Lawsuit Against Bandai Namco Claims Anti-American Racism

[MikeRox]

Aeolus451 said:

MikeRox said:

Again you are changing the definition of the word to fit your own narrower definition.

No, I'm simply explaining how the majority of americans see nationality and race. Older countries that have mainly one ethnicity in their country wouldn't see the difference between race and nationality like an american would. Americans often define themselves by their ethnicity first than many other things before they'll just plainly say they're american. 

I'm mixed with between irish, swedish, japanese and cherokee indian. I kinda just pick one based on my mood and check that box when I'm asked about my race. haha.  If you put 10 americans into a room and asked them what their race or ethnicity was, none of them of would say american. 

We have the same in the UK. Many consider themselves English, Irish or Scottish over British, and many are offended by the idea of being European.

This is the thing with race though, it's a broader term to define many different things rather than just ethnicity or ancestory. Racism is discriminating against somebody because of this. Ergo, you can be racist to an American on the grounds of saying "Americans are dumb". It is a racist comment, whether many people consider it racist or not.

This is why the "reverse racism" thing cracks me up, because it shows they actually have no idea what racism is. Much like how many people have no idea what a bigot is and seem to think it's just someone who is homophobic. The irony of course being with that word, most people using it are actually being bigotted themselves.

As I said, the term "race" applies to nationality it's part of it's definition. The United States of America is a nation. Ergo, all the people saying Americans aren't a race in this thread are quite simply wrong.