Is racism a generational thing?

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Racism is a result of intolerance, ignorance, and hatred. That will never change and there will always be people who harbour those traits. Don't think old people are more racist, I just think younger generations have learnt to hide their racist feelings better as they realise it's taboo to be racist ( as opposed to the older generations who were used to open racism being the norm in previous decades). You'd be surprised how many people are actually racist but who don't bring it up. I've been shocked by comments piers/colleagues have made in the past, never knowing they were a racist at heart.

Edit: opinion of a 22 y.o <ok>
 
Racism is a combination of things. My wife is quite racist, despite being 35, university educated and having a good career. But then she's Russian, and racist is much more culturally acceptable and widespread there. Likewise, much of the growth in racism in areas like Burnley is a reaction to social problems like unemployment and deprivation. I think calling racism a generational thing is quite dangerous, cos it will lead people to believe we will somehow "grow out of it" whereas we should be looking to tackle it and actually show that is' unacceptable.

To be honest, racism is a form of xenophobia, which I think is largely a natural instinct in most animals. Even people who aren't overtly racist will often have racially driven preferences. I don't consider myself racist, but then I have never found myself attracted to a black woman. I don't have anything against black people, but I just don't find them attractive. But then part of being an evolved species is rising about those types of inbuilt instinct and not allowing them to affect our behaviour in a negative way.
 
Swarbs said:
Racism is a combination of things. My wife is quite racist, despite being 35, university educated and having a good career. But then she's Russian, and racist is much more culturally acceptable and widespread there. Likewise, much of the growth in racism in areas like Burnley is a reaction to social problems like unemployment and deprivation. I think calling racism a generational thing is quite dangerous, cos it will lead people to believe we will somehow "grow out of it" whereas we should be looking to tackle it and actually show that is' unacceptable.

To be honest, racism is a form of xenophobia, which I think is largely a natural instinct in most animals. Even people who aren't overtly racist will often have racially driven preferences. I don't consider myself racist, but then I have never found myself attracted to a black woman. I don't have anything against black people, but I just don't find them attractive. But then part of being an evolved species is rising about those types of inbuilt instinct and not allowing them to affect our behaviour in a negative way.
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You like Russians though..:emoticon-0165-muscl
 
Swarbs said:
I don't consider myself racist, but then I have never found myself attracted to a black woman. I don't have anything against black people, but I just don't find them attractive.
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Swarbs said:
Racism is a combination of things. My wife is quite racist, despite being 35, university educated and having a good career. But then she's Russian, and racist is much more culturally acceptable and widespread there. Likewise, much of the growth in racism in areas like Burnley is a reaction to social problems like unemployment and deprivation. I think calling racism a generational thing is quite dangerous, cos it will lead people to believe we will somehow "grow out of it" whereas we should be looking to tackle it and actually show that is' unacceptable.

To be honest, racism is a form of xenophobia, which I think is largely a natural instinct in most animals. Even people who aren't overtly racist will often have racially driven preferences. I don't consider myself racist, but then I have never found myself attracted to a black woman. I don't have anything against black people, but I just don't find them attractive. But then part of being an evolved species is rising about those types of inbuilt instinct and not allowing them to affect our behaviour in a negative way.
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Can totally understand this, xenophobia is often misinterpreted as racism. It goes further though to almost an individual level, with a kind of xenophobia towards neighbours you don't even know and form opinions nonetheless. I am not surprised when according to the media there's a rapist or a mugger with a knife in every park and unlit spot, a *****phile in every school scout and sport club and literally a queue of burglars waiting to rob you, 500 constantly people trying to hack your compter.

I'd say the majorty of perceived racism is xenophobia, it's cultural which means it's conditioning or programming.

I rarely find black women attractive, but fk me there are exceptions dude<ok>
 
I`m glad we don`t have this on any more terrible....

[video=youtube;VOhXpmozpbE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOhXpmozpbE[/video]

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I don't think the older generation are necessarily more racist. But I do think that their attitudes are more entrenched and more resistant to change.

And as Swarbs was alluding to, nationalism is not the same as racism. Russia's youth is largely nationalistic, but that doesn't mean that they're all more hostile to outsiders than say American youth. Nationalism can be a force for good, it's overthrown empires in the past which is why places like the Balkan countries are still so nationalistic today.
 
biggerbossman said:
I`m glad we don`t have this on any more terrible....

[video=youtube;VOhXpmozpbE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOhXpmozpbE[/video]
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That was a class program back in it's day Boss, he always ended up looking the total dick at the end.
Alot of us have an Alf Garnett in the family.
 
I'm no racist, I'm actually a strong anti-racist - although once while making sweet love to an African hooker I did accidentally shout "That's it you ****ing black whore" - she didn't mind one bit.

...Infact she invited me back to pay her a visit next time I was in town.
 
Red said:
Racism is a result of intolerance, ignorance, and hatred. That will never change and there will always be people who harbour those traits. Don't think old people are more racist, I just think younger generations have learnt to hide their racist feelings better as they realise it's taboo to be racist ( as opposed to the older generations who were used to open racism being the norm in previous decades). You'd be surprised how many people are actually racist but who don't bring it up. I've been shocked by comments piers/colleagues have made in the past, never knowing they were a racist at heart.

Edit: opinion of a 22 y.o <ok>
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Agree - I think a lot of that's down to what you can and cannot say in the work place really - some of the things I heard said to black /Asian staff and to females 20 years ago would never be tolerated now.
 
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