LuccaCardoso1 said:
That's unfortunately true. We have to try our best and minimize that part of us, though.
First time I entered the US, they asked me to fill in a form, and one of the questions was what my ethnicity is. That's a fairly common question in forms, actually.
Sorry, I don't think I was clear enough. This is much more of a historical question than it is a political one. My point is that the culture of the US is racist as it became normal to divide people into different races and attribute characteristics to each one of them. It became normal to say "Things Black Moms Say" or "black neighboorhood". Of course, people who say that aren't being racist, because this thing that was once racist became so embedded in the culture that it suddenly stopped being racist. It's kinda hard to explain to people that were raised in this culture, but I'm trying my best. My question is how did that happen in a country based on immigration that has so many ethnicities? Why are the ethnicities so divided when the tendency was for them to get mixed (as it happened in Brazil)? I'm not using racist here as "someone who thinks some ethnicities are superior", I'm using racist as "someone who divides people into races". And, in that sense, the US is racist. From that come terms that aren't offensive, but are racist, such as "white girl problems", "black culture", etc. |
Do you know what the definition of racist is? *shrugs Acknowledging the differences between different races and cultures is not racist. The US is a massive country and because of that we have different accents/slang/cultures on top of the American culture.