Do you know who you are? (1 Viewer)

[Wrigley]

I Hate Americans 

 

[Long Ball Larry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ13_vMXyCk&feature=youtu.be&t=5

 

[cockroach]

I would imagine finding out you are like people you consider foreign, or not like people you identify with, would be a cause for reflection for most.

There will be idiots too far gone to be able to accept this... unless you make this part of being born.  Put this report in with birth certificates and people might grow with one less excuse to hate.  

Edited 1 hour ago by matuski

I don't get it.  Are you trying to insult me?   NM, I don't care.

People don't dislike other groups of people solely because of ethnic differences, but because of cultural ones.  Very few people would behave as those in this commercial which is attempting to sell you a product/service.  

 

[Christo]

I'm good with anything but Texan. Any of that ******* DNA and I'd go postal on your asses.

 

[Tick]

That was a weird video.  I can't relate to identifying myself as a particular nationality in racial sense.  I mean, I'm an American, and I certainly view myself that way, but there's nothing genetic about it.  Somebody who immigrated here a few days ago is potentially just as American as I am -- I DGAF what our respective DNA results show.  It's probably kind of telling that the video mainly featured Europeans.

I agree that this likely wouldn't get the same results from Americans.  We're used to being mutts.  1/2 Irish, 1/4 German, 1/4 mixed up western European... 

And that's ignoring history and how much mixing went on.  Vikings settled in France, became Normans, conquered England, conquered Sicily and southern Italy, went on some Crusades... Byzantines moved people from the Balkans to Turkey when the population was low... steppe tribes moved west and south in waves... Egypt got taken over by Nubians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Arab captured slave soldiers from all over, French... Armenians become Roman emperors... Genghis Khan impregnates the whole world... Jewish diaspora... it's all a mess anyway.

 

[Brony]

I'm just glad they didn't pull out those stupid stats like "All humans share 99% of the same DNA".  Yeah, no ####.

 

[joffer]

People don't dislike other groups of people solely because of ethnic differences, but because of cultural ones.  Very few people would behave as those in this commercial which is attempting to sell you a product/service.  

Are you kidding?

 

[cockroach]

Are you kidding?

Oh, you must be one of the straight up racists.   They exist too, but they are more rare and I don't consider them people.

 

[joffer]

Oh, you must be one of the straight up racists.   They exist too, but they are more rare and I don't consider them people.

alrighty then 

 

[matuski]

People don't dislike other groups of people solely because of ethnic differences, but because of cultural ones.  Very few people would behave as those in this commercial which is attempting to sell you a product/service.  

C'mon.

How do you identify people of different cultures?  

 

[matuski]

That was a weird video.  I can't relate to identifying myself as a particular nationality in racial sense.  I mean, I'm an American, and I certainly view myself that way, but there's nothing genetic about it.  Somebody who immigrated here a few days ago is potentially just as American as I am -- I DGAF what our respective DNA results show.  It's probably kind of telling that the video mainly featured Europeans.

Yea, I guess living in a country where everyone came from somewhere else within relatively few generations this wouldn't be as ground breaking.

To people who grow up believing their entire bloodline is of a particular place or people, this might hit a little harder.

For people here, I would imagine finding out you have 5-10% Middle Eastern DNA might open some eyes pretty wide.

 

[pollardsvision]

I've known my whole life that I'm just some boring mix of European heritage. I'd love to know I came from something more interesting. 

In fact, I changed my name to Pedro at work during the "transracial" hubbub with that NAACP leader a year or so ago. I've always wanted to be Mexican. Although, Pedro went into hiding after the election.

 

[cockroach]

C'mon.

How do you identify people of different cultures?  

Their customs, what symbols they use, basically their day to day behavior.

 

[cockroach]

For people here, I would imagine finding out you have 5-10% Middle Eastern DNA might open some eyes pretty wide.

No, because people here don't hate Middle Eastern people because they have brown skin and unibrows.  They hate them because of the violence they see in Islam, how they treat women and how they wipe their butt with their hands and want to haggle prices and wear sheets and all the other CULTURAL differences. 

They don't have a problem with that "Persian" business owner they know from the country club with the hairy knuckles that likes rub your back too much and sits too close in the sauna.

 

[Kafka]

Oh, you must be one of the straight up racists.   They exist too, but they are more rare and I don't consider them people.

So then, actors?

 

[matuski]

Their customs, what symbols they use, basically their day to day behavior.

How do you get to that point without noticing what they look like?

 

[IvanKaramazov]

For people here, I would imagine finding out you have 5-10% Middle Eastern DNA might open some eyes pretty wide.

For some people it might, but that's completely irrational.  My family is German on both sides.  I don't feel like the wrong side won WWII or anything stupid like that.  I'm also not a particular fan of modern day Germany.  I just can't wrap my mind around caring what my ancestry is.  

 

[matuski]

For some people it might, but that's completely irrational.  My family is German on both sides.  I don't feel like the wrong side won WWII or anything stupid like that.  I'm also not a particular fan of modern day Germany.  I just can't wrap my mind around caring what my ancestry is.  

I am speaking to those who for the wrong reasons or innocently (subconsciously) hold a bias towards a group of people finding out that they are of those people.

For most, I doubt this would be an issue. 

eta - and that is the point, it exposes the irrational fears/bias/preconceptions.