Discrimination?

Question

Answer Honestly Please:

Do you think there really is a comparison between the way we all drive and our ethnicity?

How about what we eat?

Sex partners?

Examples:

- Asians and driving
- Blacks and chicken
- Hispanics and immigration

so forth and so on

Answer 1

Absolutely. And there is really nothing wrong with discrimination. I have a discriminating palate. I do not like dishonest people - I discriminate therefore when I chose friends, choosing not to have dishonest friends. I'm a discriminating customer prefering good customer service.

People do things differently and different cultures value differently resulting in different choices.

Answer 2

ok so 'honestly' i would say yes. I live in an area in California where the majority of the population is asian. On average of the people I see making stupid mistakes and being 'idiots' on the road, the majority area asian. All the car accidents I've seen have been by an Indian or asian person, (we make a distinction btwn the two because there are so many). Yet i don't judge the way people are just by how they drive. in my opinion if shouldn't matter what you eat, i mean just because i don't like...lets say curry and you do, doesnt' mean that you are somehow 'weird or different, we all just have different tastes.

Answer 3

The title should be "stereotypes."

Is there a correlation between stereotypes and truth?

Hard to tell. There may be, but also the phenomenon known as the "Cherry Picking Fallacy" may be at work.

Say, if you know about the stereotype that "All Blacks love watermelon and fried chicken" and you see a Black co-worker eating chicken and watermelon, you're more likely to notice than you'd do if your co-worker were Chinese.

Our brains work like that. So even when a stereotype seems to have basis in reality, I recommend caution--we all are easily influenced.

Answer 4

As far as driving, no I do not believe there is any connection. Driving ability depends on social factors, the laws of one's state, and the amount of emphasis one puts on the safety of one's self and others on the road.

When discussing diet, I believe ethnicity can have an effect on one's food choices, but generally it depends on how heavily one's family emphasizes its particular culture. For example, if one's family is from Iran and eats traditional Iranian meals, then yes, one's diet is influenced. This is not, however, an absolute. Any family from any part of the world can have any sort of diet.

One's choice of sex partners also relies on a variety of factors, such as biology, sex, gender (yes, sex and gender are separate things), one's social environment and social cues, as well as a multitude of other things. Yes, race can have an effect on one's choice of sex partners, but only a small part. If a person has decided that they will only date or have relations with people of a similar race to themselves or will not have relations with people of a different or specific race, that is not necessarily because of any "inherent" quality, but simply because their environment has led them to the conclusion that it is important for them to do so.

All of this is based solely on my own experience, and has no academic merit. This is simply my opinion.

Answer 5

i think that drive experience comes with time. some people take longer than others and some people never get better.

as for food no because i'm mixed and i don't like the black side of my family food.

i don't understand the sex partner part, but i don't think that anyone discriminates toward sex.

Answer 6

Yes, because society still has "norms" and people of that particular race and culture still are somewhat responsible for following them but as we become more of a melting pot here in the USA, I think discrimination is becoming a thing of the past.

Answer 7

I think there is a connection between the way we do things (including driving) and our culture. Remember, there are many cultures, and people from them migrate around the world.

Answer 8

Driving doesn't mater what color some are good and some are bad. As far as what everyone eats I think it is more where your parents are from my parents are southern so fried chicken is good for me, biscuits and gravy to. This question is making me to hungry I gota go eat.

Answer 9

its always has been like this