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Can races co-exist with other races?
Yes 88%  88%  [ 30 ]
No 12%  12%  [ 4 ]
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01 Oct 2011, 9:20 pm

Fnord wrote:
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Can races co-exist with other races?

What kind of herp-dee-derp question is that?

Not only can people of different races co-exist, but they often live together, get married to each other, have babies together, and raise them to adulthood together.
Maybe the OP is confusing the words race and culture. Not like it wouldn't make the question any less nonsensical.


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01 Oct 2011, 10:13 pm

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We are all humans. What other races?:

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Thank you thats how I see it we are all HUMANS what other races :?:



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01 Oct 2011, 10:35 pm

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Plus me mother would get up set if I married a Russian a crow American Indian or a English women which all three are rivals of Germans Irish and Cherokee has nothing to do with race has everything to do with my family its just how we are.


The thing is, the Irish aren't really the rivals of the English, not even in England itself. Most of the time we're neighbours and close allies. Only the most bitter republicans are really any different.

We've even mostly stopped telling "Irish jokes". :)



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01 Oct 2011, 10:37 pm

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Plus me mother would get up set if I married a Russian a crow American Indian or a English women which all three are rivals of Germans Irish and Cherokee has nothing to do with race has everything to do with my family its just how we are.


The thing is, the Irish aren't really the rivals of the English, not even in England itself. Most of the time we're neighbours and close allies. Only the most bitter republicans are really any different.

We've even mostly stopped telling "Irish jokes". :)


Oh that made me very happy I didnt know that :D



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01 Oct 2011, 10:58 pm

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Oh that made me very happy I didnt know that :D


"Now... Mick and Paddy..."

:lol:



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01 Oct 2011, 11:01 pm

Tequila wrote:
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Oh that made me very happy I didnt know that :D


"Now... Mick and Paddy..."

:lol:


Indeed :D



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02 Oct 2011, 8:16 pm

I live in Canada. I have an aunt who is Japanese, a cousin (her son) who is half-Japanese, and two step-nieces who are half-black, and my great-grandmother was a Native. We have no problem whatsoever with their differences. I really don't know the reason why but statistically Canada is more tolerant of race, religion and sexuality than the US, but they want everyone else in the world to think our country is boring and the climate is too cold so they'll live there instead. :roll: Then people of different races in the US are shocked and puzzled when vandals write "You are NOT welcome here" on the outside of their homes or they get arrested for no reason while being in a "white" neighborhood. I read once that most Canadians are "okay" with Americans, but I'm not. :x Sadly, that makes me almost like an American. :(



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02 Oct 2011, 8:33 pm

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I live in Canada. I have an aunt who is Japanese, a cousin (her son) who is half-Japanese, and two step-nieces who are half-black, and my great-grandmother was a Native. We have no problem whatsoever with their differences. I really don't know the reason why but statistically Canada is more tolerant of race, religion and sexuality than the US, but they want everyone else in the world to think our country is boring and the climate is too cold so they'll live there instead. :roll: Then people of different races in the US are shocked and puzzled when vandals write "You are NOT welcome here" on the outside of their homes or they get arrested for no reason while being in a "white" neighborhood. I read once that most Canadians are "okay" with Americans, but I'm not. :x Sadly, that makes me almost like an American. :(


your country has 10 million less people then the state of California... that a country of 300 million make it work as beautifully as we've been able to is a miracle.

that a country of 30 million with barely any minorities at all brags about it's tolerance when it is barely tested is not brag-worthy... you have as many minorities (as a percent of your total population) as we have African Americans... and that's not including
Asians or Hispanics.


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03 Oct 2011, 5:21 am

Races can't even get along among their own kind.



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03 Oct 2011, 11:26 am

I believe it is possible for races to co-exist, some people in this world like me are completely accepting of other people no matter what their race or nationality is. But the sad truth is the majority of people in this world aren't accepting and they have a tendacy to get violent and cruel with other races. That's what leads to things like war and genocide.

All the anti-racism propaganda in schools doesn't seem to help because the majority of those students learn to be racist from their families who always show a particular attitude towards a certain group of people. I think only a handful of people in this world are prone to become accepting and tolerant of other people's difference.



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03 Oct 2011, 11:29 am

CaptainTrips222 wrote:
Races can't even get along among their own kind.
Hahaha good point.



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03 Oct 2011, 11:36 am

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We are all humans. What other races? ruveyn

"Race" is not a Biological Classification. Humans are classified as Homo Sapiens Sapiens, according to Linnean Taxonomy...

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Hominidae
Tribe: Hominini
Genus: Homo
Species: H. sapiens

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While biological scientists sometimes use the concept of race to make practical distinctions among fuzzy sets of traits, others in the scientific community suggest that the idea of race is often used by the general public in a naive or simplistic way. Among humans, race has no taxonomic significance; all people belong to the same hominid subspecies, Homo sapiens sapiens. Regardless of the extent to which race exists, the word "race" is problematic and may carry negative connotations. Social conceptions and groupings of races vary over time, involving folk taxonomies that define essential types of individuals based on perceived sets of traits. Scientists consider biological essential-ism obsolete, and generally discourage racial explanations for collective differentiation in both physical and behavioral traits.


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03 Oct 2011, 11:47 am

Fnord wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
We are all humans. What other races? ruveyn

"Race" is not a Biological Classification. Humans are classified as Homo Sapiens Sapiens, according to Linnean Taxonomy...

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Hominidae
Tribe: Hominini
Genus: Homo
Species: H. sapiens

Wikipedia wrote:
While biological scientists sometimes use the concept of race to make practical distinctions among fuzzy sets of traits, others in the scientific community suggest that the idea of race is often used by the general public in a naive or simplistic way. Among humans, race has no taxonomic significance; all people belong to the same hominid subspecies, Homo sapiens sapiens. Regardless of the extent to which race exists, the word "race" is problematic and may carry negative connotations. Social conceptions and groupings of races vary over time, involving folk taxonomies that define essential types of individuals based on perceived sets of traits. Scientists consider biological essential-ism obsolete, and generally discourage racial explanations for collective differentiation in both physical and behavioral traits.
+1. Thanks for saving me the typing Fnord :D .



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03 Oct 2011, 12:04 pm

I just thought of an interesting theory. If you were to, lets say, "remove" all the humans on this planet and only keep one male and female from each race and force them to mate together to produce offspring, and then the offspring were forced to mate with each other when they became old enough, would that cure the issue of racism by making the human species only one mixed race of brown people with dark hair?



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03 Oct 2011, 1:26 pm

GreySun369 wrote:
I just thought of an interesting theory. If you were to, lets say, "remove" all the humans on this planet and only keep one male and female from each race and force them to mate together to produce offspring, and then the offspring were forced to mate with each other when they became old enough, would that cure the issue of racism by making the human species only one mixed race of brown people with dark hair?

The answer to that question lies in the realm of speculative fiction. In other words, we will never know the answer as a fact.


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03 Oct 2011, 1:26 pm

GreySun369 wrote:
I just thought of an interesting theory. If you were to, lets say, "remove" all the humans on this planet and only keep one male and female from each race and force them to mate together to produce offspring, and then the offspring were forced to mate with each other when they became old enough, would that cure the issue of racism by making the human species only one mixed race of brown people with dark hair?


the offspring wouldn't necessarily be "forced" they'd probably just procreate. none of this would work if after a few generations, you don't then force marriage or some institution that guarantee's the mixing up not just of races, but of people, groups, neighborhoods, societies, etc. To procreate inside your group takes no effort, unless the opposite sex of child-producing age is of short supply. The whole point is merge groups through some kind of institution, otherwise they inculcate only with their tribe, and that's the easiest way to think poorly of the non-member.

edit: not marriage, but a marriage-like institution with rules of marrying outside your group.


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