No it does not come down to biology. What you are talking about is APPEARANCE. TOTALLY DIFFERENT from biology which has a science basis. Appearance! You mean appearance! Once I understood that was what you meant I 'got' what you were saying. I just wish you understood that what you are discussing is NOT Biology or science (which are terms that I feel, unlike racism- or hell, any ism, have pretty standard definitions), but completely superficial judgement. Yes, people DO base judgements on appearance! You're correct! They do! But it's not biology!
LMAO! This is comedy!
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Jewish people of Eastern European descent.
It would depend how narrow those categories are divided. And yes I know jews and irish people aren't races, those were examples of stereotypes associated with a group. Don't take things so literally.
I don't disagree that many people are stupid, but that's not my point. It's just the way people categorize racial and ethnic groups.
Yes, that's how you see it, but not everyone. We are not trying to create the perfect society and how people think, just dissect how it is and why people see it that way.
If this doesn't make sense to you, don't worry about. I'm not categorizing the world for you, so relax kiddo. This is just an explanation of what racism is. People look at more than just skin tone, so don't base an argument against science on one example. Not everyone fits into a specific racial group, in fact, one could argue not a single person does because we are so much different down to the core. But the basic examples of traits and characterstics can group a # of people into a group. You can find a # of people that are completely "mixed" but you can still find a bunch of "pure" african-americans, asian, native americans (i hope), caucasians, indians, etc.
Sometime people stereotype an individual into a specific racial group, even if they do not belong their (a dark-skinned european caucasian as you point out) but that doesn't change the fact that he/she will be discriminated against as if he/she were in fact part of the racial group in which the appear to be part of. It does come down to biology, it's what makes us look like we do.
RUgreek
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