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Originally Posted by Kizzy
Then in the real sense of the word that isn't racism.
'Ethnic identity is acquired, and ethnic features are learned forms of behaviour. Race, on the other hand, is a form of identity that is perceived as innate and unalterable. Ethnicity may be transient and even superficial. Race is thought to be profound and grounded in biological realities. Ethnocentrism is based in a belief in the superiority of one's own culture over others, and it too may be transient and superficial. Racism is the belief in and promotion of the racial worldview described above. Ethnocentrism holds skin colour and other physical features to be irrelevant as long as one is a member of the same culture, or becomes so. The racial worldview holds that, regardless of behaviour or cultural similarities, a member of an inferior race (who is usually perceived to be so by means of physical features) can never be accepted. Race is an invented, fictional form of identity; ethnicity is based on the reality of cultural similarities and differences and the interests that they represent. That race is a social invention can be demonstrated by an examination of the history of the idea of race as experienced in the English colonies.'
http://www.britannica.com/blackhistory/article-234663 |
racisim is not just a colour though. its like saying the welsh are all sheep shaggers or the ozzies saying the english are pommie beep beep lol
yet if you said anything similar towards other races you would be slaughted as a racist. yet its all the same thing.
skin doesn't matter , the problem with racisim is its so selective and people really do choose whats right and wrong, but only the person who screams the loudest will be right.
racisim is whatever you want it to be these days, unfortuantly. to whoever it suits best at the time.