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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin
You asked if we are talking about ethnic cultural differences or purely color cultural differences. I don't know how you can distinguish between the two. They are inter-connected. Why are most people prejudice about a certain race in the first place? It is usually because of their stereotypical views about people of that race. They're not just prejudiced of the group because of the group's skin color. They are prejudiced against the group because they think that people with that particular skin color have certain negative cultural characteristics.
That is pretty much what racism is. It is disliking people of a certian race because of the belief that most or all of the people in that race have certain negative characteristics.
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crime rates and irresponsibility among negroes are a fact of life which must be faced.
-jesse helms writing in the ny times 2/8/81.