If you have pride in your sports; but you support a team and slag other teams; and you have pride in your country etc. etc.; is it wrong to be proud of your race? And why?
2006-10-16 06:15:55 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
It's not wrong it's just stupid because nothing uniformly ties people of one race together. What do you have in common with a white Bosnian?
2006-10-16 06:16:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why not "IF" your "Race" has something to be proud of...other than i.e. :
76% Illegitimacy rate? Highest Incarceration rate? Highest percentage of Drop-Outs, Drug Addiction, and Felon Convictions, Lowest University level degrees earned per-capita, and same Race Murder and last but not least, accepting responsibility for ones own actions and the consequences thereof as a Race, instead of whining and blaming another Race for it's shortcomings?
Pride comes from INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT not how much one can get away with or whine and making excuses as to why all the above exists in one or another ethnic group!
Read Juan Williams book "Enough" says it All !!
2006-10-16 06:28:21 · answer #2 · answered by B'klyn Barracuda 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I see where you're going with this; however, if you look at your examples, you will see a major difference between race and sports/patriotism/etc. Race is something you can neither choose nor change and is not seperate and apart from you. (ps: race is different from nationality.) Sports/country/etc are all things that you choose, that you can change, and are outside of yourself.
> Is it OK for me to be proud of having red hair and green eyes? Is it OK for me to be among that smaller percentage of people who have red hair and green eyes?
> I believe that it is plenty OK. I also believe it is plenty OK to be proud of my race. . . . . . as long as I do not elevate my race above the rest of the human race, it's OK.
> (another ps: casey makes a thought-provoking point, but I do not agree that pride = implied superiority.)
2006-10-16 06:23:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's ok to have pride in your race, but many sporting events feature teams with many diverse races. What is race after all. I think it becomes racist when pride in your "race" turns into disdain of other peoples' races.
2006-10-16 06:18:42 · answer #4 · answered by Mike Honcho 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope...racism requires a negative action against a race. Pride in a race doesn't imply negativity toward another
2006-10-16 06:19:21 · answer #5 · answered by suppajam 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes its racist. You can do that stuff on a team because you can change and influence your team...you can even switch teams. You cant change your race....you can't really even influence it much. So saying that you are "proud" of your race is implicitly stating its superiority. Thats not good.
2006-10-16 06:20:45 · answer #6 · answered by Casey 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is definetly not wrong to be proud of your race, im italian and i love it, it becomes wrong when instead of loving who you are and accepting peoples difference you are trying to insult what other peoples races are.. to love who you are, you do not need to put everyone else down, that shows more of an insecurity. If this world was full of people who are exaclty alike, it would be very boring.
2006-10-16 06:20:39 · answer #7 · answered by bklynmka 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think its wrong to be proud of your race and who you are but when it is too extreme, it can be called supremacy and this will definitely rub other races and nationalities the wrong way.
2006-10-16 06:18:22 · answer #8 · answered by blessedbytheluvofjah 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course you should be proud of your race but some exploit it only to cause problems.
2006-10-16 06:18:17 · answer #9 · answered by AL 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is good to support your race and be proud....it's bad when people get hurt bcuz of it
2006-10-16 06:17:44 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋