Author: MJ (---.coqui.net)
Date: 05-28-08 10:31
Racism def:
The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others
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Now, I could go line by line through your posts...or I could email you personally but oops! No I can't, you don't have your email address listed. Funny, that. But between what you posted here and what you personally sent to me, I do believe the word racism applies. Being an American college kid, I figure you have the ability to reference a dictionary?
And while I'm working on your education outside the classroom, try this one on for size, world traveler.
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Xenophobia is a fear or contempt of those considered to be “foreigners†or “strangersâ€â€”anyone different from oneself. The target may be a group already present within a society, but not accepted as part of that society, or it can often refer to immigrants. Xenophobia is dangerous in that it has the potential to elicit hostile and violent reactions, such as mass expulsion of immigrants, or in the worst case, as we’ve seen in Nazi Germany and again in Darfur, in genocide.
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Does the phrase *hostile and violent reactions* ring a bell, you who would rip off the camp ground, and recommend that action to others because of a 20 dollar fee while maligning the woman running the place? You who considered spreading broken glass around the loud people who made your visit less than you wished it to be? You who berated (and that is a very light word compared to the reality of what you wrote) the appearance of a woman at the beach because she did not conform to your standards? You who advised me (assuming me to be the speedo person at the beach, which I'm also taking to me you think me to be male) to use cocaine or starve myself to death because "in your country" meaning PR, I'm a typically lazy person and the police don't care about the drug situation? And all of the above were, repeatedly referenced as "that Puerto Rican woman" "that Puerto Rican family" (and too big a family in your opinion), "those Puerto Rican kids".
There are no swords drawn here, unless you immediately assume that any disagreement with your perceptions should elicit violence. There is only an intense awareness, coupled with huge disgust, of your boorish and self-righteous written expression of your true feelings.
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