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Originally Posted by TheGame
Err... what makes a person Jamican or Irish? Apparently you feel it's somthig different than what makes a person Canadian or British because you said:
"Insults to Canadians, Americans, Brits based on NATIONALITY are NATIONALIST, not RACIST."
The difference between race in NA and the rest of the world is that we don't base it off of nationality... we base it off of the way a person looks and the way they talk.
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You also are forgetting that in many other countries they are of one race for the most part, and that America is an melting polt of all those who moved from those ethnocentric countries that had thousands of years to develop their own physical attributes. We are all americans, a nation not even 225 years old yet, and we are separated into black and white because we are a country created by many races over a very short period of time.
Race is NOT an illusion, it is scientific fact backed up by just about every scientific book you can imagine. If other nations were to have the same kind of racial integration then you would see all kinds of problems there as well. Look at Germany. Jews are a race and were persecuted for being of their race, not their nationality. Jews don't believe they even have a nationality.
[/quote]Because I'm raised in US I'm black, if I was raised in Jamaca I'd be Jamacain, if I was raised in Africa I'd be African.[/quote]
When you're ancestors where in Africa they were considered black and inferior when they were purchased by the white slavers. They were not just considered African. The slavers saw the physical and cultural differences and made judgements based on them. Do you really think that if the same people who lived in Africa looked exactly like the white slavers, there would have been slavery? I highly doubt it.
I also think you are putting far too much on semantics. The word "black" is used because its simply shorter and easier to say. Just as "white" is easier to say than European American.