<p>Don't you guys hate it when people collectivize race?</p>
<p>Like "white people" for example. To use the phrase "he is acting so white" or something is just plain ignorant to me. The "white race" is so diverse - you have subdivisions, like Midwestern "cowboys", southern Christians, Appalachian mountaineers, the southern cali vibe, the European whites, the New England intellectuals, and your city people. And even then, you'll find that the variety of different groups of whites that exist within those subdivisions. They are all so different - they have different origins, political views, and ways of life. Would you consider Russians to be considered "white"? What about Greeks? Moroccans? Egyptians? Mongolians? Can a "white" person be Muslim or Jewish?</p>
<p>I just read the Latino thread and it just angered me. Do you guys really think that it is possible to collectivize the entire Latino race? I am sure if you were to break it down and see the scores of Colombians and Argentinians, you will find their scores vastly different from Mexicans or Puertoricans. </p>
<p>Same thing with blacks and Asians. Yeah most Asians perform better than their counterparts, but not all. There are numerous Burmese and Cambodian gangs in America. Chinese too. And blacks, though they are the most under performing group in America, do you know what one of the highest is? African immigrants, who are a small group of blacks, like the condition of Barack Obama. Those who came to America not as a result of slavery, but of their own free will. In this sense, their motives are similar to Asians. Yet most people think Barack Obama is just your average black guy, that's why they may or may not vote for him.</p>
<p>But the problem arises from this very thread itself. Even within themselves, nationalities have very diverse ways of life. Look at Florida for example. If one were to collectivize all of Florida, it would be ignorant of that person to do so. Florida is so diverse - you have the large Caribbean influence in Miami, the southern Christian influence in northern Florida, and the diversity in central Florida. South Florida is socially liberal, whereas northern Florida is socially conservative. So to say Floridians act a certain way is ignorant.</p>
<p>And to those who say racism will never go away, well - the racism that existed between Irish and Wasps in the 19th century that was horrible - is pretty unknown in the modern era - now people can't tell the difference between Irish and British Americans. Same thing here - if we were to eliminate the concept of blacks and whites from our mind - then it would be nonexistent. Just like blondes and brunettes, tall people and short people.</p>
<p>And I know that I collectivize myself, evident in this thread. But I am only doing it to address a very pressing issue.</p>