Originally Posted by
TheDeathKnight
My main point is not to defer responsibility.
Everyone is responsible for how they turn out in the long run.
People can change if they really want to.
I have very little sympathy.
People from really poor, really shitty situations, sometimes manage
to go to college, move out, and go on to do great things...
Other people who are given it all, fuck it all up, and end up losers.
But what I am talking about is race.
I'm talking about adopted kids, raised by another race.
If you take a black kid, and raise him in white suburbia,
and give them morals, teach them resposibility, they will
end up well-adjusted, going to college, and being a generally
nice person. They won't be ghetto or ignorant like the stereotypes.
I know this to be true, because I met two people who had this scenario.
Black and Asian. Both were as white as can be, in terms of how they
acted, what they were into, and how they talked. Not one drop of
ignorance, slang, etc... The asian did not act "asian" in any way.
Not shy, nor smart, etc...
But when I meet anyone who was raised in a strong cultural environment,
it *does* wear off on them. People raised in Japan have a very specific
way of acting. Same with people raised in a Latin household, or those
raised in the ghetto. If you fit a stereotype, it's because you were exposed
to it. If your parents take you to eat fried chicken every weekend, you will
grow to really like fried chicken. So if you are black, you end up fitting
a stereotype. If you grow up around a lot of gangsters rolling in "phat"
rides, with 22" wheels, and packing heat, and dealing drugs, and they
are the ones with the money and the women, you will want to grow
up to be like they are. Thus continuing the stereotypes.
Yes, you can change. But people are a product of their environment.
Race does not have much to do with it, if at all.
That's my point.
Give me some examples of how someone's skin color, or race, affects who they are, or how they act...
I'm guessing that 99% of examples are based on environment, and upbringing.
I have no problem with someone saying they do not want to hang out with ignorant, ghetto people. And I have no problem with saying you do not like a certain culture, and that you do not like how they act. But it's a culture. Not race. And it's a generalization, because not everyone can be judged based on color alone.
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