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originally posted by: Bennyzilla
a reply to: reldra
I think the US is way ahead of most of the world in terms of race relations. Unfortunately we do have groups of people who are legitimate racists and another group of people on the opposite end who are constantly making every issue about race.
It's the outliers on both sides who are the problem children.
I think the US is way ahead of most of the world in terms of race relations. Unfortunately we do have groups of people who are legitimate racists and another group of people on the opposite end who are constantly making every issue about race.
originally posted by: LesMisanthrope
a reply to: Bennyzilla
I think the US is way ahead of most of the world in terms of race relations. Unfortunately we do have groups of people who are legitimate racists and another group of people on the opposite end who are constantly making every issue about race.
Both are racist for the very same reason. At this point, a racist is simply someone who believes the human species can be subdivided into race.
originally posted by: TonyS
a reply to: onequestion
Africa itself is a real oddity to me because we in the US seem to think of colors in terms of race, white, black, brown. But in my African travels, it sure seemed to me that while native Africans tend to be "black"...many different shades of black, (yes there are white Africans), there seemed to be some really distinctive differences, i.e., genetic or perhaps "racial" differences between blacks in Africa.
And all of that leads me to the question..........what is "Race"? Guess I'll have to find an Anthropologist.
Any Anthropologists out there?
Absolutely not. Racism is the belief that another race, religion, color, sexual orientation, gender is inferior to yourself. And in some extreme cases, that they have no right to exist at all.
originally posted by: odzeandennz
no worries, blacks are hated everywhere. were not alone
originally posted by: onequestion
So I've been sitting here wondering about how the rest of the world deals with racism in their country.
So for instance... Is it just westernized white countries who are constantly dealing with racism, is it just us being called racist all the time or is this going on in let's say... Japan?
Do people illegally immigrants to Japan and when they get deport or jailed by the Japanese government are the Japanese people considered racist? Would the Japanese people even care if they got called racist?
That's just one of many examples. I really am curious to get some insight into other countries and cultures.
I'm ignorant of other countries because I haven't traveled yet outside of the US and I mainly only get news from the Western perspective.
Thanks.