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Originally Posted by Sion
bullpuckey!
racism existed long before white people began settling in N. America.
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Surely they didn't invent racism. I mean they created a place, in the United States, where there were several different races and clear racial divisions (initially natives; Europeans, which were often divided amongst themselves as well; and Africans). What I'm trying to say is these ______-American groups, whatever you want to call them, have clear social distinctions which we can't just will away by changing their names. These names were invented to describe existing social groups. That in itself is not necessarily bad or good, it's just a name. It's how we treat the differences, positively (e.g. pride in our diverse heritage) or negatively (e.g. racism), that is important.