2007-03-10 05:18:08 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
No I think you are missing thr point one question was asked was which race is more beatiful, who was the first black policeman, another was one was which race commits the most crime. I ust don't understand it. Does it really matter?
2007-03-10 05:48:22 · update #1
America was built on the back of racism. It captured and brought a race of people to this country and used them and their labor to build and prosper. It later freed those people (Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation) only to use them for votes. It took five blacks to create one full vote, while every white was worth one vote alone. President Lincoln needed this boost in voters in order to win the Presidential election. He himself owned slaves.
No one has ever compensated the black race for their enslavement, nor their torture during slavery. Many slave mentality beliefs are still carried on today between both races. While America has become a stew of diverse cultures, religions, races and beliefs, it is still very racist.
Some of this is promoted through the media that portrays so many negative images of people of other cultures and races. It is still understood that this is a white man's world. People of other races are still not found in any kind of balance in middle and upper management mainly because this is a way of continuing racism in a more subtle way. We are comfortable with our own. Therefore we tend to vibrate towards, and choose our own, over those that we perceive as different.
The only way that America will overcome their obsession with race is if we do away with statistics that classify us by race. We need to stop looking at American's race and realize that we are all humans first and American's second. We also need to get to know and understand each other's cultural differences and appreciate the variety in us all.
2007-03-10 07:33:03 · answer #1 · answered by TheWiseOne 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It shouldn't matter, complete equality can never be achieved while people still focus on those things.
It's all around us though, if you fill out a college application, for example, it asks for your race, but not your eye or hair color. I understand its for statistical & scholarship purposes, but if all people are the same than racial differences should be treated as physical differences, because to an extent that is all they are.
I'm not saying all cultures are the same, but the only culture anyone is really a part of is that of the country in which they live. White or Black, if you're an American, that's your culture.
2007-03-10 06:19:28 · answer #2 · answered by Ashley 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
People in the North American and Southern African regions traditionally define cultural identity in terms of race. The closest parallel to this is the Middle-Eastern tradition of defining tribal idenity in terms of religion. Another example might be Eastern-Europe, which for the past two centuries has had an obsession with defining group identity in terms of language.
The real Question is:
Why is everybody on the planet so obsessed with group identity?
Think about it....
Nimadan
2007-03-10 06:02:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I stay in u . s . and easily i think of it somewhat is because of the fact because of the fact we are the sort of diverse u . s . human beings have the want to make particular that their particular race is represented. very virtually each team in u . s . as we talk had to combat to grow to be equivalent and a few are nevertheless battling for equality( ie Latinos and blacks). each physique is purely pleased with who they're and decide on it to be regarded. it is likewise viewed very rude to in basic terms ask somebody what race they're. Like at my college there became into this new woman and we did no longer discover out what race she became into till like 0.5 the year became into over because of the fact no person wished to offend her
2016-12-18 19:28:28 · answer #4 · answered by dorthy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because we have so many different types of people trying their best to live together. The only way that works is for us to try and understand each other.
2007-03-10 05:43:31 · answer #5 · answered by Danagasta 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because ignorant, insecure people are always going to have a group that they feel Superior to, in order to avoid facing their own self-hatred.
BTW, (some) people everywhere are racists, not just in the US.
Good luck.
2007-03-10 05:37:16 · answer #6 · answered by Croa 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because all hell breaks loose every time a pretty white girl dates a black guy.
2007-03-10 08:33:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋