Are there any minorities on F-chat

Testacojones · May 30, 2008

DaudiW. said: ↑

You are talking about nations which have been around 5 times longer than the US itself.. Places like England have a royal family and anyone out of the blood line (african, italian, german even english) have very low chances of taking power.
Spain is generally misunderstood when it comes to the black race - many africans who go to spain are lower class citizens, and since spain only, mainly consists of Iberian people (Portugues, Spanish, Basque) they take what they see and run. Moroccans are more disliked in Spain than africans, just because of what they bring to the country. Their racism is fuel by factual info atleast, but the racism which occurs in the US is mostly based on plain ignorance.. In the US i have found that when someone is speaking of a minority, another may automatically think black, then latino (in that order.) Asians are quite the minority as well, but are hardly regarded... In London for example, people hardly use the term 'minority' to describe someone. If you are english you are english, if you are italian you are italian, if you are german you are german, etc - but "white" does not really exist as a term, and likewise with black. European racism basically consists of who you are and where you are from. Its not as simplistic as the American racism which ends at the color of skin or voice accent. There are english people who dislike germans more than "minorities" for example. Or a better example - Irish people disliking English people (for obvious political reasons) in the same respect an Irish person will welcome any race.

Ignorance is ignorance.. Less ignorance is still ignorance..
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That's why in Spain you have lots of skinheads, but it depends on the social level just like here.

d0nfry · May 30, 2008

climb said: ↑

Kinda like Baseball having a 'World Series' when we haven't played teams from another country.
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The best players from around the world come to the U.S.A. to play in this league, so why bother playing teams from other countries, we already have their best players!

BigTex · May 30, 2008

DaudiW. said: ↑

You are talking about nations which have been around 5 times longer than the US itself.. Places like England have a royal family and anyone out of the blood line (african, italian, german even english) have very low chances of taking power.
Spain is generally misunderstood when it comes to the black race - many africans who go to spain are lower class citizens, and since spain only, mainly consists of Iberian people (Portugues, Spanish, Basque) they take what they see and run. Moroccans are more disliked in Spain than africans, just because of what they bring to the country. Their racism is fuel by factual info atleast, but the racism which occurs in the US is mostly based on plain ignorance.. In the US i have found that when someone is speaking of a minority, another may automatically think black, then latino (in that order.) Asians are quite the minority as well, but are hardly regarded... In London for example, people hardly use the term 'minority' to describe someone. If you are english you are english, if you are italian you are italian, if you are german you are german, etc - but "white" does not really exist as a term, and likewise with black. European racism basically consists of who you are and where you are from. Its not as simplistic as the American racism which ends at the color of skin or voice accent. There are english people who dislike germans more than "minorities" for example. Or a better example - Irish people disliking English people (for obvious political reasons) in the same respect an Irish person will welcome any race.

Ignorance is ignorance.. Less ignorance is still ignorance..
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Post of the thread right here, although I like wax's recap too, lot's of folks 'visiting' us here, it appears.....lurkers mostly..LOL!

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