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Kwek00 路 41-45, M
@Zonuss
[quote]The United States of America is a racist country....true or false ?[/quote]
Well, it all comes down to how you define "racist country". For me that would be a country, that in it's laws on a national level, would clearly make a distinction on the basis of race. And therefore have some kind of system that clearly benefits one race over the other.
I don't think the United States has that. You do find local [i](state-community)[/i] rulings that are made by people that has issues with demographics [i](sometimes based on their race, and thus racism)[/i]. But you can go to the supreme court and fight those instances. And the supreme court, in the last 20 years, seem to have been ruling in favor of non-discrimination because that's part of the federal [i](national)[/i] ideals that at the moment the US put forward [i](even though not everyone in all the branches is on board yet)[/i].
That the United States (and pretty much every other country in the world) has issues with discrimination, also on the basis of race. Well, that's something that clearly still excists. And that these individuals that are struggling with their biasses create groups and amass political power to press for legeslation on the basis of their bias... well, that's true too. But I rather talk about individuals or particulair groups then instead of saying that the "country" is "racist" or that a "state" is "racist". But you'll find counties and regional parts [i](most of the time rural) [/i]where people grow up in a certain climate that kinda reproduces the biasses that their parents, grandparents and great great grand parents have. And growing out of this, is just not an easy thing to do. It goes really slow, and thinking that a country that had issues with American citizens from African descent drinking out of the same waterfountain as those from European descendent in the 50s, just grown out of it in 70 years... well, that's really utopic. So yeah, the United states deff has issues that it has to work on as a nation. But the issues are more regional and the racists are always individuals.
I hope that explains.
[quote]The United States of America is a racist country....true or false ?[/quote]
Well, it all comes down to how you define "racist country". For me that would be a country, that in it's laws on a national level, would clearly make a distinction on the basis of race. And therefore have some kind of system that clearly benefits one race over the other.
I don't think the United States has that. You do find local [i](state-community)[/i] rulings that are made by people that has issues with demographics [i](sometimes based on their race, and thus racism)[/i]. But you can go to the supreme court and fight those instances. And the supreme court, in the last 20 years, seem to have been ruling in favor of non-discrimination because that's part of the federal [i](national)[/i] ideals that at the moment the US put forward [i](even though not everyone in all the branches is on board yet)[/i].
That the United States (and pretty much every other country in the world) has issues with discrimination, also on the basis of race. Well, that's something that clearly still excists. And that these individuals that are struggling with their biasses create groups and amass political power to press for legeslation on the basis of their bias... well, that's true too. But I rather talk about individuals or particulair groups then instead of saying that the "country" is "racist" or that a "state" is "racist". But you'll find counties and regional parts [i](most of the time rural) [/i]where people grow up in a certain climate that kinda reproduces the biasses that their parents, grandparents and great great grand parents have. And growing out of this, is just not an easy thing to do. It goes really slow, and thinking that a country that had issues with American citizens from African descent drinking out of the same waterfountain as those from European descendent in the 50s, just grown out of it in 70 years... well, that's really utopic. So yeah, the United states deff has issues that it has to work on as a nation. But the issues are more regional and the racists are always individuals.
I hope that explains.