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So when CAN you call someone a racist?
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that is Randall 'tex' cob, the pride of Abilene
he is not a racist.
He is friends with Joe Frazier. That is total race cred.
I host a podcast about movies.
There are certain cultural characteristics that mark most of the East Asian region. Their cultures are different in many ways, to be sure, but there are a variety of things they do tend to share.
I've never known anyone who has taken an unconscious bias test. Do these tests check againsts any variables other than race? How do the influences of other variables compare to the influence of race in bias? What does the control group look like? Seriously, that's the sort of claim that needs backing up. I'll grant that people form expectations based on appearances, but that's not the same thing as claiming everyone is a racist.
Confucianism and various forms of it is and has been a large part of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese cultures, for example. The problem of misogyny can at least partially be attributed to that tradition, that is still present in many aspects of societies, including both Koreas. Buddhist traditions are also fairly common, and, I think I've seen sanstodo remark on it, but I recently talked to a group of East Asians (Taiwanese, Japanese, and (Hong Kong) Chinese that remarked on the relative "femininity" of Asian culture to American culture.
Absolutely. I'm not saying that East Asians are more homogeneous (innately or otherwise) than Western Europeans and Americans, simply that it's not invariably inappropriate to consider the region as a whole. Frequently, as you said earlier, people will be insulted if you conflate one very distinct culture with another.
Which, ultimately, brings it down to 'cism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia#Territories_and_regions
I know. I don't tend to consider India a part of East Asia (which is what we were talking about), for no reason other than I arbitrarily designated it a part of "Southeast Asia" a long time ago. We could talk about Buddhism, and the travel it made from India, to China, and eventually Japan, where I think Zen Buddhism was refined.
There are some internet tests that involve matching "good words" and "bad words" with, say, black and white faces with some reaction speed required. They infer from this involuntary association. I'm not sure whether the results of these tests are generally accepted, but I'll be damned if I didn't misassociate words more with some groups more than others.
Buddhism and associated cultural artifacts can be linked from East Asia to Southeastern Asia ("India"). Islam and associated traditions has a thread that goes from Western Asia to far Southeastern Asia.
I took that test. I got the rather common associating black people and bad words thing. However, I did associate white people with guns.
GG being a redneck, Cango?
GG indeed.
Also, Im gonna use this as a rant.
The term "African American" as a title for someone with dark skin annoys me. Because it implies 2 things
1) They live in America
2) They were born in Africa
It doesnt work that way. The guy down the road from me isnt an African American. Hes black. I'm white. Of course his skin color isnt literally black, nor is mine white, but it gets the point across, and is far more accurate than 'African American'
Its no different than hair color. Someone may be called a 'red head.' No, their hair isnt red, its an orangish red with hints of brown. But when you say, "Oh, he's a red head" You have a semi accurate statement that describes the person in a way that others can understand.
I'm thinking not many are in the same boat as me on this subject though.
And another edited rant, because aparrently I really want to get called a racist today. And that is this "African heritage" crap.
A guy with dark skin can throw around the red/green/black colors everywhere, and yell abotu his african pride, and celebrate kwanza even though it has nothing to do with Africa, and do all this even though he doesnt actually know that his ancestry is from Africa at all, hes just assuming that because hes black, and in some cases can probably name no more than 1 african country, if that.
But God forbid that a white guy who was born and raised below the mason-dixon line, whos entire ancestory has lived in the south since the 1700's, whos ancestor's helped colonize the south, put up a confederate flag. Because thats not him celebrating his heritage. Thats him wanting to kill all the darkies. Right?
Okay, i'm done now.
How similar is "that similar"? Have Confucianism and neo-Confucianism not played a significant role in shaping society in China, Korea, and Japan?
The iterations of different titles for races/ ethnicities has generally speaking been a search for a neutral identifier. I believe that some earlier associations with "black" were regarded as negative and pejorative, but are pretty neutral today, while the preferred "negro" and "colored" of the civil rights era have taken on some uncomfortable associations.
I have. I'm something like eight credits away from a Bachelor's in history, and a massive chunk of that involves histories and politics in East and Southeast Asia.
Have Confucianism and neo-Confucianism not played a significant role in shaping society in China, Korea, and Japan?
If that's supposed to demonstrate racism I must not be understanding your explanation of the testing mechanism correctly.
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Buddhist-affected-culture prom is at least as valid as Confucianism-affected-culture prom.
I'm probably explaining it poorly. Let me see if I can find it
Here it is:
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/
but then again i go into it thinking "lol i'm supposed to associate black faces with bad stuff"
Humans share traits.
I'm not sure why there was such a tizzy over it. I assumed it was an innocuous side-comment.
Which is somewhat circular.
That wasn't really what I was going for.
Hence the sharpness of my reaction.
You're generally sane.
Anyways, the point of it all is, many groups intentionally segregate themselves, even if the populace at large is happy to accept them. Largely, I imagine, because people rather often move for money, not for culture.
Wait- I'm not disputing the first sentence, but I don't understand how it connects to the second.
If you move to an area because of the money, you are less likely to give a flying fuck about the actual culture around you, and instead will tend to try to pretend you are in your homeland, only with money.
I'm pretty goddamn racist. Intellectually, I'm pretty clean, so far as I can tell, but I grew up in a scarily conservative and bleach-white town, and it wasn't good at all for my prejudicial instincts.
Gotcha. Also, I would argue that conservative elements of cultures tend to create a downward spiral of, uh, ghettoization and defacto segregation.