(February 9, 2015 at 6:45 am)pocaracas Wrote: Human races exist... people, get over it.
And, statistically speaking, some races excel on some tasks, while others excel on other tasks... may be a cultural thing, though, but the correlation is there.
That said, I have no problem if you apply a statistically relevant stereotype, like... blacks have longer penises than any other race.
But the wrong kind of stereotype grinds gears.... like... native americans are dumber than asians.
Apart from that... anything is game.
Did you know that, in portuguese, the polite word to describe a black person is "negro" (same word as in english, but the 'e' reads a bit like eh and all 'o's at the end of words sound like a curt 'u')? And if you use the translation of "black" (preto), you get the non-politically correct version!
These are just two words that describe the same color we use when painting... and with paint, no one cares if you use preto or negro.
We have another color that also gets two words to describe it, red: encarnado, vermelho.... yeah, none of them are even remotely similar to the spanish rojo, or the french rouje. Although the portuguese "roxo" (reads like rho-chu) is purple... Kinda makes you wonder that we went a bit sideways when we decided to name colors, compared with the rest of Europe.
Human races *don't* exist, at least in the categories we recognize. Hindi's are Indo-Europeans. The Japanese don't seem to be related to anyone, nor or the Basque. In the real world, you most often find very fuzzy borders. There is more genetic diversity in one African village than all of medieval England - a sequence will tell you that two people from the same African village are more different than any two people in England. It's CULTURALLY DEFINED and exists for the purpose of discrimination. Do you think on Japanese forms the Nihonjin check Asian? In India, your religion is registered with the government and you have to fill out forms to change it - it's their version of race.
It's crap and I don't subscribe to it. My race is human - you can labelled yourself however you like, it's good with me.
My book, a setting for fantasy role playing games based on Bantu mythology: Ubantu
