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It is just based on fear of the unknown. People used to be scared of witches and burned them even if witches dont even exist. But to them they did and it made sense to burn them.
And while I realise that it is mostly based on fear of the unknown I have to say that I have gone from not racist at all to somewhat intolerant and racist towards praticing muslim arabs and somalians. Oh and I also believe that alot of gambians smuggle heroin but that is more of an stereotype. I must add that I hate all christians regardless of skin color or background and the hate of muslims from certain areas are just based on that I have noticed them alot lately for obvious reasons.
EDIT:I have to say that I'm a bit suprised that I would get these opinions and I dont really know why to be honest. I guess once I meet a few fundamentalist muslims I might change my mind.
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United States22883 Posts
On February 14 2009 06:02 Eatme wrote:
EDIT:I have to say that I'm a bit suprised that I would get these opinions and I dont really know why to be honest. I guess once I meet a few fundamentalist muslims I might change my mind.
Or you might dislike them more. It's not always fear of the unknown.
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On February 14 2009 06:12 Jibba wrote:Show nested quote +On February 14 2009 06:02 Eatme wrote:
EDIT:I have to say that I'm a bit suprised that I would get these opinions and I dont really know why to be honest. I guess once I meet a few fundamentalist muslims I might change my mind. Or you might dislike them more. It's not always fear of the unknown.
Well when I think about it you got a point. I do hate christians based on my previous experiences with them.
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Nationalism is a powerful force, and it will be for quite some time.
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It depends on what you mean by racism, but I would call myself ethnocentric as people have been throughout the centuries before the "enlightenment" I simply do not want my racial group to be mixed into one new people. Diversity? that is one of the ironic slogans in the promotion of genocide. Someone mentioned witch burnings, I think the new witches are the evil racists who simply make everything worse and must be ostracized because tv and school said so.
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Because strange things/different ways can kill/harm people, and those who learned that lesson in the past made lots of babies. Albeit those ways aren't too true today. So i guess i believe it's human nature atm.
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Racism can be defined two ways...it's either the acknowledgment of cultural, phenotypic, and ethnic differences constructed into race, or both the acknowledgment AND negatively acting upon them (ie asserting oppression). The first is effectively inescapable, the second can be avoided.
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On February 14 2009 10:51 PH wrote:
Racism can be defined two ways...it's either the acknowledgment of cultural, phenotypic, and ethnic differences constructed into race, or both the acknowledgment AND negatively acting upon them (ie asserting oppression). The first is effectively inescapable, the second can be avoided.
Again, asserting oppression is just an obvious type of racism that we all know is bad. What about feelings/gestures/voice tones/etc? For example, do you feel less safe when walking in a black neighborhood?
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is awesome32277 Posts
Racism is the way in the past some people had to fuck other people. Now it does that, and works as an excuse for ignorance as well.
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Fear of people who aren't like us.
It's happened for a long time, ever since homo sapiens (we) used to slaughter neanderthals.
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I'm pretty sure racism is on the decline.
As a kid who grew up in a Southern California suburb, my best friends in elementary school were Filipino, Indian, Japanese, Chinese, and white. There were a few Mexican and black kids in my class but it's not like we thought anything differently of them. In fact, most of us understood our differences in a multicultural sense (since we learned all about that in school), but we didn't even really understand the concept of "race" as the rest of the world understood it until sometime in high school. Who knew that race was such a big deal to adults?
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Because there are different races :/ Human nature promotes it, I guess.
Also, it will continue to exist as sure as judgements against poor/ugly/fat/stupid people will. All similar things really.
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On February 14 2009 11:48 Rev0lution wrote:
Fear of people who aren't like us.
It's happened for a long time, ever since homo sapiens (we) used to slaughter neanderthals.
That's not racism, that's evolution. A more successful species wiping out an inferior one. Black people aren't another species.
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Because Blacks call Whites cracker and Whites call Blacks " nigger " sorry if I offended anyone saying either of those, but its true.
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On February 14 2009 06:53 Wotans_Fire wrote:
It depends on what you mean by racism, but I would call myself ethnocentric as people have been throughout the centuries before the "enlightenment" I simply do not want my racial group to be mixed into one new people. Diversity? that is one of the ironic slogans in the promotion of genocide. Someone mentioned witch burnings, I think the new witches are the evil racists who simply make everything worse and must be ostracized because tv and school said so.
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In most cases its because we are egocentric by nature and if we werent cowards we would shout our narcissism over our neighbours just as we do over any other foreigner and minority. But since most of us are cowards, we act like hipocrites and shield behind those closest to us.
Those who are surrounded by a minority and are still racist must have some kind of bitter past or skewed rationalization about them. But these people are very few compared to the ones i just mentioned.
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Racism is simply caused by ignorance and fear.
I am tired right now, so I will elaborate later if necessary
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Different spin on the same idea
There's evidence to support that humans can only form groups of 150 people, before it splits into two groups. What this means is that if you have a group of friends, where everyone knows each other, the max your group can reach is 150 people, before different groups start forming. The reason for the splitting of the group can be as 'obvious' as skin color (racism) or subtle, such as philosophy and political. Racism is not something 'taught' nor 'naturally born', its just a byproduct of our inability to form large groups. Unfortuntely, people of a different skin color also happen to usually have different culture, language, way of life, etc and all of that taken together forms a nice natural rift between 'us' and 'them'.
For more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar's_number
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On February 14 2009 03:55 Hawk wrote:So stupid that Canadian franchises can't win the Cup in their own sport! MORAN MORON~~
Fixed, and basking in the irony.
Racism exists because of self superiority, as far as I know. They think they are better, so others must be worse. In the process of proving they are better, they find parts of their culture that they deem weird, unnecessary, stupid, etc. to prove that they are better. Racism is riddled with hypocrisy but provides for some very entertaining jokes.
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