Ethnic Humor, racial 'jokes'

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oakapple said:
Laurie, I assume you mean because you are Scottish, that you had people make jokes about you( in England ) surprising, but then I expect Scottish people may well be anti-English now and then.As we are all British, this is not really racist is it?
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Scotland and England are not races, they are countries.
The US/America is not a race, it's a country.

Within a country, there are residents of various races.

Making generalizations, jokes, or even negative remarks about a country/place has nothing to do with racism. It might be poor taste, or rude, or offensive - but it's not racism.
 

A favorite Chris Rock line is, " I'm a millionaire and whites still don't want to be be me". I think Chris said that, maybe it's one of the other *******.
 

"Laurie, it's not possible to make racist comments about America - America is not a race, it's a country."
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I didn't say America, I said Americans. I regard Americans like most of the developed peoples these days, as a multi cultural race.
"There is nothing gentle about racism or sexism."
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If I tell my friend Chuck Bouchard in San Antonio that I don't know why he keeps drinking that crappy Bud, everyone knows Americans can''t make beer, and he retorts that he can't see how a Goddamnmed limey has the all fired nerve to speak on a subject he knows nothing about that is not a racist war!
"Laurie, I assume you mean because you are Scottish, that you had people make jokes about you( in England ) surprising, but then I expect Scottish people may well be anti-English now and then.As we are all British, this is not really racist is it?"
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I am no Scottish, and let's not try to dress it up. I I make a joke about the English, or the Irish, or the Poles, I am being racist, and so is anybody else.
 
I have very seldom heard racist remarks and when I did it was usually a black that used it. I have found that young blacks are some of the most racist people around. History should not be ignored so that it is PC, it is just that history and while some of it isnt pretty it is a part of what shaped this nation and the people in it. Lets quit being pc and start judging on a persons merits and character ratherthan skin color. Lets stop living up to stereotypes and start trying to make ourselves and the world a better place
 
The strongest racist remarks are seen in changes in today's language structure. Anyone can recognize a noun, but today they are much more sophisticated. They include but not limited sarcasm like, like, she was over there like, are you saying that, not. Change of passive verbs to the active form making nouns verbs. Rap music is a rich enviorment for study, but my favorite is the urban dictionary. It a Pew/ Pew world and like if you want to keep up learn the talk and walk the, put that big ass in reverse.
 
bill16652 said:
I have very seldom heard racist remarks and when I did it was usually a black that used it. I have found that young blacks are some of the most racist people around. History should not be ignored so that it is PC, it is just that history and while some of it isnt pretty it is a part of what shaped this nation and the people in it. Lets quit being pc and start judging on a persons merits and character ratherthan skin color. Lets stop living up to stereotypes and start trying to make ourselves and the world a better place
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While I know there are black people who are racists, I do not believe that the only racist remarks you’re heard are from blacks. Come ON.

“PC” and age (youth) have nothing to do with the issue.
 
rt3 said:
The strongest racist remarks are seen in changes in today's language structure. Anyone can recognize a noun, but today they are much more sophisticated. They include but not limited sarcasm like, like, she was over there like, are you saying that, not. Change of passive verbs to the active form making nouns verbs. Rap music is a rich enviorment for study, but my favorite is the urban dictionary. It a Pew/ Pew world and like if you want to keep up learn the talk and walk the, put that big ass in reverse.
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huh? :confused:

Maybe you can go back and answer the question I asked (last sentence in the opening post). I'm not understanding why that is so hard for some people.
 
tnthomas said:

Regional humor?



For some, silence may just be avoidence of an uncomfortable situation.
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I'm going to guess here that they refer to how First Nations people used to sell salmon on a sort of black market to white folks. I remember many times when I was a little kid, my aunt and uncle either doing or mentioning it. First Nations people were allowed to fish (probably without license) but they weren't allowed to sell what they caught.
 
Actually the only context I have witnessed re smoke salmon jokes in a supposedly First People's dialect, centred around mocking the ways in which some aboriginal individuals spoke with the cultural practice of smoking salmon thrown in for a "laugh." Imho no knowledge of black market practices even entered the equation. The contempt was obvious. It speaks to a willingness to view a particular ethnicity as less than others. This is Canada's dirty little secret. We seem to be primarily colour blind except for our indigenous people. We cry out against any injustice perpetuated on other minorities. Yet this racism against First Nation Canadians is still systemic. Shame on us! Racial humour is a first step down a very slippery slope.
 
applecruncher said:
huh? :confused:

Maybe you can go back and answer the question I asked (last sentence in the opening post). I'm not understanding why that is so hard for some people.
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(with hands on hips, and moving head from left to right, with a word pronounced at each apex.) HMMMMMM.......{left} I........{rt.} don't {left} think {rt.} so!........ Nothins that black and white honey.
 
as you cut off the Hispanic in the grocery store line and he calls you a mofo gringo in Spanish with a big smile and you reply Que dice? and his face turns white.
 
rt3 said:
(with hands on hips, and moving head from left to right, with a word pronounced at each apex.) HMMMMMM.......{left} I........{rt.} don't {left} think {rt.} so!........ Nothins that black and white honey.
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Meaning what, exactly? And I am not your honey.

(And we already know your answer to the question posed in the OP.)
 
Let's get our definitions to match fact. There are only really only three recognized races. Discussions about English, Polish, German, Russian, and all other nations are NOT racist. It may be discrimination based upon nationality but it is not racist. If your subject is *****id, Mongolian, or Caucasian it is racist. http://blog.world-mysteries.com/science/how-many-major-races-are-there-in-the-world/
 

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