Is it possible to maintain and respect cultural heritage and not be a racist

[Drich]

So then is it wrong to honor culture over the pop culture idea of a race neutral soceity where everyone just comes together forgets their past and looks to built a milato future?

What makes you think the two are mutually exclusive?

because to build a tolerant soceity culturally exclusive practices will be done away with. which auguments said culture for the plain vanillia no one is offended soceity

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Race and culture are not the same thing, and can easily be mutually exclusive.

At best your speaking to the exceptions and not the rule.

What is the definition of a "white" person?

someone with Areion/Anglo saxon blood line

Or better yet, what's the definition of a "black" person?

someone with a sub saharan african blood line

How about "Hispanic"?

I believe lation is the current goverment sponsered term.

http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/reic/definitions.asp

My culture as someone who would be considered "white" is nothing like that of a "white" person living in Rich Hill, Missouri (I just watched the documentary).

Your culture is of a anglo American, which is different from African american. Which is again different from Asian american or Anglo-italian or Asian-Korean.

What about someone from Haiti vs. someone from Zambia?

Same as above Race-then country of orgin defines one's particular role/culture in a given community.

You'd consider them both "black", probably, but what do their cultures have in common? Similarly, what race are Filipino people?

Philipino people are considered asian/pacific Islanders.

Like it or not carox, we are subdivided into race, and it is well documented, and supported by this goverment.

My question is, why arent we allowed to perserve our differences even if it offends others?

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Drich, suppose I spend a year coming to your house on a daily basis, walking in your front door, taking a shit on your dining table, and then leaving. Not only is there no law against my doing this, there are actually laws that enable me, encourage me, and reward me for doing it. Astonishingly, there are also laws which not only prevent you from trying to stop me, but offer fines and imprisonment if you even complain about my actions.

At the end of the year, through the work of other people tired of having me shit all over their furniture, laws are enacted which not only make it a crime for me to continue with my behavior (prolly called something like, 'The Malicious Fecal Distribution Act') and require me to clean and disinfect your table, but also give you first crack and a discounted rate on cleaning supplies and bog rolls for the rest of your life.

THAT is why there are reserved seats at the table.

Boru

what you don't seem to understand and what you want to default to is the way things use to be where one race or culture was dominate over all others. I am asking why not allow those who want to subdivide into race/culture purity seekers do so?let those who want to co mingle do so and see what happens. rather than try and force everyone to get along.

In your instance, if you culture demanded that you poop on tables, then if their were enough of you in said culture you would want to move to a villiage or town were pooping on tables wasn't met with my culture's baseball bat to the face policy for table poopers. That way your people could poop on each other's tables without getting pummled everyday and we could both live the way we want.

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I hate the idea that the past is worth clinging to. It is worth remembering as a history lesson, but it is not worth clinging to it if it props up bigotry, sexism and xenophobia. Words like "cultural" and "tradition" and "religion" are not looking forward, those are all excuses to cling to the past. What should be important to humanity is fostering civility, not protecting an ego.

what of those who do not want to be doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past in every subsequent generation? Will they be made to live as you command?