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DieAppleDie on 31 July 2012

racist is not the word
its more mistrust towards strangers, not matter which race
so racist is not the word



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Ssenkahdavic on 31 July 2012

I hate Martians. They dont play video games!



 

  

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Mr Khan on 31 July 2012
haxxiy said:
I do believe races exist. Does that make me a racist? They can be different among themselves and not necessarily more or less evolved.

I'm also against mass immigration because that would eventually kill diversity. Yeah, think about it. Honestly, being OK with the ancestral population of your country, who exists only on your country, being replaced by some blokes from who knows where is just... fuck.

Maybe that's a form of racism on itself, just backfiring. White people see themselves as the default humans and are OK with some exotic elements among themselves, think that's like cool and wow, except the exotic elements are the majority of the world's population.

OK, maybe I went a bit off topic but that's still relevant to related discussions. Anti-racists hit a nerve on me. Once I saw a map with a big title "THE HATE MAP" and it was actually about the amount of people on each european country... who thought there were too many immigrants. Yes, really.

The idea is that culture is now mobile with people mobility. The dilution of "native homelands" is offset by the fact that now you can get, among other things, actual authentic Chinese food in parts of America, or can find Turkish barbeque on the streets of Tokyo.

The anti-immigration noise, i've noticed, seems to come from populations that are moribund. Russians, Japanese, and most of Europe is dying out, so they're not effectively culturally exporting.



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Chris Hu on 31 July 2012

Not really, even though I grew up in Germany which I don't consider racially diverse at least not much when I lived their born in 1972 left in April of 1988. Also went to a high school that was predominately African American pretty much was the only white kid in all of my classes. But everyone is a little racist but that's not something to be proud of.



Chris Hu on 31 July 2012
Ajescent said:
Never understood: Why do Brazilians only have first names?


All Brazilians have full names is just that some of them want to only be know by their nicknames kinda like Madonna, Prince and Pink.



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Ajescent on 31 July 2012
Chris Hu said:
Ajescent said:
Never understood: Why do Brazilians only have first names?


All Brazilians have full names is just that some of them want to only be know by their nicknames kinda like Madonna, Prince and Pink.

Oh, I always assumed that was the norm, with so many of them only going by their first/nick name



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brendude13 on 31 July 2012

I'm definitely not racist, but I'm politically incorrect.



NintendoPie on 31 July 2012
spurgeonryan said:
mysticwolf said:
I wouldn't say racist, but mostly just a little more cautious. In my experience black people are more violent. I know plenty of black people who aren't that way at all, but its just my experience. In elementary and high school, black people would pick on me.

Black people are more intimidating anyway.


So then you are racist. Why are black people anymore violent than White people? We have killed billions of humans throughout history. Up until the 1960's and maybe even later in some areas, whites oppressed the African Americans in AMerica. Probably even all over the world. Was it BLACK OR WHITE that Just Murdered a dozen people in Colorado?

White people are fearless.

(Tosh.0 reference. ;P )



NintendoPie on 31 July 2012

Ummm... I'm pretty sure everyone has thought something racist or said something racist.

Even if you don't notice it yourself.



haxxiy on 31 July 2012
Mr Khan said:
haxxiy said:
I do believe races exist. Does that make me a racist? They can be different among themselves and not necessarily more or less evolved.

I'm also against mass immigration because that would eventually kill diversity. Yeah, think about it. Honestly, being OK with the ancestral population of your country, who exists only on your country, being replaced by some blokes from who knows where is just... fuck.

Maybe that's a form of racism on itself, just backfiring. White people see themselves as the default humans and are OK with some exotic elements among themselves, think that's like cool and wow, except the exotic elements are the majority of the world's population.

OK, maybe I went a bit off topic but that's still relevant to related discussions. Anti-racists hit a nerve on me. Once I saw a map with a big title "THE HATE MAP" and it was actually about the amount of people on each european country... who thought there were too many immigrants. Yes, really.

The idea is that culture is now mobile with people mobility. The dilution of "native homelands" is offset by the fact that now you can get, among other things, actual authentic Chinese food in parts of America, or can find Turkish barbeque on the streets of Tokyo.

The anti-immigration noise, i've noticed, seems to come from populations that are moribund. Russians, Japanese, and most of Europe is dying out, so they're not effectively culturally exporting.

I don't think that's exactly what the majority of the population would prefer if corporations weren't pushing for globalization and integration. Population decline could also be considered a part of it: when people are given incentives to follow a hedonistic, hypermaterialistc lifestyle, there's little time to think on settling down or dedicating time to something that's not that cool (like taking care of children) when you can obtain pleasure everywhere, everytime. Also, it can be argued that declining national power and identity plays into the hands of corporations, but I'm digressing here.

I'm not here to be an ass and say "hey, it's natural to have children, go forth and breed", just that taking into account sociological and historical factors, when you have no issues with climate disasters or starvation, or wars, a declining population definitely isn't a good sign. I'm not saying too that everything about globalization is bad - it's pretty awesome to go to the shopping center and ask for chinese food. Just that most immigrants aren't coming to open restaurants, are they?

Although, that being said, I don't think the anti-immigration noise, is that exclusive from declining populations. The chinese and the koreans are probably more xenophobic than the japanese or the russians. Besides, Russia is on track for record population growth this year, ethnical russian population, so yeah. Germany now has more of a populational issue than Russia, but besides the late East Germany, I don't see them being as xenophobic.  They're on track to be, but I don't know if that's going to sustain. The point is that - yes, a declining population plays into but, but it's more of a cultural thing, the seemingly desperate need for immigration and the imposition of accepting them.