Can the racial barrier, and sterotypes be truly broken?

[zaseo]

The racial barrier is broken, but only to a certain extend. I know that stereotypes shall always exist, but I think that people take the racial thing way to far. Its annoys me personally when people say I act white since I look more black. Its ticks me off hearing that, and it can hurt inside getting call the n word by anyone. It feels bad knowing that part of your on race calls you a racial slur like everyday. As far as I feel we are a race of humans, and we are all related. The race things brings up the problems of equality of opportunity, and equality of outcome. If someone has opportunity even if not much they have the potential to be successful in their life. The person may have a harder time through life just because of there ethnicity. Life not fair at times, and I know that the reality of things. As far as society says if you have certain traits you are that race. For me society says I'm a African American. I'm have DNA of Indo-European people,and African people, but seeing as genetics can skip generations I came out a bid more dark skinned. I might look more black, but seriously I get stereotype the hell out of as a want to be white boy WTF. I don't care what others think, but its annoying getting ask questions about something like swag or who is your favorite rapper. WTF is swaging? Another example is if I talk about rock music, or something I would get made fun. I hate hearing boy you're black act gangster, or like act ghetto WTF. I also ticks me off hearing somebody calling a Hispanic a Mexican when they could be of a different nationally. Its the similar with calling Asian Chinese. It would not surprise me if someone wants to kick your ass for that. If only something could be done, but what can?

[Mirus]

Alright ...first,
I'd like to point out that a Mexican born in the US is hispanic, and a Chinese person is Asian.

I dont think the world can break the racial barrier and by the world I mean the world we will get to see, maybe in a couple of thousand years people will grow up.

In the mean time, take advantage of the privliges you have as a minority!

Universities and companies have a certain percentage of each ethnic group they must meet.. in other words, let say you apply for a college and there is only one spot left.

A white male wants the spot and has a perfect GPA, your GPA is not perfect but it meets the requirements of the university, the university will pick you over the white male ( assuming they have not yet met their percentage of African American students).

I'm sorry if that did not help you.

I'll try another approach, be proud of who you are and accept the steriotypes, you should actually feel special that you're not the typical African American and own your culture.



In the end...

We are all Asian or African decent.


<3 to the Asians and the Africans

[Azure Knight]

No, the race barrier will never be broken, and stereotypes will always exist, sadly.

However, as Mirus mentioned, there's a great deal of Affirmative Action, if it's still called that, in the US today. Therefore, being a minority gives you many advantages for getting into college, and landing a good job.

Also, many people find pride in their race. For example, I'm Japanese, and damn proud of it. I also take pride in my Jewish ancestry. I'm also able to parade through the streets, talking about how we did things in the old country XD. Love the confused looks I get when I put on a fake Russian accent.

[fepkk]

Alright ...first,
I'd like to point out that a Mexican born in the US is hispanic, and a Chinese person is Asian.

Ah, just one thing before I start. I think he knows that Chinese people are Asians. He is just saying that almost everyone tends to stereotype all Asians as Chineses.

Anyway, I believe that these barriers will never be broken. Everyone judges one way or another. By doing that, using sterotypes is just one step away. I mean, just by what people say, you may end up sterotyping them. For example, if I commit a lot of mistakes in this forum and don't know much about dothack, people might think that I am a troll(just an hypothetic situation, please).
Look at all these names that we've created to name social groups: nerds, geeks, emo, dork, punks to name a few. Concerning racial barriers, there are still many things in our society that encourage these behaviors. The best we can do is fight against it starting from ourselves and always trying to make people see that they are being racist. Most of them don't have a clue that they are acting inappropriately.

[zerokoolpsx]

Sadly no, it's too ingrained into the media, movies, and music. I see stereotypes all the time in movies, especially comedy when it's presented in a lighthearted manner. Can the race barrier be shattered? No way in hell. It defines this person who they are, culturally. If a young child was adopted, and had great foster parents from a certain ethnicity, he or she would almost be compelled to find their biological parents to find more about themselves and his/her parents. A lot of people still judge a person based on the color of their skin. Like fepkk said, best way is to start with ourselves.

[|<!73]

I believe the barrier can be broken but not under a normal sense. It requires people to stop thinking about it in the first place and I think that would be easier based upon the variety of community your around. Eventuallly you notice a difference but it won't come up in the mind as often if this variey is the new common.

[Erranty]

I'd say no, it'll always be there. And its mostly the fault of the minorities.

The majority sets up systems that will allow the minorities to educate themselves and eventually become equals to the majority and thus prosper together. However, minorities choose to abuse the system and live uneducated, unskilled, and unwisely off of the majority's kindness. This then causes economic problems, more racism, and more reverse racism that continues this endless circular flow of destruction.

Personally, I say shut down all foreign aid programs, minority aid programs, and financial aid programs. Make the people who can't take care of themselves have to choose to either learn how to do so, or die off and stop being a burden. Essentially, Evolve or Perish.

[SilverGunnerHaseo]

Sadly, I agree with most people. It won't be broken. At my school, LOADS of people call me "chino" (chinese in spanish), say that I'm chinese, or say "Oh, I thought you were chinese." But I'm not. I'm korean. Most of them think that all asians are either chinese or japanese, and that we speak the same language. But theres a big difference. Japanese are dark skinned, a little short, and their language has a lot of syllable. Koreans are tall, light skinned, round faced, and big eyes. Chinese are sorta a combination. southerners and islanders are very dark and a little short.

[Mirus]

Ahh... well you cant really blame people for not knowing the difference, Japanese, Korean and such people do look alike! (The only ones that look really different are indians.. as in from India)

The only way for me to set them apart is hearing them speak their language really...
On a side note it is actually pretty smart to call an asian person "chinese" since the largest population is chinese, so you have a good chance of guessing things right.

I'm saying it's smart, not encouraging it!

I know it can be annoying, but you really cant blame people for being so ignorant... there is no class titled "What race is that asian?!"

I apologize
<3 to you

[TheSorrow]

Ahh... well you cant really blame people for not knowing the difference, Japanese, Korean and such people do look alike! (The only ones that look really different are indians.. as in from India)

The only way for me to set them apart is hearing them speak their language really...
On a side note it is actually pretty smart to call an asian person "chinese" since the largest population is chinese, so you have a good chance of guessing things right.

I'm saying it's smart, not encouraging it!

I know it can be annoying, but you really cant blame people for being so ignorant... there is no class titled "What race is that asian?!"

I apologize
<3 to you

...And THIS is why the racial barrier won't ever be broken D:

[Dimitri]

Saying NEVER is rather harsh isn't it. Is it likely to be broken in our lifetime? Most likely not. Our children's lifetime? No, it's not likely? The children of our children's children? The magic 8 ball says probably not. But that it will NEVER EVER be broken? I don't know, it's possible. It will take work but it IS possible. While I don't really have any of the heavy minorities in my blood line, I do possess a wide variety (indian, irish, german, scott, etc.) and am offically a mutt. If the time comes when everybody's a mutt then the barrier will weaken, and might even brake some day. All I'm saying is don't count true unity out quite yet. Not even the MAGIC 8 BALL can see that far into the future.

[zaseo]

Well its natural for people to stay close to their race. I don't much. I try to connect to the African Americans, but I connect more to Indo-European Americans better. I have the pride of a human, not a black, or white. Its sucks to be stereotyped. Its even bad to the point were I feel like I would be hated by some people in my family if I had a girlfriend that is not black. If only I could be myself without stereotypes. I study everybody history, and see everybody point of view. I can do nothing, but accept being call a African American teen that act European, or Asian. Hell even the name Oreo follows me at times because people say I'm black on the outside white on the inside. The barrier is only broken to people if they allow other cultures to come in. I learn to ask people their nationally, because I know from a little experience that seeing a Hispanic doesn't mean that they are a Mexican, or that a Asian person is Chinese. I have a friend that would want to kick someone's ass because they call them Chinese when she Vietnamese. I wonder how can people call Obama black, when he clearly has blood of both European, and African people. Its the same with me, because if you were to look at some of my family you will find German like people, and African like people. The whole race thing is ****. When if comes down to it no one is of a pure race. More than likely you have some blood of a other race.

[AuraTwilight]

Oh wah, grow some skin. It's not anyone's taking your rights away.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbud8rLejLM

[SilverGunnerHaseo]

I agree with you zaseo. There is no pure race. Many caucasians here in the US are very mixed like with French, German, British, Scottish and so on bloodlines. When it comes down to it, there is no pure race. Example: People MIGRATED to Japan. We are human, that's what counts. But many people are ignorant and do not see that.

[_Tri-edge_]

We are all the same race. The human race. If people still don't get that, or don't even bother to admit it, then the racial barrier will never be broken. Its' just like world peace. As long as a human disagrees with another human, there will always be conflict. No peace. It's inevitable.

[grave robbing adept rogue]

yes we can brake the barrier, it's just stupid people who keep the barrier up.

[Helbaworshipper]

To be honest, we are the only race that constantly is afraid of equality. It is not that we do not desire equality, but we have reason. We have had more issues than any other species in history. There is always going to be a barrier keeping one part of the human race from another part.

Religion has more issues still awaiting it. Even though we can mix religions in marriage and even other nationalities... We can't even properly communicate.

We always complicate our culture. We have psychology and all these other sciences. If we can't even agree on the right way to teach our children, how can we even break the barriers completely?

[AuraTwilight]

To be honest, we are the only race that constantly is afraid of equality.

That's because no other species on the planet has any conception of what equality is. No other species pretends to possess equality; Who's superior and who's inferior is very clearly distinct, as is "In-the-group" and "out-of-the-group" that forms packs and families.

Racism, although unpleasant, is a natural extension of our original instincts to exclude, which our brains tell us is necessary so we can form positive connections with others. It's a fear that creates those giggling girls that exclude and laugh at the chunky new girl. It's the fear that ostracizes and demonizes other religions and sexual deviants. It's all the same thing. We're fighting our instincts here in an uphill battle. We're doing pretty f*cking well, all things considered, but the only way to really beat racism is to defeat the primal part of ourselves that say that people are to be feared, and that separation is good.

Basically the hippie peace-and-love assholes are kinda right on this one.

[zaseo]

To be honest, we are the only race that constantly is afraid of equality.

That's because no other species on the planet has any conception of what equality is. No other species pretends to possess equality; Who's superior and who's inferior is very clearly distinct, as is "In-the-group" and "out-of-the-group" that forms packs and families.

Racism, although unpleasant, is a natural extension of our original instincts to exclude, which our brains tell us is necessary so we can form positive connections with others. It's a fear that creates those giggling girls that exclude and laugh at the chunky new girl. It's the fear that ostracizes and demonizes other religions and sexual deviants. It's all the same thing. We're fighting our instincts here in an uphill battle. We're doing pretty f*cking well, all things considered, but the only way to really beat racism is to defeat the primal part of ourselves that say that people are to be feared, and that separation is good.

Basically the hippie peace-and-love assholes are kinda right on this one.

Most people are likely a little racist. I'm going to be myself, but people think I act Asian, and even a White supremacist. The race war between Asian, Hispanic, Europeans, and Africans will last forever at this rate. The worst thing that could happen would be if every race form some group like the Nazi with the whole superior race thing. All of the subdivisions of the different races will fight, and own each other. Everyone would fall under the rule of one race, or everyone would be f*ck from the radiation poisoning that would be cause by nuclear weapons. Do you think we could get a Asian, or Hispanic president in the US? That would be awesome. I'm leaning more on the Republicans side as far as views, but I not really left, or right wing. The Democratic party is more mix, and middle class right? Think there a way to get the the Republicans party more racially mix? I think we need ideas from both parties because sooner, or later something is going to f*ck up.

[wave killer]

Race and discrimination will always be a part of the human species. People will always look down on those who are different and only the select few will see that we are all the same race as human beings. It makes it easier this way; a sort of comfort zone where everything is as it should be and you feel at ease knowing that nothing will change. That is why people label themselves as "white", "black", "hispanic", "Jew", "Muslim", "Asian", etc., it is the help them find comfort in a world where you struggle to survive, in a world that refuses to let you have it easy.

But I refuse to except these labels. I refuse believe that I'm better then a Mexican because I speak English. I refuse to believe that I am more pure then a homosexual because my love is towards the opposite sex.

I am human. Nothing more, and certainly nothing less.