Am I racist?

[nightmare3983]

With a very thick spanish accent and extremely broken English? Yeah, you're probably right.

It could be that his parents are from Mexico but he was born here and simply grew up speaking Spanish.

 

[Beer]

It could be that his parents are from Mexico but he was born here and simply grew up speaking Spanish.

EXTREMELY unlikely, unless he didn't go to school or have English speaking friends or watch English television or listen to English music. So I guess its possible, but thats about as close to impossible as it gets.

 

[b_line]

That is incredibly vague and totally incapable of describing anything. This is "hard science," as you put it. Have to be more specific.

A population is defined, in biology, as a group of individuals of the same species living in close-enough proximity that any member of the group can potentially mate with any other member. In modern human terms, a "population" is essentially the entire world.

"Distinct in some way" describes every single human in existence, so every human is his/her own race? And by "distinct," do you only mean phenotype? Or is the entire genotype? As Dalamon mentioned, the phenotype (the part of the genome that determines physical characteristics that one can "see") makes up a small percentage of the actual genetic code.

There isn't enough genetic diversity comparatively across humans of today to be able to classify into race. The diversity is spread too generally through the entire human population. Trends in a population isn't enough to classify into race. And if you specify even further to where trends become actualities, which is nearly impossible now because of the world wide nature of modern humans breeding pool, then you'd have millions of "races," which at that point would be useless anyway.

Ok, sounds good. When someone tells me they are black or asian or otherwise different than I am, I will go ahead and tell them they are not, and that they are exactly the same as me, because Darkwing Duck told me that is the case. Apparently you know enough about every single human on earth to tell me that there are no heritable traits that make anyone else distinct from any other person.

 

[b_line]

If you have been around people who speak spanish, you can pretty much tell when they are from Mexico, or at least have a mexican accent. I don't think it is too much of a stretch to say that a person residing in the American Southwest who speaks spanish is probably Mexican. It is very similar to saying that a person living in New York/New Jersey who speaks with an Italian accent is probably from Italy.

 

[Jazz Insider]

EXTREMELY unlikely, unless he didn't go to school or have English speaking friends or watch English television or listen to English music. So I guess its possible, but thats about as close to impossible as it gets.

i have a friend who is in his 20s and has a think spanish accent. born in the states, and spanish was his 1st language because thats what they speak in the home. he was homeschooled, and learned english but still retained the accent. i dont think he watching any english TV, cept my mr. bean, but his fav tv shows are all american--like breakin bad and game of thongs. there are lots of people like this where i live. u racialist bro. admit it.

 

[Jamezz]

Viva España copón!

 

[Jazz Insider]

If you have been around people who speak spanish, you can pretty much tell when they are from Mexico, or at least have a mexican accent. I don't think it is too much of a stretch to say that a person residing in the American Southwest who speaks spanish is probably Mexican. It is very similar to saying that a person living in New York/New Jersey who speaks with an Italian accent is probably from Italy.

most of the people ive met who speak spanish are american doe

 

[b_line]

most of the people ive met who speak spanish are american doe

Cool story, do you know if they are Central American?

 

[Jazz Insider]

Cool story, do you know if they are Central American?

some of them are, but most of them are american. i like da central american moes da best tbh. prolly cuz im a racialist, dont care.

 

[Jamezz]

Then there are the Spanish like me who speak perfect Spanish but are completely caucasian (see the Gasol bros. or Calderon) so not that I care but I find it funny when some people say Spanish when they're talking about Mexican people. It'd be like calling all the US citizens English because that's the language we speak here...

 

[Jazz Insider]

Then there are the Spanish like me who speak perfect Spanish but are completely caucasian (see the Gasol bros. or Calderon) so not that I care but I find it funny when some people say Spanish when they're talking about Mexican people. It'd be like calling all the US citizens English because that's the language we speak here...

dats what u get from racialists bro

 

[Jamezz]

It's all a matter of minding about the individual. I don't take offense when people criticize this part of Spanish 'culture':

But it's not who I am and it certainly isn't what many Spanish people are. It's actually becoming more unpopular with every new generation. Will eventually disappear imo, as well as the Spanish royalty, or at least I hope.