financeguy
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When you prefer to stick with your 'own type' than you are in fact racist or at least guilty of some form of discrimination.
That's not normal or natural.
You jest, surely.
When you prefer to stick with your 'own type' than you are in fact racist or at least guilty of some form of discrimination.
That's not normal or natural.
I voted UKIP, I said so on the first page.
You jest, surely.
Why not BNP? UKIP and other conservatives are too soft with immigration policy, according to you, aren't they?
If you only want to stick to your 'own kind', only hiring your 'own kind' and if you don't want to have anything to do with the 'other kind', then that's a form of discrimination.
Well...I wonder what you voted. The BNP or another party?
What do you think of the racism involved or do you not care at all?
What do you think of the fact that Nick Griffin is an ex neo nazi?
And who is saying this? I certainly didn't.
Is this racist? Or a normal and natural tendency to prefer one's own 'type'?
You jest, surely. Not me.
This piece of text is dated on 06-12-2009, 06:03 AM exactly:
It is true that you tend to go and hang out with people of similar interest, that's a natural thing to do, but rejecting people based on ethnicity and Arab name, that's another thing!
You seem flabbergasted at my answer above. I'm not saying that you are a racist/ guilty of discrimination here, that woud be outrageous! I thought you wanted a discussion/ explanation.
(Genetic) subconscious racism is the buzz word i think, flat mate was talking about it around Christmas time. There has been plenty of research into it and in someway or another we are all guilty of it without even knowing it.
^ I know, financeguy, but finding your 'mates' with common interest, political ideas, youth culture is something else than turning people down based on race, name, religion etc. Or the fact that there are people who don't want to have anything to do with people of other origin.
That's racism.
I'm not talking about this 'subconscious racism', but on people at Dutch companies who deliberately don't want to hire people with Moroccan names, because they don't want to have anything to do with them. They want to be as far away from them as possible. This is a step further than the 'subconscious racism' you mentioned.
Yes, the fact that people of the same ethnicity live amongst their own group is common in most European cities. Some prefer to, but some (local) governments built whole areas especially for immigrants, like in Paris for example.
It would be crazy to call these people racist because they live amongst their own ethnic group. If it's subconscious, I think you can hardly call it racism at all! It doesn't mean that all of them automatically reject people of other ethnicity.
I think the genetic subconscious racism theory is too far fetched.