<p>You ever wonder why are we so racist. Why did we keep slavery longer than any other top economic country? Why do we have constant discrimination, so much so that we need Affirmative action laws and whatnot?</p>
<p>My theory: Everyone is racist. However other countries are not diverse as we are, so it is much easier to claim nativism and hate foreigners for taking your jobs and hurting your economy. </p>
<p>Thoughts?</p>
<p>Lay off the blow?</p>
<p>whoa there...save the rhetoric for November</p>
<p>The country isn't racist but some of the people in the country are. The exception is when the US or state governments practice racial bias for college admissions, contracts, etc.</p>
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<p>aka affirmative action.</p>
<p>Well..everyone has an inherent bias...</p>
<p>You should take the IAT test...</p>
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<p>Affirmative Action is racism, mike.</p>
<p>How can we all come from africa and still have blonde hair and blue eyes and have really pale people and such?</p>
<p>A religious scholar once told me that we actually started with 3 different races and diversity expanded from there.</p>
<p>Those IAT tests are interesting. I'm taking them right now.</p>
<p>Where can I find some of these IAT tests?</p>
<p>im in NYC now.</p>
<p>i see a lot of african americans begging for food on subway, i rarely give them any money.</p>
<p>however, IF i see an asian begging for food (havent seen one yet), i would definitely give him like 3 bucks.</p>
<p>that makes me a racist??!</p>
<p>Humans have always had a history of hatred for its own species. Certain people simply feel they are better than others and they take that feeling to the extreme. Hatred and discrimination cause nothing but chaos but humans, in the big picture, are incapable of living peacefully.</p>
<p>^Yeah that's really true. As Hemingway said, "The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness."</p>
<p>America was built on the sweet smell of racism. It's in our government, it's in the schools we go to, the roads we drive on, the music we listen to, it's in our genes. Once we can accept that as a fact we can move on from there.</p>
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<p>We didn't all pop out of Africa last year; hundreds of thousands of years of evolution took place, allowing diversification to occur depending on surroundings.</p>
<p>The few scientists who still believe in race will recognize at least 5 different races, so your religious scholar seems to be stuck in the 18th century or something.</p>
<p>Racism is only a symptom of the human illness of control and domination. If all the minorities were expelled from the U.S., would discrimination cease? Absolutely not. People will always find ways to pick differences with each other, because the easiest way to gain power is to step on others by dividing and conquering. Once the minorities leave America, there will be a redefinition of what is white, and the newer immigrants like the Italians and Irish will get screwed again.</p>
<p>What humanity needs is an alien invasion, so we can direct our hostility towards a different race, instead of within.</p>
<p>one of the best posts on CC, nbachris2788.</p>
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The few scientists who still believe in race...
Since when do only a few scientists "believe" in race? To be sure, few delve into sincere scientific studies of race. More don't follow for fear of being ostracized or labeled "racist." What we all need to get straight is that racial differences are real. Those who deny this are irrational and are not scientists.</p>
<p>I believe racism should be defined as a hatred for those of particular races. "Racism" as a term should be reserved for situations in which it is genuinely warranted. That in mind, I don't believe affirmative action, for example, is racist because I'm sure its developers truly believed it was good.</p>
<p>Nor do I believe lack of blacks in colleges and universities to show "institutional racism." Perhaps blacks are simply inherently less capable of learning than whites. But of course for me to even mention such a possibility makes me a racist.</p>
<p>Every country has racism to some extent.</p>
<p>Nor do I believe lack of blacks in colleges and universities to show "institutional racism." Perhaps blacks are simply inherently less capable of learning than whites. But of course for me to even mention such a possibility makes me a racist.</p>
<p>That's a racist assessement. I'm sorry but blacks are as capable of learning as whites. People just keep having these insane thoughts they used to have in the XVII century... come on let's open our eyes, we were all born equal and equal we shall remain!
But you know the Us isn't the only racist country... I spend 5 years in Paris and the foreign population is also regarded with loathing.</p>