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Re: Because race played a factor is it racism?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: B_P</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: sukuna</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: B_P</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Xavier,
I think you are mixing two separate concepts - racism and "bias based on race." It is an all-too-human tendency and identify with and perhaps favor an individual who looks superficially like how we perceive ourselves - that is not racism since it doesn't imply an inherent superiority of one individual over another based on the concept of "race." Racism is manifested when trivial differences in physical attributes such as skin and hair trigger patterns of thought in an observer that have been reinforced by stereotypes that are erroneous in every single context. </div></div>
true. but it is goes beyond just the physical </div></div>
But it is the trivial difference in appearance that are used by individuals to assign "race" which bears no real biological underpinning. Remove the trivial cues used to assign "race" and bias would likely center on belief systems, upbringing, level of education, etc, etc. </div></div>
The trigger is not just appearance even though we react to what we see. There are differences in behaviour which I believe are also a result of our biological differences. I believe that it is out of our make-up that we compose our cultures.
Today I was in a copy shop when the cashier asked out to one of the technician, (a darked skinned indian) to check the machine I should be using. He screamed across the room that it was not working.
She began yelling at him, not to scream on her, who he thinks he is, where did he think he was and on and on.
Mind you she was being friendly in her service to me during the whole time.
So do you think it was the way he looked that triggered this what many would call racist behaviour? In other words, was it the difference in his appearance that caused the trigger?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: B_P</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: sukuna</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: B_P</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Xavier,
I think you are mixing two separate concepts - racism and "bias based on race." It is an all-too-human tendency and identify with and perhaps favor an individual who looks superficially like how we perceive ourselves - that is not racism since it doesn't imply an inherent superiority of one individual over another based on the concept of "race." Racism is manifested when trivial differences in physical attributes such as skin and hair trigger patterns of thought in an observer that have been reinforced by stereotypes that are erroneous in every single context. </div></div>
true. but it is goes beyond just the physical </div></div>
But it is the trivial difference in appearance that are used by individuals to assign "race" which bears no real biological underpinning. Remove the trivial cues used to assign "race" and bias would likely center on belief systems, upbringing, level of education, etc, etc. </div></div>
The trigger is not just appearance even though we react to what we see. There are differences in behaviour which I believe are also a result of our biological differences. I believe that it is out of our make-up that we compose our cultures.
Today I was in a copy shop when the cashier asked out to one of the technician, (a darked skinned indian) to check the machine I should be using. He screamed across the room that it was not working.
She began yelling at him, not to scream on her, who he thinks he is, where did he think he was and on and on.
Mind you she was being friendly in her service to me during the whole time.
So do you think it was the way he looked that triggered this what many would call racist behaviour? In other words, was it the difference in his appearance that caused the trigger?
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