If white peple are not racist then why are they just rounding up hispanics and not asians or other Europeans?
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Because white people are just as racist as every other race!
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It is not just 'white' people who are moving out of those areas... it is more of a class issue than a race issue.\n\nNon-English speaking (illegal) hispanics are more likely to work on a cash only basis, more likely to rent rather than own, more likely to not pay taxes, and more likely to be on a more transient lifestyle. An area that has a more transient lifestyle, hispanic or not has a higher crime rate.\n\nThe problem of drugs, lack of education, non-english speaking community, free health-clinics to service the community without healthcare... all combine to lower housing values, which drives middle class whites, blacks, hispanics, and asians OUT of that area.\n\nIMO Anyone should be able to come to this country as long as they do 3 things...\n\n#1: Pay Taxes\n#2: Learn to speak english\n#3: Fly the American flag, not the flag of another nation\n#4: Obey the laws\n\nFrom what I have seen in Las Vegas, Dallas, Los Angeles and various other places I have lived and recently on TV, most people involved in this immigration 'protest' do not want to do any of those 4 things.\n\nAnyone who just pops in and says "You are racist" if you do not lay down the welcome mat to another country that wants to send their poor here to work, get free healthcare, free education and then send their earnings back to that country... Is just assanine, ignorant and uneducated.\n\nEdit: on the education front, when I was in school there was ESL for 'Mexicans'... ESL stood for English as a Second Language. However in the past few years, those parents no longer want their kids learning English in school at all. They are demanding that they recieve education in spanish, while flying the mexican flag, refusing to say the pledge of allegiance, not paying taxes to pay for that education, and getting free healthcare from Emergency Rooms that can not legally turn patients away...\n\nCredit Score? Most Illegals dont care about that, they only use cash anyways....\n\nIllegal Aliens have a NEGITIVE IMPACT on the economy, which means they TAKE more than they GIVE... ignore the idiots protesting in the street, it is just propoganda.\n\nThis is from the L.A. Times... (Surprising) Think about this... \n\n1. 40% of all workers in L. A. County (L. A. County has 10 million people) are working for cash and not paying taxes. This was because they are predominantly illegal immigrants, working without a green card. \n\n2. 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens. \n\n3. 75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens. \n\n4. Over 2/3's of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien \nMexicans on Medi-Cal whose births were paid for by taxpayers. \n\n5. Nearly 25% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally. \n\n6. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages. \n\n7. The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegal aliens from south of the border. \n\n8. Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal. \n\n9. 21 radio stations in L. A. are Spanish speaking. \n\n10. In L. A. County 5.1 million people speak English. 3.9 million speak \nSpanish (10.2 million people in L. A. County). \n\n(All 10 from the Los Angeles Times) \n\nLess than 2% of illegal aliens are picking our crops but 29% are on welfare. \n\nOver 70% of the United States annual population growth (and over 90% of California, Florida, and New York) results from immigration. \n\nThe cost of immigration to the American taxpayer in 1997 was a NET (after subtracting taxes immigrants pay) $70 BILLION a year, [Professor Donald Huddle, Rice University]. \n\nThe lifetime fiscal impact (taxes paid minus services used) for the average adult Mexican immigrant is a NEGATIVE \n\n29% of inmates in federal prisons are illegal aliens. \n\nIf they can come to this country to raise Hell and march by the thousands, Why can't they t
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Although the racists may not like this, we are a multicultural country, with a strong Hispanic Community that speaks Spanish and keeps Mexican traditions. I know they want to dissolve this, but it already exists, and one can be an American and a Mexican at the same time, joining twenty four million people that already do that.
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well I'm Hispanic and I was born here, and this is the only country I've ever been in. yet, people from other countries see me as  American and people who are from here see me as a wetback(Person that crosses the border). I don't think Caucasians are racist in general but they are some, just like there are racist from other ethnics. My personal opinion is that everyone stereotypes and labels people from their race, sex, or background, whether we think we do or don't, because that what we are taught to do.
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It's called a double standard.\nIt's the same as the way white men are racists and no one else is officially.
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they just don't "get" other cultures or ethnic backgrounds. you'd have to be completely whitewashed in order to be accepted. In some places, though people are more multicultural... especially in places with smaller populations. It's just with the bigger the population things start to split down racial lines.
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Seems like there are actually an abundance of "questions" by ignorant (and seemingly young) white people in which they degrade other races, creeds, ethnicities, etc.  Maybe the real question is: Why are we entertaining them?
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Forget whites.  Why do some BLACKS not admit that they are racist?  In my experience (and I apologize for generalizing) whites are the LEAST racist of all of the cultures.  It most definitely varies from region to region, but in my region (the very eclectic HOUSTON!) I do notice that white people focus less on race than the other cultures.  But it's not just true within my circle and region.  I see it in the media too.\n\nAnd please don't confuse my answer and think that I'm a white delusional racist.  Personally I haven't thought of people in terms of color since I was 10.  You are either polite or rude. Sweet or sour.  Smart or dumb.  Strong or weak.  I don't connect it to race.  Except for racism itself of course.
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White people say that people will call them racist if they have an organizations and I believe it's the other way around. White people are under the mentality that if they have an organization for themselves that will make them a racist. So they complain and say that they will be called a racist.
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if they are degrading Whites because of their race then I don't think you can call them Anti-racist, nor preachers of tolerance.\n\nand maybe you shouldn't call them multiculturalism either
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Ok, nows my chance to prove I'm not racist against white people. (since I'm 1/2 and 1/2)\nEVERYONE has the right to be here. Not every white person is an as shole. Just like not all Latinos are illegal. Just like not all black people are unsuccessful, broke, thug, thieves.  Just like not all Muslims are terrorists. Just like not all Japaneese people are tourists. \n\nSo you see, everyone's equal : ) \nPeace! \n\n*swish* \n2 points\n\nBUT WHY, WHY did you have to talk about the education system. That's the first thing loser adults complain about.
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I think what you meant by your statement about how "white ppl can be so blind" is not that you are calling all white people racist, but rather, you are wondering why white people seem to have a harder time seeing the consequences of racism or identifying their own racism.\n\nI think everyone is racist to some degree.  From my experience, there are two groups who admit it: \n\nThe first are those that are KKK-like extremists.  They admit to it, encourage it, and try to covert people to their belief system.\n\nThe second are people who try to not be racist, but were socialized or conditioned to see differences and attribute generalizations to people possessing those differences.\n\nI find the latter group - people who acknowledge their racism, are embarrassed by it and are trying to overcome it -- to generally be less racist than those who say "I am not racist."  Everyone who I have ever met that said "I am not a racist", I have found to be just that!\n\nTo those that say they are not racist, who do they want to find in a life partner?  Do you have requirements when it comes to specific race, gender, socio economic level, religion, body type, national origin or cultural heritage?  Don't lie.  eveyone does.  Well, that can be construed as racist, homophobic, classist, ethnophobic, etc.  We are all guilty. Admit it.\n\nYes, racism is in almost every skin color - but it's not necessarily racism based on skin color... it is bigtory based on any difference.  It Ruwanda it wasn't white people committing genocide, it was between the Tutsis and the Hutus.  In Germany, it was Aryan people against mostly other Caucasians.  In Germany it is now against the Turks.  In the catholic church it is against the homosexuals - not a race, but a difference in sexual orientation.  In the gay community there is bigotry against Transgendered people.  \n\nBasically, the real issue is not whether Latinos are racist against white people (which for some reason comes up all the time here at Yahoo Answers), but whether people in power and/or with authority are bigoted against a group with less power and/or authority.\n\nThink about it: What has a greater effect?  We have 2 imaginary men: The Senator from North Carolina and a Dishwasher from the local Olive Garden (I am making this up as an example... I don't know anything about the Senator from North Carolina, and I really hate the Olive Garden).  Both think that women don't belong in the workforce.  So, obviously in this scenario, both are sexist.  But, who really cares if the dishwasher is sexist?  What impact does that have on society?  That is not going to impact me, or anyone else for that matter outside of his family.  On the otherhand, if someone who has authority, who can make decisions that impact my life, that can create laws, that has more authority than I do, hates me for my gender, race, creed, weight, or sexual orientation, that is where it become an issue.  \n\nSo, to answer your question, because Caucasians are in a position of power in the United States, they do not directly feel the effects of racism.  They do hear it when it's blatant: when the KKK burns a cross on a lawn or when the Mayor of New Orleans uses the term Chocolate to describe his city, but they don't notice that standardized test questions are targeted toward the white middle class experience.  Math questions about the speed of two roller coaster cars don't make as much sense to someone who has never seen an amusement park.  A rat to a wealthy child might be a pet or a test subject - an animal that can be touched.  A rat to a poor child is more likely viewed as a bearer of disease, a pest.  When test writers don't take these differences into account when writing questions, it is subtle racism and classism that favors those who are of their status. My favorite example is Coco, the gorilla that knew sign language, got an answer wrong on an IQ test because she poi
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Hispanic is a race just like Caucasians or African American.We do not like getting grouped with Americans cuz were Hispanic.
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there are quite a few on here i suppose but the vast majority of whites are not racist.  don't let the few give all of us a bad name or they have won their little game.  Personally i generally skip over racist questions, so i would think alot of people do and therefore you would never hear from us.  maybe its time to get alittle more involved.
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None of you are white! You Spaniards, Italians and Greeks are all brown, brown, brown!\n\nAnd, you, a Spaniard touting your "whiteness?" PLEASE! Look at your Moorish ancestors and say that again!\n\nSpain is not white. Maybe in its own eyes only!
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The racists aren't white.
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I fully understand, I'm also Irish, German, Italian, etc... but I am just white nothing more nothing less.  My fiance and I had a argument about it the other day about how Puerto Ricans get furious if you call them anything else, same with Jamaicans, and every other race, but we are nothing but white people to them.  They don't care they just say that it's nothing but more white...