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Originally Posted by MrL_JaKiri
Our race does have some qualities that are superior to other races, just like other races have qualities which our superior to the "average" caucasian.
It's not a racism issue.
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Race is a social phenomenom. Someone is considered black in the US when the only undeniably black person in their family was their grandfather (everyone else as pale as a ghost), and in Brazil if you've have even a bit of 'white' ancestry in you, you're considered white. It's not based wholly on clear physical traits. Some people (including very dark skinned people), and even entire groups of people (like Italians in America have) can even change races in their lifetime and beconsidered white and the reverse is also true. Here's a another great example: The South African arpatheid government made Japanese 'honorary whites'.
How the hell would you even begin to classify the people of New Orleans into destinct races. They have 'black' indians - slaves who escaped and lived with Native Americans, french people of all sorts of skin tones, caribian islanders who are both of African and Caribean indian descent put into the area by the French King, French Canadians (Cajuns is short for Acadians from Nova Scotia), a slew of other types of Europeans, Filipinos who settled there in the late 1500's, and they've all lived there for hundreds of years, interbreeding.
As such it follows that the attribution of who fits in what race varies from person to person, is highly arbitrary and so attributing qualities, and making judgmental values probably based on non scientific assumptions and stereotypes permeated in the media lead me declare your comment null and void. If you were being sarcastic , excuse me.