where there's a culture clash, and people in one culture simply don't like the values and ways of people in another culture. The reason they're complaining is because, for some reason, they're in a situation where the two cultures are being forced together, and it isn't working out well.
For an example, let's look at history. Back in the days of the "New World", European explorers and settlers came to the Americas. We've all heard about the horrors that Europeans inflicted on the Native Americans. This is obviously a case of clashing cultures: the Natives had a culture where land was not owned, the people were frequently nomadic, etc. Europeans came over, with this concept of land ownership, started claiming everything for themselves, building towns and cities, etc. When conflict arose, the Europeans with their superior weapons generally won out. And conflict did arise, frequently, with an absolutely huge flood of new immigrants from Europe coming to the Americas and pushing out the Natives, who used land in an entirely different way. So, were the Natives "racist" for not liking the white people? They had very good reasons for disliking them. Fast-forward to today, and the Natives are completely marginalized, their numbers devastated, and their culture mostly destroyed. Unchecked, uncontrolled immigration did not go very well for them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 13 2014, @09:13PM
The only one we call out bigtime tho is white people vs. any other race.
Heck we'll even include other races into the whites if it serves our purpose of being able to scream racisim. We like that argument.
George zimmerman was from peru.. He got included as 'white' for the purposes of turning that trial into a race issue.
Personally I don't have a problem with some mexicans at all. A couple other races (and nationalities) i do have a major problem with tho.
<shrug>
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday April 14 2014, @01:27PM
I'll probably get called "racist" for this, but it seems to me that some cultures fit together much better than other cultures, and some cultures just don't get along very well at all. I think a lot of cases where people are crying "racism!" are really cases where there's a culture clash, and people in one culture simply don't like the values and ways of people in another culture. The reason they're complaining is because, for some reason, they're in a situation where the two cultures are being forced together, and it isn't working out well.
For an example, let's look at history. Back in the days of the "New World", European explorers and settlers came to the Americas. We've all heard about the horrors that Europeans inflicted on the Native Americans. This is obviously a case of clashing cultures: the Natives had a culture where land was not owned, the people were frequently nomadic, etc. Europeans came over, with this concept of land ownership, started claiming everything for themselves, building towns and cities, etc. When conflict arose, the Europeans with their superior weapons generally won out. And conflict did arise, frequently, with an absolutely huge flood of new immigrants from Europe coming to the Americas and pushing out the Natives, who used land in an entirely different way. So, were the Natives "racist" for not liking the white people? They had very good reasons for disliking them. Fast-forward to today, and the Natives are completely marginalized, their numbers devastated, and their culture mostly destroyed. Unchecked, uncontrolled immigration did not go very well for them.