Streetwiseguy said:What is an American, if there is a separate category for Native American? And 13 of those categories are just generic white people.
Streetwiseguy said:What is an American, if there is a separate category for Native American? And 13 of those categories are just generic white people.
tuna55 said:Streetwiseguy said:And 13 of those categories are just generic white people.
That last sentence is incredibly racist.
Not to mention the fact that only 3 of those 13 "generic white people" even remotely shared a common native language.
frenchyd said:In reply to Duke :
....what about all of us mixed race people?
...quickly making all this obsession over race and ethnicity absurd.
To quote (a not so good movie that I don't really remember the name of):
"we just have to keep F'ing each other until we are all the same color"
In reply to aircooled :
Agreed, completely. I'm just pointing out that the European model that is so heavily idealized in certain circles conveniently, uhhh, whitewashes over a few important differences (to coin a phrase).
In no way do I think that the inherent potential of any particular nationality or ethnicity is inferior or superior.
But any system that needs to serve a wide diversity of nationalities / ethnicities / cultures is going to have a more difficult task than one that doesn't, particularly in education.
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