A Racist Country?

[Erk02]

Yes, America is a racist country.

 

 

Thats a pretty big generalisation of the most diverse country in the world.

Tell me where you can get a gay marriage in the USA?

 

Massachusetts.

1 Whole place in all of your 50(? idk xD) states

Oh man, you are stupid.

 

California (kinda, look it up)

A good amount of New England (about five of these states)

Myriad states allow civil unions with the same rights as a marriage.

[Alg]

Yes, America is a racist country.

 

 

Thats a pretty big generalisation of the most diverse country in the world.

Tell me where you can get a gay marriage in the USA?

I was unaware that a sexuality was a race.

[warri0r45]

2) Is Australia a racist country? Why/why not?

You guys took away a whole generation of aborigonal children to give them proper english education, YES.

 

I'm talking about more recently. I'm sure if you look into the history of plently of countries you could find some sort of racist policy or attitudes. We've all moved on since then and recognised that taking aboriginal kids from their families was wrong (our PM even gave an official apology recently).

[stan18]

I want to take this opportunity to define for most people the most common way of looking at racism (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/racism)

 

1. a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule others.

2. a policy, system of government, etc., based upon or fostering such a doctrine; discrimination.

 

Or, in short, an institutionalized system of advantage. Being racist means that one is, in some way, keeping the status quo. I, as with others who talk about racism, like this definition because it is a practical and flexible way to look at things that people debate over. The disadvantage of this definition is it really is all-encompassing, and thus there generally will be always one group at the top with the rest at the bottom, so discretion and common sense is needed in agreeing on what "difference" is acceptable

 

In this case, the "advantage" is safety. If australia is racist, then it, in the form of communities, or the government, or the police, isn't trying to alleviate the safety issue with indians in australia. Being racist would include not acknowledging it is a racial issue when data suggests it is, and not doing anything about this issue. It could also be the communities fault, not for participating in the racially motivated attacks, but by not doing anything (which defines passive racism) to help. Or it could simply be individual racism, where racist individuals happen to decide to attack indians because they hate them.

[The Dark Lord]

I'm going to play the Devil's Advocate.

 

If racism is defined as a belief in superiority of a race over an other, would it be a racist thing to say that evolution has brought about genetic differences among different people groups? For example, these differences may enable one group to survive more easily in colder climates, whereas the other group is better suited for hot, equatorial zones. The group that can fare better in the cold is obviously in possession of a trait that makes them superior in their own environment.

 

If it's not racist, where do we draw the line? Intellectual superiority?

 

Also, if a scientific study found out that a certain race is more intelligent than another, how should we react? Should we suppress the knowledge, even if it's the truth? Do we embrace it?

[Pirate_Felix]

Yes, America is a racist country.

 

 

Thats a pretty big generalisation of the most diverse country in the world.

Tell me where you can get a gay marriage in the USA?

 

Massachusetts.

1 Whole place in all of your 50(? idk xD) states

Oh man, you are stupid.

 

California (kinda, look it up)

A good amount of New England (about five of these states)

Myriad states allow civil unions with the same rights as a marriage.

Dont act proud, it should be able in the whole country

[Lenin64]

I'm going to play the Devil's Advocate.

 

If racism is defined as a belief in superiority of a race over an other, would it be a racist thing to say that evolution has brought about genetic differences among different people groups? For example, these differences may enable one group to survive more easily in colder climates, whereas the other group is better suited for hot, equatorial zones. The group that can fare better in the cold is obviously in possession of a trait that makes them superior in their own environment.

Like sickle cell anemia? I'm fairly certain that's a black-only genetic disease and it acts like a malaria immunization. Or inhibitor. White folk don't need that.

[Alg]

I'm going to play the Devil's Advocate.

 

If racism is defined as a belief in superiority of a race over an other, would it be a racist thing to say that evolution has brought about genetic differences among different people groups? For example, these differences may enable one group to survive more easily in colder climates, whereas the other group is better suited for hot, equatorial zones. The group that can fare better in the cold is obviously in possession of a trait that makes them superior in their own environment.

Like sickle cell anemia? I'm fairly certain that's a black-only genetic disease and it acts like a malaria immunization. Or inhibitor. White folk don't need that.

It's also in people from the Mediterranean because (yaay evolution) those regions apparently had high rates of malaria. The disease itself is recessive genetically, but heterozygous alleles give resistance to malaria without the harmful side effects. That would make it an example of superiority for a given environment. If malaria is a nonissue it's potentially harmful, but if it is, then being resistant to it is amazing. Hell, even darker skin makes sense as far as evolution goes because the equator happens to have a lot of sun, unlike northern regions where sun wouldn't be an issue.

Superiority is relative. :D

 

Repost it please so i can wtfpwn your statements :twss: ?

But you still seem to have confused racism with homophobia. After being caught by the censor for using a [racist term].

[Pirate_Felix]

If people are homophobic they dont need to express it in the government/law etc, they can just keep it to themselves. if they start to bring it out then its racism.

 

[racist term]=colored people, i see no problem by using the word that is filtered

[soulless]

I live in Australia WA, and they forget to point out that these Indians were attacked at NIGHT in dodgy parts of the city, it is not a case of Racism, but more of a case of the Indians being naive just like Japanese always turning up at the hospital from being mugged while walking around Perth/ North Bridge at night... I swear...

 

And India are freaking hypocrites, I mean what would happen to a white guy walking around a poor Indian street, AND WHAT IF THAT WHITE GUY WAS GAY!!! Plus the stat's say that these Indian students are safer in Australia then their own country.....

[soulless]

I see a lot of racism involved in the anti-immigration movements. Of course not everyone is racist, you can be any nationality and be a immigrant, but most of the time there is a lot of anger and hatred when it comes to such issues and I think a lot of people say things they don't really mean when they are at a boiling point, and it's easy to confuse anti-immigration viewpoints with racism, but a lot of the time these movements get subconsciously racist in part. People start to hate the immigrants themselves, and who they are and where they came from, rather than the systems set up allowing them to come and settle.

 

 

I can understand it in some situations, like Sweden. The Swedes are the native people there, and its kind of messed up when your jobs are being displaced from people of other countries. But there is no need to put hate towards the immigrants, they are coming from situations that most of us can never imagine and they are just doing whatever they can to get out of where they are coming from, and it's the government that keeps allowing them to come and giving them assistance.

 

In America here there is a large anti-immigration movement along the boarder in Mexico. This one I laugh at because you get white people standing down there telling Mexicans to "go home", when Mexicans are Indigenous people to those lands. America today, was founded by immigration and I don't think its fair to talk down immigration when all of your relatives were immigrants. My people, Native Americans, sadly didn't have much of a say when it came to the occupation and immigration of our lands by the Europeans and later on American settlers. I'm sure the Aboriginals of Australia went through the same thing my people did.

 

A lot of Mexicans are from Spain...

[soulless]

I'm going to play the Devil's Advocate.

 

If racism is defined as a belief in superiority of a race over an other, would it be a racist thing to say that evolution has brought about genetic differences among different people groups? For example, these differences may enable one group to survive more easily in colder climates, whereas the other group is better suited for hot, equatorial zones. The group that can fare better in the cold is obviously in possession of a trait that makes them superior in their own environment.

 

If it's not racist, where do we draw the line? Intellectual superiority?

 

Also, if a scientific study found out that a certain race is more intelligent than another, how should we react? Should we suppress the knowledge, even if it's the truth? Do we embrace it?

 

With all the Human races in the World there are 5 different types of Human skulls in the world each belonging to a different Race and they are very different. But they do not teach this in school, nor are you allowed to talk about it... So it already happens.

 

And did you know that if a Native Australian lives on Western food and lifestyle they will only live to 40 because their body rejects it.

[warri0r45]

I'm going to play the Devil's Advocate.

 

If racism is defined as a belief in superiority of a race over an other, would it be a racist thing to say that evolution has brought about genetic differences among different people groups? For example, these differences may enable one group to survive more easily in colder climates, whereas the other group is better suited for hot, equatorial zones. The group that can fare better in the cold is obviously in possession of a trait that makes them superior in their own environment.

 

If it's not racist, where do we draw the line? Intellectual superiority?

 

Also, if a scientific study found out that a certain race is more intelligent than another, how should we react? Should we suppress the knowledge, even if it's the truth? Do we embrace it?

 

With all the Human races in the World there are 5 different types of Human skulls in the world each belonging to a different Race and they are very different. But they do not teach this in school, nor are you allowed to talk about it... So it already happens.

 

And did you know that if a Native Australian lives on Western food and lifestyle they will only live to 40 because their body rejects it.

 

Your first point is total crap... there is just no significant difference in skull shape between different races.

 

Your second point is total crap, too. Aboriginals don't live to 40 because of the western lifestyle, it's because they're severely disadvantaged and live in poverty. If they actually had a western lifestyle, with proper education, plenty of food and medicine then they would have a life expectancy like any other Australian.

[XtaC]

1) What does it take for a country to be racist?

I think that for a country to be considered racist it must pass laws or make federal decisions against a certain race. To call a nation racist implies intentional racial attacks made by the government.

2) Is Australia a racist country? Why/why not?

I know little about Australia, so I can't really say much here.

3) Is your country a racist country? Why/why not?

I live in Canada, so I'd have to say no.

4) What does it take to determine that an assault or murder is racially motivated?

Racial motivation?

[The Dark Lord]

I'm going to play the Devil's Advocate.

 

If racism is defined as a belief in superiority of a race over an other, would it be a racist thing to say that evolution has brought about genetic differences among different people groups? For example, these differences may enable one group to survive more easily in colder climates, whereas the other group is better suited for hot, equatorial zones. The group that can fare better in the cold is obviously in possession of a trait that makes them superior in their own environment.

 

If it's not racist, where do we draw the line? Intellectual superiority?

 

Also, if a scientific study found out that a certain race is more intelligent than another, how should we react? Should we suppress the knowledge, even if it's the truth? Do we embrace it?

 

With all the Human races in the World there are 5 different types of Human skulls in the world each belonging to a different Race and they are very different. But they do not teach this in school, nor are you allowed to talk about it... So it already happens.

 

And did you know that if a Native Australian lives on Western food and lifestyle they will only live to 40 because their body rejects it.

 

Your first point is total crap... there is just no significant difference in skull shape between different races.

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craniofacial_anthropometry

 

Obviously, it depends on your definition of "significant". However, it's apparently different enough for archaeologists to determine someone's race.

 

It's also perfectly sound with the theory of evolution. People develop different traits over long periods of time through isolation. This isolation will obviously lead to varied gene pools among people groups. It's not crap, and there's nothing wrong with it.

[warri0r45]

Fair enough, I was wrong. I didn't realise race could be determined from skull shape alone.

[la la la]

Everyone is so over-reactive to racism. I believe that races do have their inherent strengths and weaknesses, but I'm not going to hate or stereotype another group of people for it.