I didn’t get many comments on my status, but the ones I got gave me a very good idea of what some people think about being racist. From what I see, most people are not racist in the sense that they think that a certain race is superior than the other ones, but more than that, is the idea of stereotyping people. People’s first impression will always be basic and it will always be associated to a general idea or a general experience with certain race. That is not racism.
Globalization and the media has made the new generations more exposed to the world and different cultures. The discrimination of race is an idea that eventually will become obsolete. People still fall on the stereotyping process, but they are more willing to be flexible and not base their assumptions on skin color.
Nobody is or will ever be color blinded, but the more educated the world gets, the more tolerant people will be. The differences and discrimination that will arise will not be about skin color, but the level of education or social class a person has. For example, one person posted on my status: a white person is not the same as a "white trash", a black person is not the same as a "nigger", a latin is not the same as a "vato".
Are the new generations racist or classist?
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I think you raise a good point about the new generation moving from racism to class ism. As a country we certainly haven't moved from racism however, as there are definitely several pockets that are pretty racist. I think racism starts to dissolve with education and increased exposure which doesn't always happened everywhere.
Oh I completely agree. Classism is the new racism. Isn't it interesting that we as a society have a hard time not judging at all? It's like it's embedding in human nature...
Classism is HUGE lately! Is it worse? Better? It's definitely something that can be changed a lot easier than race. Social climbers are living proof. :)
I completely agree. A couple people on my Facebook page posted comments like "I'm not racist, I just don't like stupid people, or people that don't agree with me, or . . . wait!" Basically they were saying that they like or dislike a person based on how they act, not the color of their skin. That can play into your class theory. I don't have a problem with people from the south, but I do have a problem with white trash, trailer park, wife-beater wearing, cigarette smokin' hillibillies! :)
Well said. Class is more of an issue than racism. I believe that some races are affiliated with a certain class, hence racism?
you turned this in a way i never thought of. it's great! i agree-once the level of education rises, society will be more understanding and tolerable to the minorities around them.
i agree with the classist statement. we all know of very educated, higher class blacks and we think the world of them. we know blacks who are straight from africa and they dont act the same as the lower class blacks we find in america. And we know of lower class whites who we are prejudice against based on the way they dress or the type of jobs they have. It relates to Emily Jacobsen's post about how we look at other characteristics of a person to make a judgment of them before we look at the color of their skin.
I agree that people are more stereotypical these days rather than having a superiority complex. And I think it's unfair to have an expectation for people to not think these stereotypes. I mean, come on, mexicans really do eat rice and tacos, asians really do yell loud and intense on their TV shows, and whites can sometimes be white trash. Now, if we like/dislike someone based on that stereotype instead of the individual, that's when we come upon a problem.
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