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Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS
Pull one out your ass.
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A very typical, yet childish response. Very ladylike. Troll at another board instead of bothering us.
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I don't know what you mean by the part in bold so I guess our conversation is at an end. If you mean that people are naturally sinners - I certainly agree with you there.
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What I'm trying to say (and it's a hard point to get across I think) is that N. America didn't just suddenly create the current racism. It's been there all along.
An important thing worth noting:
If N. America did indeed "create" the current style of racism as has been claimed, this only stems from the fact that for the first time ever people of different racial backgrounds on a large scale. Perhaps there are countries and periods which can contradict but I can't think of any off the top of my head. Europe has always (and still is mostly) homogenous. The countries with the greatest amount of overt racism (in my opinion, Italy and Spain) are also the countries with some of the highest African immigrant populations.
And as a sad side note, I was traveling in the Northeastern part of the city today and found a shack with four Confederate flags on it. The racists here use the Confederate flag to overtly show racism. It's sad that a beautiful tradition is mangled in this way.
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At the same time I also think that evidence shows our thinking about race has changed over time and varies by place. Maybe "exported" isn't the best word for the move of ideas - perhaps "exchange" would be better. But if you don't agree that new ideas appear and are exchanged among peoples, again, we have nothing more to discuss really.
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Perhaps it's semantics, but I agree that "beliefs" are exchanged and exported through literary and through force, not ideas.