A question about race...?
958558
I agree 100%.  That was the entire problem with affirmative action--on the one hand non-whites cried and cried and cried that they wanted to be treated equally so when the government gave preferential treatment to non-whites they accepted it whole-heartedly (which was NOT for equality but for preferential treatment.)  Non-whites got into college with lower SAT and ACT scores simply because of their race.  When affirmative action was done away with here in California, the number of non-whites going to college fell way back down and now there are cries of racism by non-whites accusing the government of not giving non-whites preferential treatment.  Simply stated, non-whites want to get into college without having to work as hard as whites do.  If I were not white I would HATE affirmative action because it states implicitly that non-whites are simply too dumb to compete with whites.  \n\nMost ethnic holidays do tend to divide the culture a little bit, but not as much as you may think.  I don't think I've EVER met a Mexican who knows what Cinco de Mayo is even celebrating.  All they know is it a time to watch mom and dad get drunk on Coronas and play mariachi music until some non-Mexican neighbors can't take it any more and call the cops.  NO black person really celebrates Quansa and NONE of them have a clue what they are supposed to be celebrating anyway.  So I don't give those holidays much thought anyway.  But concepts like black-history month are definately preferential to blacks.  And as a white teacher it is a no-win situation.  If I DON'T teach special things during black history month, the black students ask me why I don't.  So then if I DO devote special time to teach about black heros or black issues then the SAME students ask me what I'm doing trying to teach blacks about THEIR culture--they ARE black.  They think that simply by being born black they somehow have innate knowledge about their history.  Believe me--they DON'T.  Neither did I have an innate knowledge of white history by being born white.\n\nIt is a volatile subject no how you approach it though.
1062592
Why do we need to get into more race things? You know there are plenty of racist on this site:\n\nHeres a couple\n\nThey are lazy. Not true\nThey are all on welfare. Not true. Actually white's outnumber blacks by an overwhelming majority.\n\nForget the movie and television stereotypes. Black youths are less likely to smoke, drink alcohol and use drugs than whites and Hispanics, a study shows. \nBlack youngsters, nonetheless, mistakenly believe their peers smoke, drink and do drugs more than other groups. \n\nThe study in the journal Health Communications was written by Michelle Miller-Day, associate professor of communication arts and sciences at Penn State University, and Jacqueline M. Barnett, assistant professor of communication studies at Bloomsburg University in Columbia County. \n\nIn a sample of 67 seventh-graders from Memphis, Tenn., they found that 16 percent of the black students had used alcohol, tobacco and other drugs, compared to 24 percent of the whites. \n\nStephen Thomas, director of the Center for Minority Health at the University of Pittsburgh, said the study exposes "the big lie." \n\n"If we were to go on the streets of Pittsburgh and stop 100 people, I'm going to predict that 90 percent of them would agree with the statement that black teens are more likely to be involved in alcohol and drug abuse than white teens. \n\n"And the reality is black teens are less likely to be abusing drugs and alcohol and tobacco, and that has been the case since the time this data has been collected." \n\nOne such study, the University of Michigan's Monitoring the Future Survey, shows that blacks in grades 8-12 rank lowest in using substances. \n\nBut almost two of three blacks in Miller-Day's study perceived that black adolescents take more drugs than white or Hispanic youths. \n\n"That's one thing I'd like to pursue further," Miller-Day said. "I speculate it's because of media portrayals of blacks."
884920
Well the simple fact that you actually feel the need to state your family race mixture is ridiculous, Why can we not ask valid questions in a mature and rational way without having to worry about "offending" anyone. The mere fact that you need to write a paragraph stating that you are not racist and merely asking a question, is racism on their part...A white person should be able to ask a simple question about another race and not been seen as a racist, but as of now everyone is racist to some extent. whether it be a good or bad assumption about a race. I have not seen any official lawsuits against an African American.vs.Caucasian but I am sure there are there...plenty of situations in my town would validate one.
642412
I am white. very white. Scottish-German-Swede.\n\nand my "race" is NOT superior to any other race. all "races" are just as good as each other--equal.
749343
One's race is not just a color, it is the entire genetic makeup of their people. That is why there are literally hundreds of scientifically provable differences between the races.  These include bone structure, muscle structure, hair texture, hormonal levels, and average intelligence. This is to be expected because there is over 60,000 years of divergent genetic evolution between the races, and this divergent genetic evolution occurred in very different enviroments. Please educate yourself. Your question makes you sound like a naive politically correct sheep who doesn't understand science or history.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence
1076761
Oh, yes. Why are some people so hung up on a person's race? I'm more concerned about morals and personality than I am about race. Some people just need to grow up and get educated.
45088
if race shouldn't matter, then race shouldn't be on the application.\n\ncan you imagine if they asked what polital party you belonged to?\n\nto me, asking for someone's race on an application is clearly a form of racism, and one that doesn't always harm or benefit the race of the person being asked.\n\n//
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>>>Why is it when asking a question about Blacks, it is thought to be RACIST? \n\nBecause it almost inevitably is. Racism is simply an assumption that characteristics are caused by or correlated to race. Asking “Why do black people do X” IS inherently racist. It can’t be otherwise. There are certainly questions about blacks that aren’t; racist, but they are rare around here.\n\n>>>>>Is this question racist in nature?\n\n\nNo, because it doesn’t assume any characteristics are linked to race. For example you haven’t assumed that Black people will all answer the same way. Had you made such an assumption then it would be racist.
681387
What would you need to say? I would say that any person, regardless of their race or nationality, is just a person. We all have our faults and our good points. I think you need to look at a person for WHO they are, not what color they are. We all bleed the same color right?
720330
Human race. Pretty soon there will only be one race anyway so it would be a moot point.
623744
Not everyone mixes races. But sometimes you happen to meet someone and see past the race thing.
1123083
Nope.  I'm no better than he is.  We're all God's children.  Like it or not.  And if you aren't racist, why would you even ask that?  I truly feel like we are all a little racist, whether we know it or not.  If we weren't, we wouldn't see anyone as being a different race or a different color.  But the reality is that we do.  How we deal with it is the problem.....
966469
Here you go\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_condition\n\n///
986707
hell yes!!!!!!!!! race has nothing to do with that or anything. if you have to hate anybody for something hate someone because of something they did not the way they were born
513066
Well, I think this kind of questions are very debatable.\nNone can answer it correctly. Each race will argue that thier race is stronger and another will deny that.
1169512
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!OMG\nLMAO,LOLOLOLOLOLO\nThat clip was hilarious!!!!!!!!\nomg!Thanks.\nOh yeah,I forgot to answer (again).It's not an issue of race for everyone.But unfortunetly it is with some ppl.It sucks.
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>>>>Not to be racist, but it's as if only white people are >>>>allowed to have an identity.\n\nThat's simply not true. \n\nHow many people do you know of who could explain the cultural differences between a Libyan and a Turk? To most Americans they are simply Arabs, white or not. Similarly how many people do you know of who could distinguish between a Boer and a white Kenyan based purely on cultural difference? Both are simply Africans. How many people do you think understand the difference between a Georgian and a Muscovite? How about a Berber and a Taureg? A Kurd and a Sikh? A Lapp and an Norwegian?\n\nYet those are all white people. Quite clearly this cultural ignorance has nothing whatsoever to with skin colur or race.\n\n\n>>>>>Nobody confuses an Irishman with an Italian just \n>>>>>because they are "European".\n\nThat is because America has huge numbers of Italian and Irish immigrants. Try the average American on groups from European areas that haven't emigrated to the US in large numbers. How many people wouldn't confuse a Dane and Norwegian as both being Scandinavian? Or a Frenchman and a Belgian? Or a Spaniard and a Portugese?\n\nFor perhaps the perfect example, even after 20 years of being a major public figure my experience tells me that well over 25% of Americans still don't understand that Arnold Schwarzenegger is not and never has been German. \n\nThe simple fact is that there are far to many cultures and ethnicities in the world to have even a cursory knowledge of them all, even those of us that are interested. We need to lump cultures somehow to get any sort of handle on what is out there. Sometimes that lumping is ridiculously broad, as with your examples of "Africans" and "Asians" but we still need to do that. And African is no more ludicrous as a grouping than “Russian”, and Russians are largely white.\n\nAs we become more and more interested in regions and people we narrow down those divsions. So most Americans can separate out Sicilians and Italians generally. Many now can also separate out Hmong and Vietnamese generally, which is a very fine scale split. \n\nBut the parts of the world we have no reasons to be interested in tend be populated in our minds by "Africans" and "Russians", even though those groupings are more or less meaningless.\n\nBut rest assured it has nothing to do with race. Americans are just as almost as ignorant or European cultural differences as Africans.\n\nBut just to make you fell a bit better, my experience has been that most Africans don't draw any real distinction between Americans and Canadians either. The USA and Canada are usually treated the same way Americans treat Austria and Germany. Everyone more or less knows they're separate countries, but the differences in language, culture and so forth are so small that they feel they can be ignored.\n\nLike I said, nothing to do with race.