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ThatDizzyChick -> RE: Is this racist? (5/27/2016 5:59:20 PM)
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Just take a walk in Beijing city, and you'll see how everybody just slams into you without a word, when they wanna walk pass you. It's normal behaviour there, but piss the hell outta me!
That is not racial, that is cultural. Just as the idea that Canadians are polite. We're noyt actually any more polite than anybody else, we just have a culture that promotes the idea of superficial politeness to strangers as a method of avoiding confrontation. here's another example of a cultural thing. In the UK (or at least in London), it is for some reason considered rude to make eye contact with strangers on the underground, to the point that they have posters reminding people not to do that. Yet here in Canada it is considered polite to do so, to make eye contact and acknowledge other people. Same action, very different cultural interpretations.
While it is generally popular to say that there is always some truth to any stereotype, the thing is that that truth is based on culture and/or situation and not race.
Take the very prevalent racial stereotype in Canada that First nations people are somehow prone to alcoholism and drug addiction. Well there is a factual basis for that stereotype, alcohol and drug abuse are far more prevelent in the First nations population than in any other. However the reason is not racial, meaning it is not a result of some race-based DNA factor, but rather it is situational. The majority of the First nations people grow up and live in utterly dead end communities on reserves, which are, by design, located on the least valuable and useful land, they are generally remote and poorly serviced (even with such generally accepted as universal things as electricity or running water), with underfunded fourth rate schools and no real economic opportunities. So what the fuck else are people going to do other than get drunk or stoned to escape the crushing poverty and lack of any real opportunity.
In the First Nations bands located in places like Southern Ontario, where they are more fully integrated into the modern world, they do not have these same alcohol.drug issues, or at least not to a degree substantially different from their neighbouring non-native communities.
The same alcohol/drug issues are apparent in all marginalized populations, regardless of their race, therefore it is clearly not a racially based issue, and yet in the eyes and minds of each dominant culture, the alcohol/drug issues of their own particuular marginalized racial group is deemed a racial stereotype.
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