IS THIS RACIST?

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  • lauren3101
    lauren3101 Posts: 1,853 Member

    I find the word racist offensive and I believe we will never end racism until we stop talking about it. Eliminate checking off your ethnicity when you fill out forms. We are all the same. Dealing with all the same problems. Start looking out for others. Stop singling people out based on their differences.

    Reminds me of this:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2d2SzRZvsQ

    And I completely agree, by the way.
  • IwearBatmanUndies
    IwearBatmanUndies Posts: 324
    I suggested that genetically, many Asians are naturally smaller framed, and that maybe they are better at metabolising the diet because through time they have become accustomed to it. This already had several people in the chat crying 'racist'.

    My friend you know what you are talking about. Its genetic pre-disposition. For example, given that samoans, hawaiins, and native eskimo are related ..swap their diets around..give eskimo population high carb, high fructose, and lean fish,,hey'd die not too mention that they might develop other sicknesses. Im looking for the link but I might have something to coroborate this,.
  • IwearBatmanUndies
    IwearBatmanUndies Posts: 324
    AND THE TERM YOU Are DESCRIBING IS, BIOCOMPATIBILTY
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK9Hy_FFmxY

    Paul chek. Genius.
  • msf74
    msf74 Posts: 3,498 Member
    No, but it may very well be wacist...
  • aliencheesecake
    aliencheesecake Posts: 569 Member
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    I don't think it's racist.

    Ha! Nice! Yeah, I think so many people get their shorts in a knot over anything these days... Find an article or something with scientific evidence...Maybe that wills shut up the crybabies.
  • BekaBooluvsu
    BekaBooluvsu Posts: 470 Member
    Science is not racism....

    You gave a logical answer and the people you were chatting with were not logical they were emotional. Emotions make you stupid, hence why they threw out the race card.
  • gurse
    gurse Posts: 9
    Personally I don't think it was racist But I am not Asian. You were just making an observation though. I'm also laughing at some of these comments by white people. I don't have anything against white people but I think they have no say in whether or not something is racist if it doesn't have to do with their own race. I am not saying all white people are racist but since white is the dominant race i don't really think they know when they're being racist or know what it's like to be on the receiving end.
  • Beckscherie44
    Beckscherie44 Posts: 7
    Personally I don't think it was racist But I am not Asian. You were just making an observation though. I'm also laughing at some of these comments by white people. I don't have anything against white people but I think they have no say in whether or not something is racist if it doesn't have to do with their own race. I am not saying all white people are racist but since white is the dominant race i don't really think they know when they're being racist or know what it's like to be on the receiving end.

    Sorry, what!? White is the dominant race, says who!? I'm white and I definitely know what it's like to be on the receiving end of racism - I'm Australian and I've had aboriginals call me white ****, white *****, every name under the sun. One even threw a glass bottle at my head when I was just crossing the street. Pardon the pun but, racism is just not so black and white these days.
  • nomeejerome
    nomeejerome Posts: 2,616 Member
    Personally I don't think it was racist But I am not Asian. You were just making an observation though. I'm also laughing at some of these comments by white people. I don't have anything against white people but I think they have no say in whether or not something is racist if it doesn't have to do with their own race. I am not saying all white people are racist but since white is the dominant race i don't really think they know when they're being racist or know what it's like to be on the receiving end.

    Your response sounds a bit racist.
  • karinschoultz
    karinschoultz Posts: 50 Member
    Not racist at all! Dont think another minute about it!
  • RachelBiancaxx
    RachelBiancaxx Posts: 62 Member
    Racist, no.

    Stereotypical, yes!

    This is what I was thinking. A lot of people don't know the difference between racism and stereotyping.
  • YoungIronG
    YoungIronG Posts: 125 Member
    im suprised at how many 'non-whites' are saying this is not racist...


    i, for one, am indifferent
  • gabbygirl78
    gabbygirl78 Posts: 936 Member
    Ugh... so freakin sick of dumb *kitten* people throwing the racism card out every time someone says something others may not agree with ESPECIALLY if it is statistically true! Grow the F up people! EVERYONE ISN"T RACIST!!!!!:noway:
  • Kirstyw871
    Kirstyw871 Posts: 216 Member
    I find those who take offence to meaningless comments the racist ones.
  • RedHeadDevotchka
    RedHeadDevotchka Posts: 1,394 Member
    Eating Chinese food is racist. We should all stick to our own race's cuisine and not mix them.
  • DeltaZero
    DeltaZero Posts: 1,197 Member
    Wait.... a chat room!?




    What?
  • Kirstyw871
    Kirstyw871 Posts: 216 Member
    Personally I don't think it was racist But I am not Asian. You were just making an observation though. I'm also laughing at some of these comments by white people. I don't have anything against white people but I think they have no say in whether or not something is racist if it doesn't have to do with their own race. I am not saying all white people are racist but since white is the dominant race i don't really think they know when they're being racist or know what it's like to be on the receiving end.

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  • Beckscherie44
    Beckscherie44 Posts: 7
    Wait.... a chat room!?




    What?

    Yes... a chat room... i don't get it?
  • Kamikazeflutterby
    Kamikazeflutterby Posts: 770 Member
    No, but it may very well be wacist...

    In for wacism!

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  • SoDamnHungry
    SoDamnHungry Posts: 6,998 Member
    Science is not racism....

    Precisely.
  • SoDamnHungry
    SoDamnHungry Posts: 6,998 Member
    Wait.... a chat room!?




    What?

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  • ThriceBlessed
    ThriceBlessed Posts: 499 Member
    Clearly you didn't mean it as racist. Some people will take any suggestion that there is a difference between two races as racism... but that may be because often a simple noticing of differences is what starts a racist statement.

    AT any rate, Japanese, Chinese, Korean people are not genetically thin anymore than the rest of us. I assume you were talking about the more Eastern part of the Asian continent, because that is what most people think of when they talk about Asian food. The foods that were traditionally eaten in Japan, China, and Korea were not the grease laden, meat heavy dishes that are served in the Asian style restaurants in the U.S.

    Going back before modern times, Asian food was heavy on the vegetables, in some cases the fish, and rice, but meat and heavy greasy foods were rare. Meat was more of a garnish than a main dish. Most asian people also worked hard physically from sun-up to sun-down (just as most Americans did before modern times) and so the calories and carbs they did eat were burned off.

    Now that modern Western ways are being adopted by Asian cultures, their obesity rates are climbing. The same thing happens when Asian people move to the U.S. and abandon their traditional diets in exchange for the SAD diet.

    Even before modern times, an Asian person who overate would get overweight. The sport of Sumo Wrestling from Japan provides examples of this.

    That is not to say there is no physical difference between races, but whatever differences there are when it comes to metabolising food are slight at best, and not enough to make a significant difference in weight when the same diet and activity level is followed by both.
  • Going4Lean
    Going4Lean Posts: 1,078 Member
    It does not sound racist to me, just the usual over sensitive people online.
  • madworld1
    madworld1 Posts: 524
    Absolutely not racist. You sound like you have a very scientific understanding of how genetics can and DO play a role in many aspects of life.

    Don't worry about it.
  • hookilau
    hookilau Posts: 3,134 Member
    Nah, people are overly racially sensitive because the discussion can easily become a slippery slope.
    We are quite racially mixed in our household, I was born in Trinidad to Indian & Chinese mixed parents.

    People can be weird. I don't sweat the details :drinker:
  • KeViN_v2pt0
    KeViN_v2pt0 Posts: 375 Member
    Why does it have to be an Asian woman?

    Thats SEXIST!
  • DasGoff
    DasGoff Posts: 55
    Nope nothing racist about that. What you stated was truth to a degree, I studied Forensic Anthropology last year and Asian bone structure tends to be a lot smaller in framing and overall size than Caucasian or African, and female bone structure, in general tends to be smaller than male. In addition to this muscle size and distribution tends to be different in males and females, making women naturally appear slim and men more muscly. (For the guy screaming sexist in the above post) :)
    It isn't racist or sexist, it's science, it's not like you were being abusive.
  • DeltaZero
    DeltaZero Posts: 1,197 Member
    Wait.... a chat room!?




    What?

    s8erQT: a/s/l?????

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  • ThriceBlessed
    ThriceBlessed Posts: 499 Member
    Personally I don't think it was racist But I am not Asian. You were just making an observation though. I'm also laughing at some of these comments by white people. I don't have anything against white people but I think they have no say in whether or not something is racist if it doesn't have to do with their own race. I am not saying all white people are racist but since white is the dominant race i don't really think they know when they're being racist or know what it's like to be on the receiving end.

    You do realise you just made a sweeping generalization about white people, don't you? You assume none of us have ever been on the receiving end of racism. I won't give examples because it will only fuel racism of all kinds, but I will say that even a small amount of research will reveal that sometimes people are discriminated against because of being white, and that there are some people who hate all white people. So yes, sometimes we ARE on the receiving end of racism.
  • destructor2013
    destructor2013 Posts: 50
    So many people confuse racism and stereotyping and it really annoys me. That's a big pet peeve of mine. People like that need a dictionary. Racism is the belief that one race is superior or inferior to another race in any aspect/way/shape/form because of their race. Stereotyping is saying something like Asian people eat a lot of rice, or White people eat a lot of Lobster (or whatever White people are stereotyped to eat), or Black people eat a lot chicken. Or something like all Americans are fat & lazy, or all French people are rude jerks. None of the former scenarios are racist because it's not saying that any of those races is superior to another or inferior to another. It's stereotyping because it is generalizing a characteristic of someone solely based on their race. The latter are not racist either because they are not about a race but about a country's citizens and instead it is also stereotyping. Most countries have multiple races amongst its citizenry. But many people would say all of these are racism because they don't understand the definition of the word and get bent out of shape about anything mentioning race.
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