Mistaken For Racism...

[Judge]

Here' there's a few issues with people from different African nations calling themselves black and that upsets the local Aboriginal populations who in general always were quite racist, there's no love lost between those two groups.

I suspect you're reflecting the same dynamic as my coworker from Haiti.

 

[Jeff T]

Even the geneology/ancestry companies can get it wrong. My nephew is Korean. But his ancestry report said he was half Chinese and half Japanese!

 

[GrownupGirl]

It seems we Canadians are always either being mistaken for Americans by Europeans and mistaken for Europeans by Americans.
"You call football soccer, you must be American!"
"You use the metric system, you must be European!"
It's exhausting.

 

[Neonatal RRT]

My Korean DIL was telling me that Korean, Japanese & Chinese generally look alike and the main way to tell them apart is by clues like language & clothing.
At first, that seemed racist until I thought about the similarities between Americans, Canadians, Brits & Australians.

The term "racist". I am reminded of a quote from the cult-classic movie "The Princess Bride". "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." Are you showing prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism? If not, then perhaps you're only describing some sort of difference.

 

[Mary Terry]

Nope, that's a picture of many different people.

All of whom are Americans. It could also be a photo of Canadians, Mexicans or British.

It irks me when people confuse nationality with race.

 

[Mary Terry]

Even then, Americans dress very differently than Europeans, and Brits dress differently from other Europeans

You might be able to rely on clothing and styles to differentiate among Americans and Europeans, neither of which are races.

 

[Forest Cat]

It irks me when people confuse nationality with race.

It can be tricky, for example, if I move to the US and get US citizenship I'm still Norwegian. I'm just a Norwegian with US citizenship. Because Norwegians are an ethnic group. According to wikipedia. So nothing can change the fact that I'm a Norwegian, no matter where I go. So there's ethnicity and citizienship and race. It's a mess really, discussing these things almost always ends in a mess because there are so many x factors. Many differences.

 

[Mary Terry]

It can be tricky, for example, if I move to the US and get US citizenship I'm still Norwegian. I'm just a Norwegian with US citizenship. Because Norwegians are an ethnic group. So there's ethnicity and citizienship and race. It's a mess really, discussing these things almost always ends in a mess because there are so many x factors.

If you moved to the US, you'd be an American (nationality) with Norwegian ancestry (nationality). Norwegian is not a race. American isn't a race, either. Caucasian is a race.

Most people don't realize that Mexico is almost as diverse as the USA in the number of different races that comprise the population, yet people incorrectly refer to Mexican as a race. Hispanic is an ethnicity.

 

[Suzanne]

I am obsessed with Korea, since getting into watching Korean dramas and I would say that one can tell the differences.

I find Koreans have a softer orential look about them ( more subtle).

Wouldn't call her racist though; racist surely is about mocking another race?

 

[Mary Terry]

I am obsessed with Korea, since getting into watching Korean dramas and I would say that one can tell the differences.

I find Koreans have a softer orential look about them ( more subtle).

Wouldn't call her racist though; racist surely is about mocking another race?

Just so you know, Asian Americans say that calling them "oriental" is racist. They are Asians. Rugs and decorations are oriental (a style).

 

[Outdated]

So nothing can change the fact that I'm a Norwegian, no matter where I go.

Why would you want that to change?

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

I found similar issues when I worked in some communities. There were issues between Haitians and American blacks. Also between all the so-called "hispanic" groups. The Mexicans did not trust the Cubans and the Cubans saw the Mexican as "less than. And then there were the people from Colombia, Honduras, Guatamala and others. And then there were differences between the Indigenous people and the "conquerors."

I had to work with and balance all these differences and it was a real education because before I did this work, I would have lumped them all into Hispanic and think they all had the same values and culture. I was naive.

 

[Outdated]

We had a similar issue in Melbourne for many years between different Greek populations and this often broke out in to extreme violence at soccer matches. Helenic Greeks against Macedonian Greeks.

In the end the government stepped in and all sporting clubs were forced to remove any non-Australian ethnic references from their clubs. Club names had to change, as well as the symbols they used. That sort of worked and then we introduced a new bill where people that demonstrate that they don't accept Australian values and way of life can lose their citizenship and be deported.

There hasn't been any soccer violence since the 90s now.

 

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