Stingray

You also live in a land with a rich cultural history!

It wasn't me!

Lmaooo!!!! WTF!

You guys just wanna see me get trashed by @Whatthemata

Naaaaah, she is no match for me!

I'm so scared!!!!

You poor thing ...

I do finally see races mingle so much because of the way the world is evolving (global, mobility is increasing, internet, ....) For example : in my family We have white, black, and every possible shade in between. If that is already happening, the trend will inevitably continue. When that happens, race will become an obselete concept. Mind you, that could take ages. I hope ....

Or a banana ..... I always love seeing girls eat bananas..... Or icecreams ....

That is true. But it does not counter my hypothesis that ultimately it can be erased. And it will.

It always baffles me how social constructionists/postmodernists (your argumentation is one) explain it like this. It is like Baron Von Munchausen who lifts himself up from a swamp by his own beard If I follow your logic: all efforts to fight racism are racist. That is stuff of sophists. I do think Bonilla Silva is one - his claims are always true, no matter what. Hence they are unfalsifiable by nature and mere sophistry. I do get where you come from though. It is just that if the marker that constitutes your 'race' is no longr relevant for people - racism as we know it will go away. The funny thing is - and this is what that research suggest - is that people are by nature looking for coalitions. So .... we will create other outgroups inevitably. A true postmodernist would not need any science of course ps: just teasing of course Kieran

No he is talking about the work of Bonilla-Silva http://crs.sagepub.com/content/28/1-2/41.short

Actually, Racism is just one form of ingroup outgroup psychology. If you put the triggers right anything can be used to divide a group in different 'races'. It is not just the colour of your skin. Even more so, it is highly unlikely we have evolved psychological mechanisms to be racist because we never 'met' truly other races (which is biological nonsense btw - there is only one race Homo Sapiens) during our pleistocene past when our mental mechanisms got their shape (which they still have now btw) This is research that kinda shook the whole outlook on racism: http://www.pnas.org/content/98/26/15387.long

Agreed.

Ill show you the way to the forum : Now behave a bit dude and don't be a Ow yes .... Welcome. A bit. I guess....

Lets just think this thread never happened.

I know man. I was away for the weekend

Please don take the Sting out .....

2 friends! ..... Unfaithfull one, you!!

Nah ! It will have to wait till tommorow evening :-) better think of something first !

Yes yes !! Huge family gathering + barbecue + booze Fun + drunk debates I won

someone got banned?

Fookin Dartford. Is that even a real place?