@zarathustra13 -- Merely stating a fact and pointing out that the perception of race and tribal thinking allows the idea of racism to continue. Complex issue, even though the underlying concept is simple.

@zarathustra13 -- Aha! From the wording in the original post, your intent was not particularly clear to me. This last comment made it obvious, and my answer would certainly be, no.

        Some Chinese girls have whiter skin than I've ever seen. Of course they avoid the sun like the plague.

you are using a different definition then the one presented for the basis of the pool.
Thats not how that works.

Funny ....never even heard that term until it was pushed out there by the left. More attempts to shame and suppress free speech.

@Mikie1977 Actually it has nothing to do with suppressing free speech. The freedom of speech keeps the government from censoring you. But what you say openly or in public forum is completely open to criticism, and if you believe in the bad ideologies, people have every right to fight against you and tell you to leave.

I wouldn't dismiss fears so easily as you do. The right fear can save your life in extreme cases and more often it just make you do the safest thing at any given time.

@Algernon awareness is a substitute, fear is a mind killer. Try it, you'll like it.

@HankSherman the level of racism that there is today in the Western world is by no mean a fear and for all that matter not even a mild awareness. Antiracism reins and it has become a dogma based on good intention perhaps but still an agenda based on the lie that races are social constructs.

@Algernon what? I admit that my fifth grade education is a hinderance. Are you rationalizing or trying to justify racism?

@Algernon -- Race is a social construct. We are a single species displaying regional variations at this stage of our evolution.

@JustLynnie Not really racist, just bigoted toward, unless of course they continue to breed within their group of Trump supporters.

The colour of their skin is a good indication for people action though. Very useful if you lack the time to personally know everyone in details and for a long enough span of time.

please explain how?

haha, where are you from? The Wonderlands?

@Algernon If that's what you want to call the real world, sure.

@Gohan the real world is a world made of races among other things. The fact that you don't like humanity to be divided into races, among any other possible divisions you can think of, doesn't make races any less real.

@Algernon If you want to be racist, do it, just don't do it at the expense of anyone else's freedom or life. Cast away the old ways and embrace a world free of hate. Hate isn't needed. Division isn't needed.

@Gohan -- And should he continue along these lines, he isn't needed. I know, that was snarky, but I've been reading his input and the bile has been pooling.

So you have decided that because a minority group member MIGHT be racist, that you will write off an entire ethnic group? That's as racist as the racism you are offended by.

@citronella I've only dated about three Hispanic men. had the same problems with all of them. Now it's just a personal thing, after a few bad experiences with them I'm just not interested in dating them anymore. If they're not racist their mother, father, family or their friends probably are. it's just too many problems/ risky for me. If an African American man said that it was too complicated to date a white woman and that he prefers to date black people I would not call that racist.

@Kojaksmom finally someone who can see the naked king!

@Kojaksmom -- And I've only married one Hispanic woman and have never regretted it. I suggest that a bit of objective introspection is in order.

@evidentialist it is different for women.

@Kojaksmom -- Not really, though there is that possibility, particularly for those who have been raised in the US. I lived in Mexico for several years and have traveled extensively in Central and South America. There is a thing called 'machismo' that does set a tone generally in relationships between men and women, but it varies greatly in different locales, even in any given country. I can see this as a definite negative in relationships for American born and raised women. It is also a part of Latino culture that is thankfully dying pretty fast in most areas. However, understand that this is a cultural issue and has nothing to do with that nonexistent race idea.

My wife is fully capable in the self sufficiency department, independent, intelligent, strong, opinionated, and certainly not the stereotypical Mexican woman from her generation. She likes to joke about finding a tolerant gringo who was able to accept her as she was, otherwise she would have flown solo.

Me too!

That's a debunked fallacy. It's even got a name: the Levontin's fallacy, from a time passed by where Genetics were still at its infancy.

Refusal of the truth is the real bigotry.

You are a fool if you don't take colour into some level of account when dealing with strangers.

@Algernon At least i'd be a kind fool! Thats all that matters to me.

@Algernon I don't understand your comment 'you are a fool if you don't take colour into some level of account when dealing with strangers" Maybe it's because I live in a multicultural country and work with people with diverse cultures. I feel all the richer for it. Why is it foolish to consider colour when dealing with strangers? Unless there is a language barrier I simply don't understand what you are getting at.

@MsDemeanour Did I say at any time thtyou were foolish? I don't remember being that harsh if I did say it I apologise but still I take people as I find them ok with me I am ok with them difference is useful if there were no difference we would not have new cuisine etc.