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Steveno Mumbai India
In general if you believe that everyone should do whatever makes them happy in life but you personally wouldn't date out of your race, does that make you a racist?

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solitare Munchen, Bayern Germany
Steveno: In general if you believe that everyone should do whatever makes them happy in life but you personally wouldn't date out of your race, does that make you a racist?


In my book, a 'racist' is someone who wishes, wants to bring harm to another race(ethnic group) or Race be it by physical or biological means. A race or Race wiped out of existence in anyway, by any method is , Imo, a loss for Humankind as a whole, as we were created, separate and truly unique in our collective 'gifts' to make this a better world for all... I do not think that Humankind benefits at all from 'whatever makes you happy' of each individual. Too selfish, too egotistical...too dangerous.
Ambrose2007 Badger, South Dakota USA
solitare: In my book, a 'racist' is someone who wishes, wants to bring harm to another race(ethnic group) or Race be it by physical or biological means. A race or Race wiped out of existence in anyway, by any method is , Imo, a loss for Humankind as a whole, as we were created, separate and truly unique in our collective 'gifts' to make this a better world for all... I do not think that Humankind benefits at all from 'whatever makes you happy' of each individual. Too selfish, too egotistical...too dangerous.


More accurately, a racist is someone who believes that race is a determining factor in their behavior and attitudes. It's possible to be a racist without wishing to exterminate the race in question. Some racists believe in separation, for instance. It's also to be a racist if one believes a particular race is superior by virtue of its race.



lusciousmile Espoo, Etela-Suomen Laani Finland
Ambrose2007: More accurately, a racist is someone who believes that race is a determining factor in their behavior and attitudes. It's possible to be a racist without wishing to exterminate the race in question. Some racists believe in separation, for instance. It's also to be a racist if one believes a particular race is superior by virtue of its race.


Perfect! thumbs up

Someone who mailed me saying i was just 'a black twin who wants to get laid'

Now that's a racist! professor
Ambrose2007 Badger, South Dakota USA
Steveno: In general if you believe that everyone should do whatever makes them happy in life but you personally wouldn't date out of your race, does that make you a racist?


Would depend on your reasons. If didn't want to date them because (for example) you believe that all or most members of that race are evil or stupid, then yes, you're a racist. If, however, you don't want to date members of a particular race for esthetic or emotional reasons (for instance, Nubian princesses intimdate youlaugh), then that wouldn't be racist.wave
Ambrose2007 Badger, South Dakota USA
lusciousmile: Perfect!

Someone who mailed me saying i was just 'a black twin who wants to get laid'

Now that's a racist!


You're a twin?confused wow Two Lushies...now that would be scary...uh oh wow hole laugh wave



lusciousmile Espoo, Etela-Suomen Laani Finland
Ambrose2007: You're a twin? Two Lushies...now that would be scary...


I'm a twin. Some people keep tabs of me, you should too. devil
Ambrose2007 Badger, South Dakota USA
lusciousmile: I'm a twin. Some people keep tabs of me, you should too.


hmmm I suppose someone has to, Lushy.dunno blushing
rizlared Pisa, Tuscany Italy
To limit oneself to dating wholly within your own race is to my mind a display of racism, as the only reason can be be read into such a stance is that you are making an assumption that those outside your race are a lesser person. uk



lusciousmile Espoo, Etela-Suomen Laani Finland
Ambrose2007: I suppose someone has to, Lushy.


I guess so, some people just can't help themselves. laugh

To answer the op, i respect people's preferences, and could understand why say, a muslim, may not want to get involved with a christian. I could also understand, why an american from bel air, may find it hard to date a masai herdsman. Culture is something that exists, and one doesn't always fit with another.

That being said, a racist, is a person who believes they are superior to other people of different races, because of their skin colour.


We have a special breed that findS it odd, for 'a black twin' to want to get laid.


It's a sickness, and i am sorry for them.
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Dawn7z Denver, Colorado USA
In response to: In general if you believe that everyone should do whatever makes them happy in life but you personally wouldn't date out of your race, does that make you a racist?


No I don't think so although I would date outside of my race and have dated a couple of men from different ethnic groups. Really it comes down to motivation. Some people are most attracted to those within their own ethnicity and others might look at the possible ramifications from dating someone from a vastly different culture.
Unfortunately there is still quite a bit of racism that people have to contend with out their and you might have to deal with that. Sometime prejudices within your own family.
RayfromUSA vienne, Rhone-Alpes France
lusciousmile: ...That being said, a racist, is a person who believes they are superior to other people of different races, because of their skin colour.



Isn't it strange how "race" is defined solely on the basis of skin tone. There are plenty of other genetic variables that don't seem to matter. One can be short, tall, thin, fat, whatever, but it is the amount of pigmentation in the skin that defines a "race" and leads to racism.

Personally I think we are all memebers of one big single human race, which includes a lot of variation for all traits.




RayfromUSA vienne, Rhone-Alpes France
rizlared: To limit oneself to dating wholly within your own race is to my mind a display of racism, as the only reason can be be read into such a stance is that you are making an assumption that those outside your race are a lesser person.


Sometimes the reason for such preference isn't really racist.
People learn what constitutes "attractiveness" within their own culture at a young age.

Later they're pretty much stuck with those concepts.

rizlared Pisa, Tuscany Italy
RayfromUSA: Sometimes the reason for such preference isn't really racist.
People learn what constitutes "attractiveness" within their own culture at a young age.

Later they're pretty much stuck with those concepts.


Then maybe they have been brought up with racist overtones.

I have no problem with cultural or even religious differences, but those that have a closed mind for anyone that is not of their race has by that definition to be racist.



omurchu22 Dundalk, Louth Ireland
ive had a wee tipple and cant be too articulate as i would like to be ..not that i ever was, but simply Phwoooarrrr theres lots of single ladies ive seen outside my own colour that i would like to spend a night with , even fewer that ive met and discovered OMG their perfect matches, But

No Unfortunatly i wouldnt go any further as for me Im white, someone i know is brown another is asian and then another is Black ....They wouldnt be who they are if they wernt the colour of their skins and rascist towards someone of another colour and i wouldnt be who i am if if i wasnt rascist towards that same breed

...sorry that blue basturd Sonic the hedgehog is hated by all mummys and daddys of every colour in my part of the world...dont even get me started on yugio doh
rizlared Pisa, Tuscany Italy
omurchu22: ive had a wee tipple and cant be too articulate as i would like to be ..not that i ever was, but simply Phwoooarrrr theres lots of single ladies ive seen outside my own colour that i would like to spend a night with , even fewer that ive met and discovered OMG their perfect matches, But

No Unfortunatly i wouldnt go any further as for me Im white, someone i know is brown another is asian and then another is Black ....They wouldnt be who they are if they wernt the colour of their skins and rascist towards someone of another colour and i wouldnt be who i am if if i wasnt rascist towards that same breed

...sorry that blue basturd Sonic the hedgehog is hated by all mummys and daddys of every colour in my part of the world...dont even get me started on yugio


Better an honest racist than a lying one



pretzelman Las Vegas, Nevada USA
there is no simple answer here.

I would date outside of my race in a new york minute

I would marry outside my race...if I wanted to get married.

HoweverI wouldn't seek out anyone due to their race. I know of Blacks that will only date whites andvice versa. I know those that only date their own race. I am more readily attracted to hispanics and whites, but I am not exclusive.e an oriental...until I could account for all my cats though!!













Just Kidding...I had to say something stupid...it's what I do!!



PietroPaoloV Göteborg, Vastra Gotaland Sweden
Steveno: In general if you believe that everyone should do whatever makes them happy in life but you personally wouldn't date out of your race, does that make you a racist?


No, but it makes one looks mighty self-crippled in mind.
When it hits, it hits, and it can hit whenever, wherever.

There is not a single country in this world where there is not a beautiful woman. In looks, in manner, in mind. Would I turn down a woman, the most beautiful one I ever met, based on some lousy "rule" I've decided years before I met her?

No.

This was a place I stumbled upon and where I simply wanted some fun, with no illusions one could hook up with anyone from here. I thought it most likely not. But I didn't make it a rule that I never would.



omurchu22 Dundalk, Louth Ireland
rizlared: Better an honest racist than a lying one


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Ambrose2007 Badger, South Dakota USA
rizlared: To limit oneself to dating wholly within your own race is to my mind a display of racism, as the only reason can be be read into such a stance is that you are making an assumption that those outside your race are a lesser person.


That's not logically true.




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