No, it's a product of lack of proper education. Racism in it natural habitat is normal. You don't see mynah birds cohabitating or nesting or hanging out with Eagles or Buzzards do you? They're are all birds, just like we are all humans. But naturally, "birds of a feather, flock together". However, we are supposed to be above the lesser animals (although I wonder about that), and because of that, we are supposed to be above that. But as can be seen, the baser instincts are usually only just below the surface for a lot of people......alexious wrote:Racism is just wrong!
Racism is an act of ignorance.
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SOME PEOPLE TRY TO TURN BACK THEIR ODOMETERS. NOT ME. I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW WHY I LOOK THIS WAY. I'VE TRAVELED A LONG WAY, AND SOME OF THE ROADS WEREN'T PAVED. ~ Will Rogers
ksl agrees with that!sundaymorningstaple wrote:No, it's a product of lack of proper education. Racism in it natural habitat is normal. You don't see mynah birds cohabitating or nesting or hanging out with Eagles or Buzzards do you? They're are all birds, just like we are all humans. But naturally, "birds of a feather, flock together". However, we are supposed to be above the lesser animals (although I wonder about that), and because of that, we are supposed to be above that. But as can be seen, the baser instincts are usually only just below the surface for a lot of people......alexious wrote:Racism is just wrong!
Racism is an act of ignorance.
Is not ignorance a lack of proper education?sundaymorningstaple wrote:No, it's a product of lack of proper education. Racism in it natural habitat is normal. You don't see mynah birds cohabitating or nesting or hanging out with Eagles or Buzzards do you? They're are all birds, just like we are all humans. But naturally, "birds of a feather, flock together". However, we are supposed to be above the lesser animals (although I wonder about that), and because of that, we are supposed to be above that. But as can be seen, the baser instincts are usually only just below the surface for a lot of people......alexious wrote:Racism is just wrong!
Racism is an act of ignorance.

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To exclude your own kind because they are slightly different that yourself is showing a racial preference, hence 'birds of a feather". However, as we ARE supposed to be above that, you can argue that it is your personal preference and it may well be, but one can only draw that conclusion if one has sampled the various waters, so as to make the comparison. Preference mean having tried something and found it wanting so you have a different set of preferences. You cannot "prefer" sprite over rootbeer if you have never tried rootbeer!
Ignorance is a product primarily of genetics, I've seen too many people who have gone to school and for all the teaching in the world, they remain ignorant. On the other hand, if one hasn't been educated, then who knows their actual capabilities could be. (course that's what IQ tests are supposed to measure - capabilities not actual knowledge) A good example you can find right here in Singers. 33 years of courtesy campaigns and they still haven't learn the basic rudiments of courtesy. :hiding from brickbats under the table smilie:

Ignorance is a product primarily of genetics, I've seen too many people who have gone to school and for all the teaching in the world, they remain ignorant. On the other hand, if one hasn't been educated, then who knows their actual capabilities could be. (course that's what IQ tests are supposed to measure - capabilities not actual knowledge) A good example you can find right here in Singers. 33 years of courtesy campaigns and they still haven't learn the basic rudiments of courtesy. :hiding from brickbats under the table smilie:
SOME PEOPLE TRY TO TURN BACK THEIR ODOMETERS. NOT ME. I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW WHY I LOOK THIS WAY. I'VE TRAVELED A LONG WAY, AND SOME OF THE ROADS WEREN'T PAVED. ~ Will Rogers
Preferences not based on experience (or knowledge) are based on personal beliefs so I have no objections.
Because this is foreign to their culture and is neither enforced to be learnt nor executed in real life. This is something like a government in Europe/US would try to convince its citizens that they should adapt Japanese etiquette and start bowing.sundaymorningstaple wrote:A good example you can find right here in Singers. 33 years of courtesy campaigns and they still haven't learn the basic rudiments of courtesy. :hiding from brickbats under the table smilie:
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Do you honestly believe that? I've worked throughout Asia for the past quarter of a century and I don't find that to be true at all.x9200 wrote: Because this is foreign to their culture ............

SOME PEOPLE TRY TO TURN BACK THEIR ODOMETERS. NOT ME. I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW WHY I LOOK THIS WAY. I'VE TRAVELED A LONG WAY, AND SOME OF THE ROADS WEREN'T PAVED. ~ Will Rogers
Yes, I really do - I do not have any better explanation. I also can see how we ourselves are affected by our own culture. I see people of the same race behaving completely different because they come from a different country (still within SE Asia). I know first hand examples how people can get transformed in their working environment from being virtual idiots unable to answer simple question "why?" to be fully competent in their responses - and this is not by knowledge or IQ, this is by changing the habit from "doing it as this is an order from my boss" to "thinking what and why I am doing it".sundaymorningstaple wrote:Do you honestly believe that? I've worked throughout Asia for the past quarter of a century and I don't find that to be true at all.x9200 wrote: Because this is foreign to their culture ............
What are the alternatives anyway?
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You should be a politician! You make one statement that I quoted, and then in your response to me you say the opposite. It's either cultural or it isn't. Or maybe you think culture is nationalistic/regional instead of ethnic?x9200 wrote:Yes, I really do - I do not have any better explanation. I also can see how we ourselves are affected by our own culture. I see people of the same race behaving completely different because they come from a different country (still within SE Asia). I know first hand examples how people can get transformed in their working environment from being virtual idiots unable to answer simple question "why?" to be fully competent in their responses - and this is not by knowledge or IQ, this is by changing the habit from "doing it as this is an order from my boss" to "thinking what and why I am doing it".sundaymorningstaple wrote:Do you honestly believe that? I've worked throughout Asia for the past quarter of a century and I don't find that to be true at all.x9200 wrote: Because this is foreign to their culture ............
What are the alternatives anyway?
SOME PEOPLE TRY TO TURN BACK THEIR ODOMETERS. NOT ME. I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW WHY I LOOK THIS WAY. I'VE TRAVELED A LONG WAY, AND SOME OF THE ROADS WEREN'T PAVED. ~ Will Rogers
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It is cultural in both cases. The culture is the whole thing, not just bits, pieces isolated habits or customs. Some behaviour are result of something missing (foreign to a local culture, and for example native to our) some are present (so foreign to our culture native to the local one). Culture is a set of moral, social and intellectual developments so it can be national/regional/ethnic/religious etc. It is limited by a social group rather than location, population size or formal nationality. This is at least how I see it.sundaymorningstaple wrote:You should be a politician! You make one statement that I quoted, and then in your response to me you say the opposite. It's either cultural or it isn't. Or maybe you think culture is nationalistic/regional instead of ethnic?x9200 wrote:I see people of the same race behaving completely different because they come from a different country (still within SE Asia).sundaymorningstaple wrote: Do you honestly believe that? I've worked throughout Asia for the past quarter of a century and I don't find that to be true at all.
maybe it escaped my brief reading of this thread but i have not seen any comment clarifying (before the thread being hijacked by the piss police and asian behavior control patrols) that the guy actions, as described by the OP, are not racist at all, the spitting was uncalled and irreverent but not racist... first: "american" is not a race and third point fifty eight: his anger had/has a political motivation.
a very badly managed and uncivilized way to express his ideas using gross generalizations and bodily fluids, that is for sure, but not racist.
and about this comment:
a very badly managed and uncivilized way to express his ideas using gross generalizations and bodily fluids, that is for sure, but not racist.
and about this comment:
yep, is disgusting... dogs are smarter and better than any 12 yrs old boy/girl... and they probably have better music taste too, totally disgusting that comparison... i am appalled.econoMIC wrote:One last thing: please don't compare a 12 year old boy with a dog. That is disgusting.
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Indeed, dogs are way smarter.hibri2 wrote:yep, is disgusting... dogs are smarter and better than any 12 yrs old boy/girl... and they probably have better music taste too, totally disgusting that comparison... i am appalled.
I asked our dog for his opinion on this and he fully agreed as well.....

But btw, dogs can be quite discriminating too.
Ours for example dislikes Arabs.
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