DBCooper
7th August 2010, 09:58 PM
Am I racist?
Is Ken Griffey jr racist? look where he lives,or for that matter Obama,afterall he lives in the WHITEHOUSE currently.
This debate about race or racism is old and for that matter isnt solely about race,never was.
Its economics imo,one look at any street USA with the letters MLK your gonna avoid that like the plague whether your black or white,its just not a good investment to buy there or send your kids to school.
Thus comes the real part of this debate in a very matter of fact way,CULTURE the definitio of culture is as follows.
Culture (from the Latin cultura stemming from colere, meaning "to cultivate")[1] is a term that has various meanings. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions.[2] However, the word "culture" is most commonly used in three basic senses:
Excellence of taste in the fine arts and humanities, also known as high culture
An integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for symbolic thought and social learning
The set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution, organization or group
When the concept first emerged in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe, it connoted a process of cultivation or improvement, as in agriculture or horticulture. In the nineteenth century, it came to refer first to the betterment or refinement of the individual, especially through education, and then to the fulfillment of national aspirations or ideals. In the mid-nineteenth century, some scientists used the term "culture" to refer to a universal human capacity. For the German nonpositivist sociologist, Georg Simmel, culture referred to "the cultivation of individuals through the agency of external forms which have been objectified in the course of history".[3]
In the twentieth century, "culture" emerged as a concept central to anthropology, encompassing all human phenomena that are not purely results of human genetics. Specifically, the term "culture" in American anthropology had two meanings: (1) the evolved human capacity to classify and represent experiences with symbols, and to act imaginatively and creatively; and (2) the distinct ways that people living in different parts of the world classified and represented their experiences, and acted creatively. Following World War II, the term became important, albeit with different meanings, in other disciplines such as cultural studies, organizational psychology and management studies.[citation needed]
So with that aside one can or should come to a conclusion that it is not only genetic but also self presevation of ones family unit whther they be black or white within a multi cultural society.
Id like present some more food for thought on this.
For instance.
CNN Study Shows That Children Are Racist
Are children color blind in America? CNN has come to the conclusion that a large percentage of them are!
CNN ran a pilot last night called “Black or White: Kids On Race†where they evaluated both white and black children on how they reacted to a color chart of cartoon kids:
please view the link with video,,http://theurbandaily.com/gossip-news/shamika-sanders/cnn-study-shows-that-children-are-racist/
Now one would say surely those children were taught by their parents to be racist?
NO
Fact is,is that no matter what race you are you identify with your race more so,and children seeing their own race first will do the same,yah a duh moment.
Study after study has showen however that whites in a minority situation become self destructive (Dont believe me look it up) well guess what flip that and so can be said with blacks "Hey" but they didnt do that study did they,they wouldnt say blacks in general are better off around more blacks,hmm why is that?
Polotics.
Its easy to pit one tribe against another and use the slight of hand or for that matter the public coffers to enrich or grab power,as many here know or are witnessing.
Racism or the word racism is like anything else with that evil ISM,maybe people should complain more about ism's than eachother?
I dunno,PS Archie Bunker.
Is Ken Griffey jr racist? look where he lives,or for that matter Obama,afterall he lives in the WHITEHOUSE currently.
This debate about race or racism is old and for that matter isnt solely about race,never was.
Its economics imo,one look at any street USA with the letters MLK your gonna avoid that like the plague whether your black or white,its just not a good investment to buy there or send your kids to school.
Thus comes the real part of this debate in a very matter of fact way,CULTURE the definitio of culture is as follows.
Culture (from the Latin cultura stemming from colere, meaning "to cultivate")[1] is a term that has various meanings. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions.[2] However, the word "culture" is most commonly used in three basic senses:
Excellence of taste in the fine arts and humanities, also known as high culture
An integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for symbolic thought and social learning
The set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution, organization or group
When the concept first emerged in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe, it connoted a process of cultivation or improvement, as in agriculture or horticulture. In the nineteenth century, it came to refer first to the betterment or refinement of the individual, especially through education, and then to the fulfillment of national aspirations or ideals. In the mid-nineteenth century, some scientists used the term "culture" to refer to a universal human capacity. For the German nonpositivist sociologist, Georg Simmel, culture referred to "the cultivation of individuals through the agency of external forms which have been objectified in the course of history".[3]
In the twentieth century, "culture" emerged as a concept central to anthropology, encompassing all human phenomena that are not purely results of human genetics. Specifically, the term "culture" in American anthropology had two meanings: (1) the evolved human capacity to classify and represent experiences with symbols, and to act imaginatively and creatively; and (2) the distinct ways that people living in different parts of the world classified and represented their experiences, and acted creatively. Following World War II, the term became important, albeit with different meanings, in other disciplines such as cultural studies, organizational psychology and management studies.[citation needed]
So with that aside one can or should come to a conclusion that it is not only genetic but also self presevation of ones family unit whther they be black or white within a multi cultural society.
Id like present some more food for thought on this.
For instance.
CNN Study Shows That Children Are Racist
Are children color blind in America? CNN has come to the conclusion that a large percentage of them are!
CNN ran a pilot last night called “Black or White: Kids On Race†where they evaluated both white and black children on how they reacted to a color chart of cartoon kids:
please view the link with video,,http://theurbandaily.com/gossip-news/shamika-sanders/cnn-study-shows-that-children-are-racist/
Now one would say surely those children were taught by their parents to be racist?
NO
Fact is,is that no matter what race you are you identify with your race more so,and children seeing their own race first will do the same,yah a duh moment.
Study after study has showen however that whites in a minority situation become self destructive (Dont believe me look it up) well guess what flip that and so can be said with blacks "Hey" but they didnt do that study did they,they wouldnt say blacks in general are better off around more blacks,hmm why is that?
Polotics.
Its easy to pit one tribe against another and use the slight of hand or for that matter the public coffers to enrich or grab power,as many here know or are witnessing.
Racism or the word racism is like anything else with that evil ISM,maybe people should complain more about ism's than eachother?
I dunno,PS Archie Bunker.