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To: Cronos
My point is that when you pass the rascist word around so easily it begins to lose meaning, using the operational defination of racist as it is used in America today, 90% of the world qualifies as racist. As far as the genetic history of the human race goes to disqualify or quibble over racial designations, same thing...if there is no race, than there are no racists. Words mean things...or they don't. Hurling the word racist around as a way to intimidate people is nothing but intellectual boshelvism.
If you are not aware of it, you should be, that you cannot be a citizen of Japan unless you are racially Japanese. Koreans who have lived there for generations are not allowed to vote. Folks from the Indian sub-continent are different racially than the European folks, they would say so and so would nearly everyone else, except you I guess. I am aware of the genetic connection between the two peoples and between all of mankind for that matter..so your argument is that it is all an illusion..okay fine, but the folks in Asia, on the subcontinent, In Africa and in pretty much the entire world actually see, react to, and discuss these differences. Is it all a "white male" construct inflicted on these huge groups of people...China actually built a huge wall to keep immigrants out...I am quite aware oif inter-marriage between races and that is a good and fine thing my whole family is quite the rainbow, but that is irrelevant to our conversation.
169 posted on 04/03/2004 1:10:49 PM PST by ronnieb
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To: ronnieb
Folks from the Indian sub-continent are different racially than the European folks,

Err, no, the folks from Iran and India ARE Aryanic in origin, that's the same Aryans the nazis thought THEY were. They are racially similar to the Russians and the Europeans and to their cousins, the Semites.
Culturally, that's a different matter.
178 posted on 04/03/2004 1:16:53 PM PST by Cronos (W2K4!)
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To: ronnieb
"If you are not aware of it, you should be, that you cannot be a citizen of Japan unless you are racially Japanese."

This hasn't been true for a long time. There are plenty of naturalized Japanese citizens with non-Japanese ancestry.

240 posted on 04/03/2004 2:28:04 PM PST by Truthsayer20
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To: ronnieb
Ronnie: China actually built a huge wall to keep immigrants out...

Ha HA HA! The chinese built walls to keep the nomads from raiding the Chinese towns. THe first Chinese Emperor united these walls. The walls weren't to keep immigrants out, but to keep raiders out.
555 posted on 04/04/2004 1:57:46 AM PST by Cronos (W2K4!)
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