what I can`t stand about racism is that anything you say about a specific culture people deem as racism if you`re white.
How is saying something like asians are good at math, racist?
you would think asians would be proud that they are highly educated compared to North Americans.How is that any way negative? doesnt racism have a certain hatred attached to it or negative connotation?
like if i were to say I in hate asians and their in math bull. that maybe a lil racist with a hint of jealousy. I could see me saying all asians have small dicks as being racist or that they cause all car accidents, but saying theyre good at math is a good thing.
I don`t find people saying that italians are good at cooking as racist. ya we`re good at cooking our food is delicious.
Black people are fast is another one. we`re not saying thats all you can do but if there was a race to the microscopes a black guy would probably beat me there.
In the economic global world we live in where the survival of smaller countries depends on their comparative advantage you would think we would celebrate our differences and what we are good at as separate races.
Society has really twisted as to what racism is and what it isnt.
EddieZilker
Vector A
Positive generalizations can still be racist.
Also, they can sometimes be read as a subtle way of implying something negative. For example, someone could read "Asians are good at math" as code for "Asians are nerdy," and someone could read "blacks are athletic" as code for "black people are only good at physical stuff" or "black people's athletic ability makes up for their low brainpower." Not saying that's what you meant by them, of course.
:p
infiniteJEST
Racism: the cultural theory pertaining to why blacks win races.
FuzzQi
I know, it's like "hey that's racist!"
Implying there are no differences between people of different races
I can explain this stereotype well but I will leave it to Chris Rock
Lagrangian
The Statement that Asians are better at maths than white people is partly a myth. While education in Asian countries have a strong foundation in the Natural sciences, most developed countries still present the work of (white people)Sir Isaac Newton, Gottfried Liebniz, Euler, Lagrange, and Fermat as the foundation of advanced math studies at the college level, GCSE, A-levels, IB, and AP in the US (to name a few). White people have excelled at mathematics since the early greek civilization and even before.
On the other hand, today, Asian countries have developed an efficient system of education (which fits with their population needs) where it is possible to advance quite successfully in the fields of science: the system is mostly comprised of rote-learning schemes and discipline. In the west, we prefer to educate our students to become 'well-rounded' human beings, therefore very little science is enforced as compulsory to complete one's studies in any other given field (most Americans are illiterate in math, partly because they stop learning up to calculus, or even before, they stop at college algebra). In addition, american education cascades the curricula with an array of rubbish classes under the guise of 'liberal arts'. Whilst I happen to strongly disagree with this stance, as I think Americans are wasting their money with nonsense liberal art courses that they don't need, I believe students should have the freedom to pursue any field they wish for.
Fields Medalist winners, mostly comprised of white people.
Another thing, as some of you noticed, in the US there is quite a big misunderstanding on what constitutes as real maths. In the US there is a strong bias towards Mechanics (mostly classical); students here will take two years worth of calculus, while in Euope/UK students learn calculus and spend at most only one year doing mechanics (calculus, classical physics, etc).
Now, in China, i've seen curricula were students begin learning Number theory and Group Theory (Real maths) well into their 2nd year of College. :thepirate
Again, you might see that in certain schools in the US.(Princeton, UCLA, etc ... )
Intellekshual
Don't waste your time justifying yourself, people only hear what they want to hear.
I personally have no prejudice, bias, or discrimination against anyone in particular, I find them all equally untakeable.
