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Originally Posted by kronic
Do I say racist stuff? Sure. 99% of the time it's in jest. My reasoning there is I don't want to treat those from a different race any different than I treat someone from my race.
Stereotypes are funny. Sometimes because they're so ridiculous, other times because they're eerily accurate. We've lost our sense of humor today because we're so afraid of offending everyone.
If people focused more on celebrating themselves and, dare I say it, their cultural DIFFERENCES, the world would be a much better place. But we want to pretend that whites, black, asians, etc etc are EXACTLY the same. We should all be TREATED the same, but culturally we're different. I'm not saying any culture is better or worse than the other, but they ARE different. Instead of trying to deny it, we should all celebrate it, acknowledge the differences and learn from each other. Until we do, we're never going to achieve any semblance of unity.
When we can do that, the fear of the unknown will go away. And that's pretty much the basis for all racism...fear of the unknown. It won't happen in my lifetime, or my kids. Hopefully one day it will, but at this point, I'm not very optimistic.
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In a perfect world we would all just embrace our differences, celebrate them and enjoy life. Sadly, racial prejudiced is alive and well and until we can squash that we will never have anything remotely resembling racial harmony.
I am just amused when people see something like this video and their response is not that it is bad, or those kids are stupid or anything like that, it is that if someone else did it it would be okay. To me it is like they aren't angry that these people did what they did, but they are angry that someone else may have been able to do what they did and get away with it. I don't know if they are jealous, or envious or they like to play the victim or what, but it fascinates me to see it happen.