What is wrong with not liking certain races?

Question

Someone can dis like people who do certain things and not be racist. Mabey it's being prejudice but certain kinds of prejudice are normal and healthy. Lets say I don't like it when people chew with thier mouth open. I am not going to like a lot of people who do that. It's the same when it comes to cultures. I don't like it when people purposely destroy the english, I don't like it when people where thier pants at thier ankles, I don't like it when people are loud and shout stupid things. Most black people (cuz it seems to be the culture of most of them) are this way and I don't like it. I have come to realize that I am pretty prejudice when it comes to black people and puerto ricans. I am not going to try to hide it and tell myself I am not anymore. I went to elementary school as a minority white. All the black kids did stupid things and looking back extremely violent and foul mouthed for the age. .

The puerto ricans were a lot worse and I hated mostly all of them. I was friends with most the white kids. I was friends with a few black ones too but not the puerto ricans. for my middle school and current last year in high school i moved to a 98% white town. At first I liked it a lot more but in middle school I started to hate it. Everyone in my high school is either a prick or goth. I think we have like 5 or 6 black kids from out of town out of like 2,000 students.

I don't think I made it clear in what I have written what I mean. I sort of lost my point in rambling on. My point is that I don't dislike anyone because of how they look, or the color of thier skin, I judge people by how they act and it just seems and I think it is pretty logical to condclude that since black people have the same culture background, most are going to act the same making me not like them. I have a black friend but he acts nothing like most black people. I hate condaliza rice because of her handeling of her job. Nothing to do with her being black, I couldn't care less. I greatly admire carlos santana and I am a huge fan, I don't care that he is spanish. I don't know if I am being clear and getting at what I really mean on here because I really just wanted to get my feelings off my chest after reading an article about race on cnn.

Answer 1

There is good and bad in everyone.

We all need to think that maybe we, too, do things that annoy and disturb ppl.

Give other ppl the benefit of the doubt that you would want for yourself.

At the most you can dislike a culture, not a race. Race does not dictate how you will act and it's also something you can't control.

As an example, Americans do things that are thoughtless and uncuth to other cultures. Are we bad ppl? No, we just come from a different culture.

We need to learn from each other.

I'd agree that for school or work, proper English is best, but in a casual environment I see no problem with ppl using what is essentially their own dialect.

Another bad thing about not liking certain races is that it 'colors' your opinions. Meaning you could see two ppl doing the same thing, and because you dislike one race their actions would annoy you, but for the other race you'd let it slide.

It's kind of like when a parent decides one of their kids is bad and that kid gets blamed for everything and also doesn't get as much praise when they do something good.

Look at the individual, and hope that when ppl look at you they do the same.

Actually, most cultures have good values, and what you are seeing is just the bad side of certain cultures. What little you've seen doesn't necessarily show the 'status quo' of other cultures.

Based on your experiences in school, if you consider yourself to be more enlightened than the other kids you went to school with--you should actually be more sympathetic to minorities. Because although they treated you badly in school, it's probably a safe bet that they get treated that way themselves once they are outside of school.

Answer 2

Where is the question really, I mean you asked a question and then justified it with your own answer. It seems as though you've made up your own mind, so why even post it? Did you need to convince yourself that you were right? The thing is if you want to dislike people based on something as superficial as skin color or how someone wears their pants then that's your business. If you think that the way someone wears their pants is a symbol of their depth than you're pretty shallow. I assume your pants are fitted and you wear them on your ***... and what does that say about you? I mean does that really reflect who you are truly, does that define you.

Absolutely not. I think you're just racist, and you don't like people who physically look different from you, I also think you're justifying this by stereotyping groups of people. Because not all black people are loud, or use bad grammar (what is bad grammar anyways), or wear their clothes that way. Also some white people do the exact same thing. I think that even if blacks and puerto ricans spoke softly, wore their clothes "properly," and spoke perfect English, as some of them do. You would still dislike them because you want to belittle them in an attempt to feel superior and better about yourself.

The thing is everyone of has something that's different than everyone else, it's what makes us special and unique and those differences should be celebrated and not everything should be white washed and labeled as being the right thing to do. People should be allowed to be able to express themselves in the way that they choose, it's their life not yours. That's why you're you, you have your own life to live. Secondly, though we all are different in some way God made us so much more similar to one another then different. We all at the end of the day want to be able to do what we love and express ourselves, we all want to feel safe and secure, and at the end of the day we all want to be happy, accepted, and loved.

So I'm offering acceptance to you regardless of your statement, because somewhere along the road you've learned to fear what's different from you and what you fear you reject. So it's understandable. I do hope you work out these issues in this lifetime and are able to grow from this point and accept yourself fully and love yourself fully, not based on the superficiality of your race, but based on your core. The truth of who you are and how God made you. When you can do this fully for yourself, you will then be able to love and accept others, including the other races that you now despise, regardless of how they appear on the surface, because, like I said we're all the same on the inside. Underneath it all there's a heart and a spirit there. It's all love man.

Answer 3

Before I even read your additional information I could tell that you had some bad experiences with black people and latino people. Therefore you are grouping everybody into the pot. This is a common thinking error when someone has wronged us, but it is nonetheless a thinking error. Just because you have had these experiences does not mean that everyone of these ethnic groups are this way. even if every black person you have ever met has done you wrong you still cannot say that all black people are that way because it is impossible for you to have met all black people. I'm sure there has been some white people who have done you wrong too, but because you are white you are saying to he-- with all white people. So is it fair to say it to the other ethnic groups. You are selling yourself short by believing this way and you will continue to have these issues with theses ethnic groups if you don't change your mind. Be the strong person that you are and say to yourself that you will not put yourself in such a small box and go on with these feelings. Find more positive situations to put yourself in and you will find those positive people of every different ethnic group.
God Bless

Answer 4

Well, this is what's wrong with that.

You are PREJUDGING a person based on what this person looks like. You can't say what "most black people" do because you don't know "most black people" who exist.

You sound incredibly silly how you bunch people into a category and base your opinions on other people before you even meet them.

Yes, there is something wrong with that.

Judge the individual, not the race.

Answer 5

This reminds me of one class a long time ago- the professor was talking about the matrix and how it works. Some imbecile from the back asked 'whyyyy should I know this'. The prof just said: you don't have to, you can remain a blithering idiot.

what do you think?? You are free to hate anybody or dislike anyone- but that does not change the fact that you are a _______.

Answer 6

It seems to me that you have a lot of issues going on in your life and in your brain. Honey you need to let it go before you have a stroke at whatever age. Personally for me.........I just really try hard on a daily basis not to feed into negative feelings. It's stressful and it also keeps you depressed. I like to laugh and have fun. I don't worry about what negativity's that are happening with everyone else on a daily basis. Honey just let it go! You may call it prejudice but I call it hatefulness and just plain being evil! Let it go!

Answer 7

It's not wrong to dislike individuals for what ever reasons you decide (chewing with their mount open, etc). What is wrong is to assume that the whole race or culture is wrong based on your very, very limited experience. It is also wrong to take that assumption and then pay a member of a different race less, or not hire them just because of skin color. It's also wrong to treat them, or any one for that matter, as less a human or less worth to have the same rights as you do.

Answer 8

Why do you assume that everyone of that ethnic group is like that. Have you met everyone in the entire world to know that they are all like that? I do not like people who are racist because they have no sense on diversity. Are you educated because maybe you should take an ethnicity class and learn a little.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

Nothing is wrong about disliking certain races. Its just not right if you are racist to them, meaning you make fun of skin color and facial features. But I'm sure you aren't like that.