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Originally Posted by Russ D
It might be because it appears that some people have different opinions of what constitutes 'racism'.
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Fine. But then those people ought to accept that it is their
opinion of what constitutes racism.
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Traditionally it has always referred the colour of someone's skin
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Racism is the prejudicial treatment of people on the basis of
race. That does NOT include nationality, sex, or lifestyle.
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Originally Posted by Russ D
but in recent years people have expanded it to include someone's nationality (which is actually xenophobia but never mind) or even their culture.
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Who are these people that have arbitrarily re-written the dictionaries?
You have identified correctly, that a fear of foreigners is in fact xenophobia - it is not 'racism'. In any case, I didn't think nationality was an issue in this case.
As to the idea of 'culture' - we've had plenty of threads here arguing about culture. More often than not a denial of anything called 'British Culture', and usually centred around the inability to define a culture.
Yet when it comes to this topic, all of a sudden the notion of a 'culture' in respect to travellers/gypsies/pikeys is accepted without question.
I have asked (yes Mr. Angry - that was one of those straight questions you couldn't answer) for some indication of what defined that 'culture', so that I could see what it was that was so special about travellers/gypsies/pikeys that meant we should give special consideration to them.
My contention is that when I refer to the illegal and anti-social activities of pikeys, then I am NOT attacking a 'culture' - unless someone were to suggest that indeed, these activities
were part of this special traveller/gypsy/pikey culture, in which case I'd gladly criticize all of them on the basis that those activities do not fit with ANY social/political/ethnic/racial grouping that believe they have a place in British society.