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  • How racist are you - Channel 4
     OP - October 30, 2009, 08:58 PM
    Has anybody watched The Event: How Racist Are You? on Channel 4 the other day?
    What are your thoughts?
    Here is the link: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-event-how-racist-are-you/4od#3005915
  • Re: How racist are you - Channel 4
     Reply #1 - October 30, 2009, 08:59 PM
    Didn't watch it - will later - but there are TWO things I really HATE!

    1. Racism.

    2. Double Standards.
  • Re: How racist are you - Channel 4
     Reply #2 - October 31, 2009, 01:42 AM
    Everyone is subconsciously racially biased. The effort is to consciously change, or at least suppress them.
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  • Re: How racist are you - Channel 4
     Reply #3 - October 31, 2009, 01:44 AM
    Quote from: Kenan on October 30, 2009, 08:58 PM
    Has anybody watched The Event: How Racist Are You? on Channel 4 the other day?
    What are your thoughts?
    Here is the link: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-event-how-racist-are-you/4od#3005915


    I didnt enjoy it, I dont think the programme quite went according to plan either..
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  • Re: How racist are you - Channel 4
     Reply #4 - October 31, 2009, 01:49 AM
    Quote from: IsLame on October 31, 2009, 01:44 AM
    I didnt enjoy it, I dont think the programme quite went according to plan either..


    What was the purpose of the program?
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  • Re: How racist are you - Channel 4
     Reply #5 - October 31, 2009, 02:02 AM
    An American lady that came to the UK to show xenophobia in action, by splitting a group of people by eye colour treating them differently and then turning them onto one another.  Brits being Brits, the experiment didnt work as well as it had previously done in Australia & USA, as they groups saw throught the most obvious (and imo not so subtle) exercise
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  • Re: How racist are you - Channel 4
     Reply #6 - October 31, 2009, 04:00 AM
    Quote from: Hassan on October 30, 2009, 08:59 PM
    Didn't watch it - will later - but there are TWO things I really HATE!

    1. Racism.

    2. Double Standards.


    One does have to point out that Islam isn't a race - the number of times I've been called a racist because of my criticisms of Islam is far too many to list.

    What I can't stand are people who make 'moral equivalence' arguments; my bad is less bad than your bad which automatically makes me superior. Watch any muslim ramble on about comparing non-Muslim's in Muslim countries but ignore to address the fact that what happened 500-800 or 1000 years ago is of zero relevance today.
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  • Re: How racist are you - Channel 4
     Reply #7 - October 31, 2009, 08:07 AM
    Anyone who believes in any kind of taxonomic concept of 'race' is a racist...regardless.
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  • Re: How racist are you - Channel 4
     Reply #8 - October 31, 2009, 09:36 AM
    Quote from: Hassan on October 30, 2009, 08:59 PM
    Didn't watch it - will later - but there are TWO things I really HATE!

    1. Racism.

    2. Double Standards.

    What exactly do racism and double standards mean to you?

    Quote from: Tommy on October 31, 2009, 01:42 AM
    Everyone is subconsciously racially biased. The effort is to consciously change, or at least suppress them.

     Afro
    I prefer to call that trait "in-group favouritism and out-group distrust" (because it doesn?t exclusively relate to race). Probably a legacy of our Evolution.

    Quote from: Homer on October 31, 2009, 08:07 AM
    Anyone who believes in any kind of taxonomic concept of 'race' is a racist...regardless.

    We probably all originated in Africa hence the very concept of "race" is meaningless.


  • Re: How racist are you - Channel 4
     Reply #9 - October 31, 2009, 03:08 PM
    Quote from: Homer on October 31, 2009, 08:07 AM
    Anyone who believes in any kind of taxonomic concept of 'race' is a racist...regardless.


    No, that's being racialist..
    I did an anthropology class on race and there are distinctions between the shape of the skull and jaw...but tbh there are more differences between men and women skeletal remains then between races..but regardless there is still a difference.

    Check the table out in this site if anyone's interested: http://www.redwoods.edu/Instruct/AGarwin/anth_6_ancestry.htm

    The images below are the negroid and caucasoid...but there is also the mongoloid and a recent addition of Australoid.
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    Their eyes real close together. Eyebrow ridges. Big, furry hands and feet. 'I believe God created me in one day.'
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  • Re: How racist are you - Channel 4
     Reply #10 - October 31, 2009, 04:13 PM
    Quote from: Kenan on October 31, 2009, 09:36 AM

    I prefer to call that trait "in-group favouritism and out-group distrust"



    Yeah that's what I'd call it too. It makes sense based on our evolution. We are naturally a very xenophobic species.

    Do you remember that experiment which some psychology clinics held, that showed that we all have a subconscious stereotype for all races?

    I think the experiment went something like where there were few groups of professionals (teachers, lawyers, doctors, etc.) and they all claimed they were not at all racist. Then they were made to sit in front of a TV with a device that had a green and a red button. The green button symbolized 'true' and red symbolized 'false' I think. In the TV they were flashed several hundred pictures of different people of all races. In the beginning the pictures consisted of people of different cultures with a family, and in the business world etc, but what the test takers didn't realize is that near the end of the slide show, the pics became negative stereotypes (like associating black people with jail, or Asians as communists, etc). The test results showed that pretty much 95% of all the people in the group voted true to those stereotypes--but they didn't realize it.

    I just briefly explained the above from memory, but if anyone can find the actual details of the experiments, I'd appreciate it.
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  • Re: How racist are you - Channel 4
     Reply #11 - October 31, 2009, 06:55 PM
    Quote from: Humra on October 31, 2009, 03:08 PM
    The images below are the negroid and caucasoid...but there is also the mongoloid and a recent addition of Australoid.

    So why did our negroid ancestors have this protuding jaw and protuding teeth?  Why did we lose it?
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  • Re: How racist are you - Channel 4
     Reply #12 - October 31, 2009, 09:50 PM
    We lost it because of living in caves during the ice age in Europe and Asia. It's bloody dark in them there caves and our ancestors kept walking face first into the walls.
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  • Re: How racist are you - Channel 4
     Reply #13 - October 31, 2009, 10:29 PM
    Quote from: osmanthus on October 31, 2009, 09:50 PM
    We lost it because of living in caves during the ice age in Europe and Asia. It's bloody dark in them there caves and our ancestors kept walking face first into the walls.


     Cheesy
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  • Re: How racist are you - Channel 4
     Reply #14 - November 02, 2009, 08:51 AM
    Quote from: IsLame on October 31, 2009, 06:55 PM
    So why did our negroid ancestors have this protuding jaw and protuding teeth?  Why did we lose it?


    There's a load of theories floating around, but nothing conclusive as far as I know. I talked to my tutor who is an Anthropologist and he told me that it's difficult to study the area without being called a racist. I think this may have something to do with the society and history of race. Europe enslaved the African people for years, even Gandhi was racist. Because of this history many people don't like the idea of races, and try to ignore it, some embrace it and go a little overboard ( my cousins  Roll Eyes ).

    Gandhi once said this:

    Quote
    "Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness."


    I'll have a root through the journals and books to see if there is any credible theory behind this.  Smiley

    Quote from: osmanthus on October 31, 2009, 09:50 PM
    We lost it because of living in caves during the ice age in Europe and Asia. It's bloody dark in them there caves and our ancestors kept walking face first into the walls.


     Cheesy Well that sounds pretty conclusive!

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    Their eyes real close together. Eyebrow ridges. Big, furry hands and feet. 'I believe God created me in one day.'
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  • Re: How racist are you - Channel 4
     Reply #15 - November 02, 2009, 01:33 PM
    Quote from: Humra on November 02, 2009, 08:51 AM
    There's a load of theories floating around, but nothing conclusive as far as I know

    Such as?  I cant think of any possibl reasons off the top of my head  Huh?
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