So every western country you have visited has a barely-visible social construct of unwitting bigotry and discrimination against the minority groups in that country?
I knowing one?Not so unwitting.
I knowing one?
Where the **** is this thing?
I apparently can't see it from where I'm viewing things.
I have also heard individuals express bigoted views, and even talk about decisions made based on such (discrimination) but I never considered it part of some overall societal construct.Some friends were shocked when I told them I had heard that brown eyed people should get out of Sweden. I told them that if they had blue eyes they'd have heard the same.
While not the average attitude, it was among the most overt I've heard strangers express racism.
I have also heard individuals express bigoted views, and even talk about decisions made based on such (discrimination) but I never considered it part of some overall societal construct.
So it's more of a lingering remnant than an ongoing thing?A construct we are working to tear down, against all ignorance.
So it's more of a lingering remnant than an ongoing thing?
Must be why it never struck me as a social construct thing...I only saw remaining fragments..It's more perpetuated than created. Not many go for that crap these days, compared to just a couple generations ago. Pockets of ignorance that still ooze into the everyday life of minorities, but no longer a growing tumor threatening to overtake mankind.
Must be why it never struck me as a social construct thing...I only saw remaining fragments..
Those were quotes, in case you didn't notice, from the Department of Labor and from one the actual US Codes (Law) governing Affirmative Action.
Not necessarily white, that's just US context. In order to perpetuate racism, as opposed to bigotry, one must be of the majority power (or a minority oppressing another minority). Racism against the majority is impossible due to the social factors of this social construct.
rac·ism /ˈrāˌsizəm/ noun: racismSo far as I was aware, racism is just race-specific bigotry.
While AA programs are racially biased, they are not racist because they do not *assume that one race is superior to the rest.
Once again, those "racially biased programs of AA" unjustly demand accountability and sacrifice of totally innocent people who have absolutely nothing to do with the current I]condition[/I] of Black America_
Actually, there was not and what you said is factual when taken in the context of it's wording_Was there something I said that indicated otherwise?
Not necessarily white, that's just US context. In order to perpetuate racism, as opposed to bigotry, one must be of the majority power (or a minority oppressing another minority). Racism against the majority is impossible due to the social factors of this social construct.
Horizontal racism: The result of people of targeted racial groups believing, acting on, or
enforcing the dominant (White) system of racial discrimination and oppression. Horizontal
racism can occur between members of the same racial group (an Asian person telling another
Asian wearing a sari to “dress like an American”; a Latino believing that the most competent
administrators or leaders are white, Native Americans feeling that they cannot be as intelligent as
Whites, Asians believing that racism is the result of People of Color not being to raise themselves
“by their own bootstraps.”[/I]
That's key to each part of the definition.
Not necessarily white, that's just US context. In order to perpetuate racism, as opposed to bigotry, one must be of the majority power (or a minority oppressing another minority). Racism against the majority is impossible due to the social factors of this social construct.
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