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Originally Posted by naraht
I'm interested in people's opinion on the level of racism shown by the following situations...
1) "I feel that skin tone must be taken into account in determining how clothes look. For example: Light Blues look best on Fair skinned Caucasians, Purplish Grays look best on African Americans and Emeralds look best on East Asians".
1a)"... And I take that into account when hiring Models for my company's fashion shoots"
...Completely different scenario.
2) Two cashiers at the local US Grocery Store are talking to each other in Spanish, and you are in one of their lines. After your groceries are finished, you say "Gracias" instead of "Thank You".
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My initial reaction to both of these situations is this:
1. If this is honestly the way they are choosing models, I don't see how that is racist. I could see this same thing happening for large models (vertical vs. horizontal stripes), makeup for particular eye colors to make them pop, etc. This is not an issue exclusive to race.
2. I don't think this is racist as you HEARD them speaking in Spanish. Had they not heard them speaking in Spanish and were basing on appearances, that is a different question.
Overall, I think racism is the action form of racial prejudices. You can have no malicious intent and still have automatic negative race related thoughts. My $0.02.
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