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(20,277 posts)I must not have gotten the 'be afraid' memo.
siligut
(12,272 posts)It was quite disturbing so I asked her what I did. She told me we (white people) had stolen their land. When I was younger and in a night club, a black woman was giving me the evil eye, so I asked her what I had done. She told me that we (white women) were stealing their men. When I was in China . . .
I am not afraid, but we whites might have it coming.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)As far as who people date, I think that is up to the couple involved. It really isn't anybody's business.
Demanding that people date within their race or ethnic group isn't going to go far to help racism.
White people did take everything away from Native Americans. Any time I see a program on the history channel, I think how unforgivable it is.
Yes, two completely different issues, being white and the evil eye are the unifying factors.
Yes, white people took the land and fucked it up so bad it looks irreparable. Actually I know it will repair itself once we are gone.
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)siligut
(12,272 posts)Mexicans are mixed Indian and Spanish, so half of her stole land from her other half.
RKP5637
(67,030 posts)see what the problem would be for a white minority!!!
Confusious
(8,317 posts)RKP5637
(67,030 posts)siligut
(12,272 posts)Oppression!!!! They are so good at it. Even if out numbered, they have those skills.
The Second Stone
(2,900 posts)we might start treating all minorities equally.
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)East Asians are the largest plurality.
Orrex
(63,084 posts)I worked very hard to be born white and male, so I deserve to reap the benefits of my diligent efforts.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Come to think of it, there really is no majority out there. And very, very few repukes. Coincidence? I think not.
siligut
(12,272 posts)The Mormon owned polynesian center and the old computer game Age of Empires makes me ponder if a religion will create the new ruling majority.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)they own pretty much the entire town of La'ie, where BYU-H and PCC are. They teamed up with the Catholics to saddle the state with a Prop H8-style ban on marriage equality.
But a Utah-style majority? Not gonna happen.
siligut
(12,272 posts)For such a small religion they sure make trouble/spread RW agenda.
LeftInTX
(24,541 posts)They are the fastest growing religion in Mexico.
siligut
(12,272 posts)Fast growing because they go out and recruit. Tell possible recruits huge lies and make impossible promises.
They make up about 2-3% in the US, but insinuate themselves into powerful positions.
They also concentrate in money making areas, like at two of my financial/investment institutions.
RZM
(8,556 posts)I don't know how Mormon the financial sector is. I wouldn't guess a whole lot, but I have no idea. Do you have data on this? Also not sure how you would measure insinuation into powerful positions.
siligut
(12,272 posts)Are you serious? One of my financial advisers told me about all the Mormons at Fidelity, but I had noticed it before at Merrill Lynch.
Mormons promote other Mormons. They share information with their brethren that they are sworn not to, because Mormons believe their religion is above the law.
RZM
(8,556 posts)Starting at 'They make up 2-3 percent . . .'
I'll admit 'replace it with Jew' isn't the most original or effective argument, but in this case, it's a bit eerie. Seriously, reread it with that in mind.
If you can't back up these types of assertions with facts, I really don't see why they are necessary.
siligut
(12,272 posts)I lived in Utah, my opinion has place here. You, of course may disagree, you have a place here too.
I'm not trying to launch a tirade over this. DU has more than enough flamewars to go around as it is.
Just something to think about. I think the rhetoric you use has a seriously troubled past - one that is troubled enough, IMO, not to use it.
But hey, that's just my opinion.
siligut
(12,272 posts)They promised to ruin my life and have made things very difficult for me.
I would liken them more to Nazis than Jews.
hunter
(38,264 posts)That's the way we wanted it.
I'm white and I grew up in a community that was 99.44% Ivory Soap White and mostly Republican. (My parents were held there by work. They've since retired and moved to a much nicer place.) I escaped that stifling culture in the mid 'eighties and I'm never going back.
DogPawsBiscuitsNGrav
(408 posts)bash them for preferring to breed inside theirs. Everyone wants to force their own personal beliefs on everyone else. What difference does it make if whites are the minority? In 10 more years none of this will likely matter anyway with the advance's in technology. Soon we'll be able to pick our childrens sex, eye, hair and skin color. You'll be able to have what ever you want no matter who you breed with as long as you have the money to pay for it.
leftstreet
(36,076 posts)There are no genetic markers that specifically distinguish one 'race' from another
You can study skin color, hair color, diseases, etc in terms of how humans adapted to their environments, but that's not 'race'
YoungDemCA
(5,714 posts)But human beings are very much a product of culture and social environment, and "race" is real as a social construct.
leftstreet
(36,076 posts)That you don't mind if people prefer to 'breed within' their culture and/or social environments
Confusious
(8,317 posts)Ethnicity, but the word everyone uses is race.
DogPawsBiscuitsNGrav
(408 posts)they want, so really it's going to be hard for anyone to argue that this or that is being wiped out when everyone has a choice. For example, people tend to want to express individualism. This is where fads come from. backwards I know, but that's human behavior.
Ten years ago it was the "thing" to get tats. Now almost everyone has them and I know young people who won't be getting them because "everyone" has them. So we see the new trend in being "different" or expressing individualism will be moving towards no tats.
The same will happen with children. It will be trendy for awhile to have pale white skin and light blue eyes, then the trend might move to dark skin and blond hair. Race or skin color issues will be a thing of the past. No one will have any idea what "race" your child is.
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)Which pretty much equate to the 4 commonly referred to races if you use 4 principle components. Clustering becomes better defined if you use 7 components to separate out some of the smaller populations.
So biologically, there is such a thing as race.
leftstreet
(36,076 posts)There's not a gene out there that manifests in one 'race' but not another
The groupings you're talking about don't establish what people commonly think of when they say 'race'
That's all I meant
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)The clusters do equate to white, east Asian, black and native American using 4 principle components.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_component_analysis
It is not based on single genes, but rather an analysis of patterns of alleles across multiple genes.
And there are some highly indicative gene complexes. For example the Neanderthal MHC haplotypes are present only in Eurasians and not in sub-Saharan Africans.
MynameisBlarney
(2,979 posts)if/when white folks become a minority is that the white racists will try something big.
YoungDemCA
(5,714 posts)And guess what?
.........
I'm fine with that.
Taverner
(55,476 posts)My kid is in the majority where I live. Not me or my wife (I'm white, she's asian) but HAPA
Hapa is the dominant "race" where we live
Starboard Tack
(11,181 posts)deafskeptic
(463 posts)iandhr
(6,852 posts)"I am one of the good ones."
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)I wanted to toss in an image after entering "board of directors" of a bunch of doughy looking codgers.
Okay, granted, there were plenty to choose from but amongst the images was this...
So I'll just let that be my reply.
siligut
(12,272 posts)Thank you Google.
CheapShotArtist
(333 posts)Like when people say that whites will lose their majority, how do we know for sure that this will continue? I mean all it is is just a trend. Trends can stop or reverse. It's not something that's written in stone.
Another thing I want to add is that I'm curious about whether the people who do these population studies include both racial AND ethnic make-up in these trends. For example, I heard that Latinos are the fastest-growing part of the population. But isn't it true that a person from any race can be Latino/Hispanic, whether they're black, white, or Asian?
naturallyselected
(84 posts)Something like 96% of the population is white. To me, a real drawback. My son recently married an African-American woman, and I worry they will leave the state because they won't want to raise children here.
I spent some time in Southern California two summers ago, and really enjoyed the ethnic and cultural diversity. That's the melting pot so many give lip service to. I loved it. I couldn't believe how old and white Maine looked on my return.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)lpbk2713
(42,696 posts)chaska
(6,794 posts)Just because you're not-white does not make you right about anything. Nor does being white make you somehow evil.
STFU already. There are some seriously self-hating and stupid dems.
I used to think like you people. Then I moved to a poor mixed race neighborhood. I know better now. There but for the grace of god go you.