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Originally Posted by MMM
If this child believes that one race is superior to another, then the child is racist.
Many racists wear this term as a badge of honor. The child may also be ignorant, but that is beyond the point.
We have no reason to think the programmers of the game are racist, despite the poor choice of images they chose, because we know about the history of Lil Sambo type imagery in Japan.
That image itself doesn't portray one race as superior to another in Japanese eyes, and that is the intended target.
Just as the word "Caucasian" may be based in a system of thinking where one race is more beautiful than the others, it doesn't make users of that word today racist or the use of the word racist because there is no racist intention behind the usage. I can agree there may be a racist history to the word, but that doesn't make the usage of the word racist.
The n-word has been dropped dozens of times in this thread. That doesn't mean the person who used it or the usage is racist.
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Let's agree to disagree, because all I have to say is exactly what you've already heard.
Salvanas: I disagree. From this thread alone, I've learned a lot. I know some people have learned some things as well. I learned from Tenchu that "falang" is not PC, and so I will never use it. Even if it's just with three people, something in this world has changed. That's a start.
I think that I can easily describe my culture to you without ever once mentioning my race.
Stereotypes do exist because enough people fit the idea. It's funny, I was JUST reading about this in a book. I'll type out some of what it says on stereotypes:
"In a cross-cultural setting, attributions result in stereotypes that may offer a false explanation for individual behavior. Stereotypes are oversimplified judgments made about people on the basis of their cultural group of physical characteristics. Cultural stereotypes may be quite strong and will not disappear easily. Tourists, in their brief contact with another country, often find confirmation of the stereotypes they hold... Though there is often some generalized truth in stereotypes, real-life situations and the people who fact them are more complex than the stereotype admits."
(From The Exchange Student Survival Kit by Bettina Hansel.)
It goes on to give the example of the stereotype that Americans are obsessed with time. There's an American exchange student who screams at her host sister because they're going to be a few minutes late for school. The host sister immediately assumes that the American exchange student is simply fitting the stereotype, when in fact the exchange student had a test that morning, and didn't want to be late. She fit the stereotype, but it was for a more complex reason than, "It's because she's an American."
The word "fucking" doesn't need to be added to make a word mean something insulting. If "Hispanic" is insulting, then that's enough. Unless I'm not quite understanding your point...