I've been to Burma/ myanmar by myself. that's a place you don't go by yourself. you don't get mugged you get missing.
say I get mugged or worse. are Burmese people now all criminals or was I victimized by a criminal/ group of criminals.
the horrible thing about racism latent or otherwise is that it's a human cancer and sadly it does exactly what it's supposed to do- it's a mantra against a race or races spread by small minds who fear a boogeyman that a small mind told them to fear.
racism only exists because you choose to allow it to.
Honestly, I don't even know what racism means anymore. PC nuts have everyone so brainwashed and paranoid over this shit, it's crippling.
As a kid I learned I couldn't use the word "Mexican" in
any context: positive, negative, or indifferent. Unless I was describing a restaurant that had salsa, that was ok. I could talk about, say,
Mexico's little league team, but I couldn't refer to the "Mexican" pitcher, etc. That was racist. To this day, I cringe when I hear a white person say it in public. Brainwashed.
So now we use "Hispanic" to describe a person from Mexico (et al.). Canadian, Italian, Japanese, Brazilian, Australian, African, Cuban, German, etc., all perfectly fine. The dude from Mexico, however: Hispanic.
Just for clarity, my school/city was predominantly Mexican, so it wasn't like there were lots of white racists stigmatizing the word in a derogatory fashion. It was always a defensive thing, in my experience, without (intentional, anyway) provocation. Far back as I can remember.
Any Hispanics from Mexico in the house care to chime in? What is it about the word? Is it like this outside of Califas as well? Wolfox, you know the culture, help me out.
