Discussions of racism and I don't get along well. I hate discussions that put forth race as an inevitable marker that will divide people.
1.) I firmly believe that a person's appearance cannot be an indicator of worth. I'm opposed to affirmative action.
2.) I support interracial dating.
3.) I support espousing whatever culture you are influenced most by rather than the culture of your color
4.) I support mixing cultures and taking the best of whatever you encounter.
5.) I believe in learning from history's mistakes, not punishing or defining people by a physical resemblance that they share with a victim or aggressor in history.
6.) I believe that the history of the world is a communal history and that pride in the accomplishments of someone that looks like you as opposed to those who have a differing eye-shape or skin shade is egocentric as well as ethnocentric.
7.) I don't think that ethnocentrism has any good manifestations.
My opinions are strong and although people may agree with some of them, as a whole I'm in the minority. I have no idea how I will attempt to write a paper that encompasses all that I think about race but I would like to attempt it. Probably not a good idea.
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