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Race is meaningless.
« on: June 11, 2008, 08:43:46 AM »
Entire Article Here: http://psychologytoday.com/articles/index.php?term=19951101-000038&page=1

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The question "What is race?" can be divided into two more limited ones. The answers to both questions have long been known by anthropologists, but seem not to have reached other social or behavioral scientists, let alone the public at large. And both answers differ strikingly from what we Americans think of as race.

The first question is "How can we understand the variation in physical appearance among human beings?" It is interesting to discover that Americans (including researchers, who should know better) view only a part of the variation as "racial," while other equally evident variability is not so viewed.

The second question is "How can we understand the kinds of racial classifications applied to differences in physical appearance among human beings?" Surprisingly, different cultures label these physical differences in different ways. Far from describing biological entities, American racial categories are merely one of numerous, very culture-specific schemes for reducingun-certainty about how people shoUld respond to other people. The fact that Americans believe that Asians blacks, Hispanics, and whites constitute biological entities called races is a matter of cultural interest rather than scientific substance. It tells us something about American culture -- but nothing at all about the human species.

The short answer to the question "What is race?" is: There is no such thing. Race is a myth. And our racial classification scheme is loaded with pure fantasy

Culture, on the other, hand presents a different tale.
« Last Edit: June 11, 2008, 08:48:45 AM by Synchronomyst »
What can you do to end the hunger?
It's no surprise that many will die with the coming shortage of food
When there is no grain to feed the butchered cows
When there is nothing to feed yourselves...
Then you will see that money can't be eaten.

-The Locust

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Re: Race is meaningless.
« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2008, 09:14:03 AM »
That's some deep, yet funny shit. That's a dose of truth.


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Re: Race is meaningless.
« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2008, 10:10:54 AM »
That thing is so true, we normally call it racial profiling. And that is based around culture. I look like the typical "negro" or to be proper a man of african descent. But i have ancestry that leads back to ppl of the caucus(french and spanish), indo ( both east and west, meaning aztec or something of the sort). Man i am human, i soo mixed up even if is a lil pepper in de callaloo more bush dan anything LOL
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Re: Race is meaningless.
« Reply #3 on: June 11, 2008, 11:04:49 AM »
I am a Trini FULLSTOP.

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Re: Race is meaningless.
« Reply #4 on: June 11, 2008, 11:32:36 AM »
I am a Trini FULLSTOP.

Don't you mean HUMAN BEING...Trini is still a label....


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Re: Race is meaningless.
« Reply #5 on: June 11, 2008, 12:53:35 PM »
Who said I was human? XD

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Re: Race is meaningless.
« Reply #6 on: June 11, 2008, 01:38:17 PM »
I am a Trini FULLSTOP.

Don't you mean HUMAN BEING...Trini is still a label....

It's a label but it's a nationality. Which is probably a lot less arbitrary that race happens to be.
What can you do to end the hunger?
It's no surprise that many will die with the coming shortage of food
When there is no grain to feed the butchered cows
When there is nothing to feed yourselves...
Then you will see that money can't be eaten.

-The Locust

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Re: Race is meaningless.
« Reply #7 on: June 11, 2008, 02:45:30 PM »
I am a Trini FULLSTOP.

That's what the Puerto Ricans here say, there are black, white, the typical latin looking ones and even a few that look indian-ish here and there and if you ask them what they are they all say Puerto Rican, they hardly ever pick races, I always admired them for that.  They don't go by there race but by their shared culture, I wish more countries would start thinking like that.


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Re: Race is meaningless.
« Reply #8 on: June 11, 2008, 05:12:01 PM »
I am a Trini FULLSTOP.

Don't you mean HUMAN BEING...Trini is still a label....

It's a label but it's a nationality. Which is probably a lot less arbitrary that race happens to be.


mandalorians are made up of different species not just of variations within the same species and they dont even make a classification between the different species that make up mandalore.

They are freaking awesome.

They can capture a world, take it over and once the capture people then class them selves as mandalorians, species and even race dont make a difference.

They are of mandalore, full stop.

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Re: Race is meaningless.
« Reply #9 on: June 11, 2008, 05:15:44 PM »
WTF @ Crixx thread hijack.... O_O

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Re: Race is meaningless.
« Reply #10 on: June 11, 2008, 06:23:03 PM »
HUMANS SUCK
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Re: Race is meaningless.
« Reply #11 on: June 11, 2008, 08:07:33 PM »
mandalorians have humans in their ranks

like jango and bobba
and all the arc troopers


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Re: Race is meaningless.
« Reply #12 on: June 11, 2008, 08:09:56 PM »
mandalorians SUCK as well

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Re: Race is meaningless.
« Reply #13 on: June 11, 2008, 08:15:25 PM »
lol

but twileks are awessomeeeee!!!

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Re: Race is meaningless.
« Reply #14 on: June 11, 2008, 11:04:22 PM »
What is this thing you call a Basilisk. I shall use it as what the humans call an out house, death shall rain upon your weak race by the hand of a Daxian child. My empire will conquer this solar system and enslave the population.

Daxians RULE



bak to reality

Ent discussions(topics...blah blah blah) on race/religion etc were like forbidden here...or atleast frowned upon??? bah...who cares anyhow

bak to reality V2.0

since u guys spamming....can i ask a quick question before this thread is removed/locked/quarantined....din wanna make a new thread cuz allyuh wudda jus laugh an be like..."ent we talk bout dis already?"


QUESTION...

   I live on an alien planet where I have 3 aliengirl friends who i like. Unfortunately my mind is unlike many others and I wish to bring that number down to one, how do I go about choosing which one to be my eternal girl slave and executing the rest in the least painful manner.

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Re: Race is meaningless.
« Reply #15 on: June 12, 2008, 12:06:24 AM »
use the test from that movie

go pick up de bird

lock your door

go for she, open her do, close the door when she inside

if she open de door for you to enter, she get like real points..

of course in that movie there was an alternate theory
drive into oncoming traffic and if the girl willing to ...... while you doing that
then she get like real points

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Re: Race is meaningless.
« Reply #16 on: June 12, 2008, 07:18:36 AM »
I was exiled from my planet at the age of two for crushing a wandering human being's skull with my hand. Shot across space in an old escape pod I found myself on the planet Daxt where many human shaped beings existed, these creatures were of great strength.Their name...DAXIAN. There I trained for fifteen years, frustrated and annoyed I massacre'd* their race. Well all but one, now I have been running from this individual, a clone...The perfect clone of me, one day I shall defeat him but for now. I must find my home planet and kill them all. Fez Al Ra will be destroyed by the hand of me the exile child, murderer and now DAXIAN prince.
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Re: Race is meaningless.
« Reply #17 on: June 12, 2008, 08:46:12 AM »
This thread is looking more and more like a gold mine for psychiatrists. They could come and shrink you all. *Look at the last few posts and honestly tell me that it ain't warranted.*

You're all fracking nuts. I'm just glad that we Sith don't suffer from such delusions of grandeur.


THIS PLACE RULES!!! LMAO  :banana:
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HEY... Just who the HELL do you think I am?

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Re: Race is meaningless.
« Reply #18 on: June 12, 2008, 08:50:42 AM »


QUESTION...

   I live on an alien planet where I have 3 aliengirl friends who i like. Unfortunately my mind is unlike many others and I wish to bring that number down to one, how do I go about choosing which one to be my eternal girl slave and executing the rest in the least painful manner.



can sumone answer my question....i really dont want to have to kill anyone...too painfully
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Re: Race is meaningless.
« Reply #19 on: June 12, 2008, 09:20:54 AM »


This thread.
What can you do to end the hunger?
It's no surprise that many will die with the coming shortage of food
When there is no grain to feed the butchered cows
When there is nothing to feed yourselves...
Then you will see that money can't be eaten.

-The Locust

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Re: Race is meaningless.
« Reply #19 on: June 12, 2008, 09:20:54 AM »

 


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