I won’t define myself on the ideas of a self identified racist. Many people like that assume everyone is like them and just lying to themselves or trying to virtue signal.
Though, like Avenue Q joked, it’s very easy to have some ingrained racist views, and it takes work and introspection to resist it.
it’s very easy to have some ingrained racist views
I think part of the reason is that it is at least one part natural pattern recognition. I am from a “diverse” country and more than races, I mostly have region specific biases, of which, we have about 30 to pick from. So yeah, It is big pool to choose from. Naturally living in a diverse nation meant I never looked at people from races being inferior or superior. But at the same time, since I am from a particular region, and since your nature heavily depends on your surrounding, i have region specific things, and I am “region-ist”. Like I do go “people from this religion are very loud” or “timid” or “stupid”. But at the same time, my natural speech is not that harsh, and so even if i have regional preconcieved notions, I am not often hurtful to others.
I know, I wasn’t so much chastising you but more just speaking my mind. I was worried about being too serious in a joke context.
And yeah, the basic patern recognition parts of our brain does make it easy to have prejudices, and makes it harder to not knee-jerk react. (Also forgot to mention I’m also a manga enjoyer. Reading at my own pace is much easier than watching shows that define the pace).
I won’t define myself on the ideas of a self identified racist. Many people like that assume everyone is like them and just lying to themselves or trying to virtue signal.
Though, like Avenue Q joked, it’s very easy to have some ingrained racist views, and it takes work and introspection to resist it.
(my comment was mostly joke-y bit)
I think part of the reason is that it is at least one part natural pattern recognition. I am from a “diverse” country and more than races, I mostly have region specific biases, of which, we have about 30 to pick from. So yeah, It is big pool to choose from. Naturally living in a diverse nation meant I never looked at people from races being inferior or superior. But at the same time, since I am from a particular region, and since your nature heavily depends on your surrounding, i have region specific things, and I am “region-ist”. Like I do go “people from this religion are very loud” or “timid” or “stupid”. But at the same time, my natural speech is not that harsh, and so even if i have regional preconcieved notions, I am not often hurtful to others.
I know, I wasn’t so much chastising you but more just speaking my mind. I was worried about being too serious in a joke context.
And yeah, the basic patern recognition parts of our brain does make it easy to have prejudices, and makes it harder to not knee-jerk react. (Also forgot to mention I’m also a manga enjoyer. Reading at my own pace is much easier than watching shows that define the pace).