Is It Racist To Believe That Everyone Prefers Their Own Race?

[anotheoldgit]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7179799/Morrissey-blasted-claiming-prefers-race.html

[THECORBYLOON]

"Yes we all belong to the human race, but surely a well educated professional is superior to a Bush Man in the Outback?"

It's horses for courses, how long would the "well educated professional" last if lost in the middle of the Outback?

[tonyav]

Is It Racist To Believe That Everyone Prefers Their Own Race?

No.

[jourdain2]

Er --- very old saying. 'Birds of a feather flock together'. Simple as that. It doesn't mean you have to decry birds with different feathers.

[pixie374]

It's just a little insane. Most people won't notice and go by personality and things in common.
It isn't racist to prefer different looks in a partner, as that is genetic and not prejudice.

[andy-hughes]

AOG - // When I choose to support England when they play against India or Pakistani at cricket, am I being Racist, Nationalistic or Islamophobic? //

That, coupled with the text of your OP, tends to underline the submission offered by others - that you don't actually know and understand what the concept of racism actually means.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Why a preference (and a universal one at that) for "your own kind" should be deliberately, or stupidly, misunderstood and described as "racism" is a subject on its own. Their are certainly evolutionary explanations for such local "prejudices", aren't there? And it requires only the slightest intellectual curiosity and imagination to understand the advantages of these "prejudices".

[Jackdaw33]

It goes without saying that people are more likely to gravitate towards those with whom they have something in common than those with nothing. That is not discriminatory.

[Mamyalynne]

Totally acceptable to tell us what he prefers, a bit presumptuous to second guess what others prefer.

Not racist, just misguided.

[naomi24]

No, it isn't racist. People gravitate towards their own. That’s why ex-pats in Spain usually live in ex-pat communities and people from Asia who migrate to the west usually live in Asian communities. As for being attracted to people of other races, physical attributes play a large part. I, for example, don’t find Negroid or Chinese features at all attractive. Just not my type - but then I might not be their type either, and that's fine. Swings and roundabouts.

[anotheoldgit]

andy-hughes

/// That, coupled with the text of your OP, tends to underline the submission offered by others - that you don't actually know and understand what the concept of racism actually means. ///

Does anyone these days when the word 'racism' is banded about so freely these days?

[Zacs-Master]

Yes. We do. You just need to stop demonstrating you don’t.

[bainbrig]

For those of you who think the whole concept of ‘Race’ is a dubious one, I’d suggest ‘Superior’, by Angela Saini.

She argues, persuasively, that ‘race’ has little biological reality, and is in fact a cultural concept.

It is, of course, a convenient hook on which the gormless right-wing can hang their prejudices, and handy to be able to blame a set of ‘alien’ people for the god-awful mess that ‘their’ governments have landed us in.

B

[naomi24]

Anyone who disagrees with Bainbrig is, in his estimation, 'gormless' apparently - everyone that is except me. According to him I'm an 'Idiot'. Hmmmm... not sure if that's better or worse than being 'gormless'. Tut! Wish I was brighter! ;o)

[bainbrig]

When I prefixed my comment by writing “For those of you who think the whole concept of ‘Race’ is a dubious one, I’d suggest ‘Superior’, by Angela Saini” I wasn’t talking to the incurious or the intellectually challenged.

Those of you, indeed those of us, who aspire to more than the bearfight, more than the blissfully ignorant acceptance of whatever propaganda is strewn at our feet, will read Saini and be enlightened. The rest could always use it for their crayon practice.

[andy-hughes]

AOG - // Does anyone these days when the word 'racism' is banded about so freely these days? //

Yes, plenty of people it's not a difficult concept to grasp.

I believe the concept of racism is very simple - to exhibit a hostile attitude to another person or person based purely on their ethnicity.

On that basis, the notion of groups gathering together based on that ethnicity does nothing whatsoever to exhibit, or foster an attitude of hostility to anyone else, except the wilfully offended, who look for negativity everywhere, and if it's not even faintly visible, they simply put it there, and react to their own nonsense.

Morrissey has become one of the most pretentious people on the planet, and he is obviously surrounded by too many people willing to lap up his ludicrous pronouncements instead of telling him to take his head out of the clouds and start making decent records again.

Oh, and while he is about it, he can apologise for the utter drivel that was his autobiography, yards of unbelievable tosh that somehow hypnotised the people at the venerable publishing house Penguin, who are certainly old enough and wise enough to know better.

The rest of us should ignore his utterances for that they are - the ramblings of a self-important attention-seeker whose verbal utterances seek to gain the credibility and weight that his musical offerings have long ceased to exhibit, underlined by his increasing irrelevance as a musician and spokesman for a generation that he was once assumed to be, for reasons I have never remotely understood.

[naomi24]

Bainbrig, you do indeed ... aspire ....

[bainbrig]

The point about being more comfortable with ‘your own kind’ has little to do with skin colour, and far more to do with cultural comfort.

Landing in a foreign land, with largely hostile natives (if this site’s anything to go by), no wonder immigrants stick together! Not only do people talk your language, you have a common history, common cuisine and music, and more.

Often too, a common class. I wouldn’t want to be lumbered with the society of ENGLISH upper-class twits, with whom I have almost nothing in common. (Nor indeed monstrous regiments of “Mrs Bouquet-type women”...)

BB

[Theland]

It's complicated. I have a problem with other cultures diluting my own.
I must be a racist / xenophobe because of my suspicions of racist stereotypes, Muslim terror, black knife crime, black demands for rights over responsibilities.
Yes I prefer my own tribe.
I do not find negroid features attractive, yet I have two ethnic minority people in my family, both with slightly darker skin but otherwise no BAME features. I love them both.
I have acquaintances who are Pakistani Muslim and Indian Sikh, and get on fine with them all.
My Sikh friend is adamant about his approval of caste.