Racism or characteristics?

Question

Is the statement "Brazilians are good at football" just as racist as the statement "Black people commit more crime"?

How about "Black people have great rythm and know how to party"?

"The English have bad teeth" or "Muslims are intolerant of other religions"?

Racial stereotypes are based on outside observations of other races which are impossible to ignore. After all, Brazil have won 6 world cups and swedish women ARE hot. By holding such expectations of races on the basis of experience am I a racist?

Or a realist?

Should one treat all people the same and not hold prejudices based on experience?

Answer 1

You are simply molded by your experiences.
Everybody is.
The goal is to rise above such.

Answer 2

There's a difference between a prejudice and an assumption based off of experience.

For example, if every green person you ever knew was a jerk, you would not be unjustified in expecting a new green person you'd never met before to be a jerk too. It's only prejudice if you say, "All green people are jerks."

Saying Brazilians are good at football is just as racist as saying black people commit more crime. But since it's 'positive' racism nobody will care.

Maybe this makes me a racist, but if I see a black person, I will assume he has either what I would call a weird name (like LaKeenan or something) or one of a few other names, like Leroy. Okay, turns out this black dude's named Michael. Okay. Whatever.

What you say about Swedish women would only be a prejudice if you didn't realize that there's an exception to every rule.

Answer 3

Personally, I don't think Swedish women are HOT, necessarily. Hispanic women look better. EGAD! I just stereotyped! Now...what i've just said is pretty much where i'm getting at. It's your own personal observation based on your own values, outlook and tastes. And racist is believing that one race is superior. So, those expectations wouldn't necessarily fit that definition. Anyhow, whenever someone says something negative like A commits more crimes than B, people are going to get offended just as if you say A men have smaller penises than B men.

In a nutshell, it's pretty impossible to treat everyone the same. we've all developed our own prejudices based on race, weight, sex, religion, ect. A lot of people think all fat people are lazy gluttons and all Muslims are terrorists. If we can just go more on actions and less of physical attributes or religous affiliations, we'll be better people for it.

Answer 4

Good question. You deserve a star! I am black and we do love chicken, and we can party harty. But I'm also white and we can't really dance. Plus, I'm Indian and we love to stomp. Jut kidding. Anyways with be being multi-racial, I'm always experiencing a stereotype of some sort. It is being realistic. You are right. However, our people do not have to become a statistics. It's up to Camilla, Jose, Kamitria, And Shawna not to make themselves that stereotype. They say all multi-racial girls are turned out. Not true. But we do try things more since we kick it with everyone on the same level (at least I do, and others I know) So, therefore to answer your question; realist. And here is your star.

Answer 5

Out of the statements you made in your question, the one about black people committing more crime would be the only one based on fact (if it's true or not, I'm not sure). Even then, you can make statements like that and skew the facts to prove your point. Are you basing it on the percentage of blacks who've been convicted of a crime? Are you basing it on prison populations? I'd say all of the other statements are based on personal opinion and in general highly prejudicial. Any time you make a generalization about someone based on age, sex, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, etc.,.. that's prejudice.

Answer 6

Some would say that's racist, others would say it is just stereotyping, because all swedish women may not be pretty. I know all blacks aren't prone to crime (I'm not so now you can say you've met one on yahoo! answers), there are some blacks who aren't natural when it comes to rhythm - I've seen this with my own eyes. These aren't being realistic. These are generalizations and generalizations never equal realism, it's more like just ideal situations, something someone else wants to believe based off of one experience - be it personal or something they saw on some form of media.

Answer 7

I think it is somewhat natural to segregate yourself in like groups. When you do this you know that you will be around people that have similar culture to you. There is not a problem if you want to be around people like yourself, but when you make judgments, often negative opinions, about a person just because the look a certain way, that is racist. It is also racist when you think your group is superior to others. On the other hand, in America many cultural things are not based on race, but on socioeconomic status and you will find people of different races in the same culture group. I think of culture is a broad word. It can cover nationality or race, religion, education, wealth, even entertainment habits.

Answer 8

Saying tha brazilians are good at football, swedish babes are hot, black people have ryth is not racism, being racist would be Brazilians only know how to play football and are bad in everything else, or black people commit more crime and latinos as well, swedish people are extremely liberal in sex on a bad way or things like that.

Answer 9

One thing for sure here that racism and narrow-mindedness are everywhere you go in this planet. You won't escape bigotry at all no matter where you go....

Answer 10

realist, all of this political correctness needs to stop!