If your friends all have the same skin color as you do, and you were suddenly to lose your sight -- would you ask strangers what their skin color was before beginning a friendship or other relationship?
If I told you that I was white, would that change the way you answer this question?
2006-06-22 02:42:44 · 16 answers · asked by mother_jazz 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Thank you, everyone, I'm enjoying this discussion !
Copromethias -- read Trudi B's answer -- she gets it.
My avatar is of a woman of color. That doesn't mean that's what I am. But I recognize that it could influence the answers, so I posted the additional "what if". I wasn't pitching any race card, just acknowledging that people usually do notice (and react to) a person's race.
BTW -- it was a legimate addendum, since that's NOT a picture of how I look (for one thing, I'm 45). Does THAT change anyone's answer?
2006-06-22 03:34:38 · update #1
Shame on some of you all for being rude.. keep it fun..she posted a good thoughtfull question ..
Probably wouldnt be dead.. As blind people have more accute sesory to make up for the handicap...
Differances are always gonna be a part of life sadly.. and people are always gonna raise their kids to be narrow minded ... I dont feel Im racist but I guess I do make sterotypes ..
2006-06-22 02:49:59 · answer #1 · answered by trudie_barraza 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well. Sadly, I'm sure human nature would come up with SOMETHING. You know how it goes, "birds of a feather flock together". we're born that way. I suppose it would be along the lines of "you smell funny... get lost." or "you sure do have a weird accent... [insert bad jibe]." Although it would seem hard to maintain this inconceivably ridiculous idea, remember: it's INCONCEIVABLE; we cannot be sure of how we would react in these 'what if' situations. So. Racism wouldn't be dead, just in a different form, a form that is hopefully easier to shake off, i.e. sight is pretty much a dominant sense (BUT if we all went blind, who knows?).
Well. I would answer no to your questions. Since I'm a Chinese teenager living in a multiracial society. Where I come from, it's positive social conditioning carried out by a pragmatic government.
2006-06-22 03:02:01 · answer #2 · answered by milleile 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No we'd simply find something other to hate, like accents, or smells. look the sad truth is that we are born knowing hatred. we catorgize our selves in our little groups of those we can supposedly trust and everyone outside of our group are those we hate. though we may not have any good reason we start to blame all that is wrong with the world on those groups. the group don't have to be seperated by color of skin, they can be sperated in any way. like i said its sad but its the way us humans operate.
2006-06-22 02:54:29 · answer #3 · answered by Jimmy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. I would judge people from the pitch of their voices LOL
You know it’s not only skin; it’s about being different. Since our eyes are the most important data-collector, our first impressions come from sight. If we didn’t have that, we would creta eraces according to the touch or smell or whatever.
2006-06-22 02:46:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
AWESOME question. I wish we were all color blind when it came to skin color. No white, no varying shades of brown. I just wish that we couldn't see color variance in humans. Everything else we could see. Then what would we have to fight about?
2006-06-22 02:49:50 · answer #5 · answered by The Y!ABut 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People put way too much emphasis on stuff like that. I don't decide my friends or dates on the basis of race now, so I doubt I would if I was blind.
2006-06-22 02:48:35 · answer #6 · answered by jerrri 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No I would not ask thier skin color. That has nothing to do with who they are inside, which is all that matters. No it would not change my answer if you told me you were white. I am Native American Cherokee...does that change anything with you?
2006-06-22 02:48:52 · answer #7 · answered by wolfribbon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Racism won't die until we breed it out. Stupidity and ignorance are held very closely to a lot of hearts, of a lot of colors.
2006-06-22 03:14:58 · answer #8 · answered by copromethias 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would end racism based on color, but people will just start discriminating based on peoples accents and where their from.
2006-06-22 02:53:50 · answer #9 · answered by evillyn 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's a good (and amusing) question. But now I wonder if you can smell what a person has eaten (i.e. curry, jambalaya) and determine from there what race they are--although I imagine it can be quite inaccurate.
2006-06-22 02:47:10 · answer #10 · answered by psykhaotic 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋