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: 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.