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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (563565)4/28/2010 4:09:19 PM
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"Racism seems to be almost instinctive......at least when you're white. I deal with my own racism nearly every day."

It is instinctive to notice differences, to compare and to contrast, to analyse and synthesize information that is acquired in order to make sense out of circumstance. That is what nature gave you as a dimension of your intelligence.

Racism, however, involves a level of animosity against a 'different' race of people based on race alone and usually includes the notion of inherent superior/inferior associations wrt race.

If you suffer from that condition, you don't have my sympathy. It is as personal an issue as there ever was. Certainly, societal code and cultural mores have condemned the attitude in word and in practice for some time. Mixed marriages are as common as not and it is considered wrong to raise an eyebrow over it these days.

Racism is usually a response to social issues where accommodations for tolerance and peaceful coexistence are inadequate, or where injustice wrt race of some sort is an accepted cultural norm. It begins with a view of partiality, which encourages resentment and grows to a festering fear and loathing.

In America the issue has been continually addressed and tweeked in the attempt to create just conditions with regard to race. From time to time, conditions change as our circumstance develop and the issue needs to be revisited. Our society is dynamic and we need to be dynamic wrt social issues to maintain just conditions.
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