Question - Why do people talk about different races when they clearly mean different ethnicities and
... cultures? Isnt there only one human race? And they refer to darker people as being of a different race ... for example. Why do people do this, I
... cultures? Isn't there only one human race? And they refer to darker people as being of a different race ... for example. Why do people do this, I find it offensive? Okay, more detail; I mean that I want to know why and how it became so common to pose humanity as if it were different races contained within, rather than 'the human race', for example.
or:... cultures? Isn't there only one human race? And they refer to darker people as being of a different race ... for example. Why do people do this, I find it offensive? Okay, more detail; I mean that I want to know why and how it became so common to pose humanity as if it were different races contained within, rather than 'the human race', for example.
or:it's just a way to say it, figure of speech some might say, but it is because it's the exact same conceptfor example, we say human race to seperate us from alien races and others. with time, racism has grown and we now say asian race, for example, we are differentiating between them and other races, or types.
or:Many people talk without knowing what they mean. It is very common for people to use insulting words for other people just because they don't know any other words to identify them. In Russia people hate gypsies. They might call them by several names and they don't know exactly what is wrong with them, but they hate them anyway. Here is a recent event: englishrussia.com/2016/05/31/russian-police-destroys-biggest-gypsy-village-in-russia/ Read all the comments carefully.
