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@cheesemaster said<=== LOS ANGELES REPRESENT 4 decades + (well 1 decade was in Berkeley and SF)
Living in major cities like me doesn't help.
Most of the liberals here haven't even been to a major city in North America nor lived in one.
You think liberals all live in the country or something? lul
I think that culture is the biggest component to the buildup of racism,
racism has been around, all over the globe since man climbed out of the slime, and it
sure seems like it did not go away. We'll never defeat racism by hushing the bores
The Azers and ethnic Armenians; long time enemies, now at war again. Greeks and Turks, always friction. Closeness breeds contempt.
The page could easily fill
@athousandyoung said4 decades of being fooled into voting for rich white democrats?
<=== LOS ANGELES REPRESENT 4 decades + (well 1 decade was in Berkeley and SF)
You think liberals all live in the country or something? lul
Your votes are easy...
Just play the race card.
Nice Democrat cities you have 😆 LMAO
@earl-of-trumps saidAgreed.
I think that culture is the biggest component to the buildup of racism,
racism has been around, all over the globe since man climbed out of the slime, and it
sure seems like it did not go away. We'll never defeat racism by hushing the bores
The Azers and ethnic Armenians; long time enemies, now at war again. Greeks and Turks, always friction. Closeness breeds contempt.
The page could easily fill
Trying to end it will only make it grow.
Trying to blame another race will only make it grow.
@earl-of-trumps saidBoth situations you refer to aren’t racist issues. They’re about land and who controls it.
I think that culture is the biggest component to the buildup of racism,
racism has been around, all over the globe since man climbed out of the slime, and it
sure seems like it did not go away. We'll never defeat racism by hushing the bores
The Azers and ethnic Armenians; long time enemies, now at war again. Greeks and Turks, always friction. Closeness breeds contempt.
The page could easily fill
Any hate whipped up in those cases has to do with political parties wanting land.
Give us a few examples where it is genuinly racism which is causing a conflict.
@cheesemaster saidWell it worked the first time for Trump but his brilliant idiocy shine through and enough non racists were forced out to vote by their survival instincts for his second run.
4 decades of being fooled into voting for rich white democrats?
Your votes are easy...
Just play the race card.
Nice Democrat cities you have 😆 LMAO
@torunn saidOoooh, I hate intolerant know-it-alls. They should be lined up and shot!
@divegeester
"And we are all guilty of it to some extent."
I think you are right.
@shavixmir saidIf the Azer and Armenians were ethnically the same, there would be no argument over land. They'd be working for eachother
Both situations you refer to aren’t racist issues. They’re about land and who controls it.
Any hate whipped up in those cases has to do with political parties wanting land.
Give us a few examples where it is genuinly racism which is causing a conflict.
@earl-of-trumps saidIt’s more a Christian / Muslim divide than an ethnic one but really it’s about territory.
If the Azer and Armenians were ethnically the same, there would be no argument over land. They'd be working for eachother
Canada and the US aren’t really ethnically different but I don’t think you’d want them taking the Great Lakes region off your hands.
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@earl-of-trumps saidUh no.
If the Azer and Armenians were ethnically the same, there would be no argument over land. They'd be working for eachother
You do know the fighting is about Nagorno-Karabakh. That’s an area in Azerbaijan which doesn’t belong to Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan is Moslim and Armenia is Orthodox Christian.
When, after the fall of the Ottoman empire, both Armenia and Azerbaijan declared independence, they fought about this enclave. Along came the USSR and annexed the lot of it.
Then the USSR went the way of the Ottomans and both countries fought for that piece of land. Eventually it became its own republic.
Basically a Christian, Armenian speaking circle in Azerbaijan.
Now, I say to you: if it was an independent Moslim, Azerbaijani speaking republic, Azerbaijan would still think it part of their country.
Look at the map.
Look at it!
Imagine Kansas decided Spanish was their first language and broke away from the US. And many people moved there to speak Spanish and not be bothered by the US...
Would the US accept that? Would that be ethnically the issue or land-grab?
@kevcvs57 saidaltho your point raised is a good one, please not that Canada and the US live quite peacefully together. always have. no smoke. we don't hate eachother, based on some ethnic differences.
It’s more a Christian / Muslim divide than an ethnic one but really it’s about territory.
Canada and the US aren’t really ethnically different but I don’t think you’d want them taking the Great Lakes region off your hands.
@earl-of-trumps saidWar of 1812?
altho your point raised is a good one, please not that Canada and the US live quite peacefully together. always have. no smoke. we don't hate eachother, based on some ethnic differences.
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@kevcvs57 saidEthnicity is wider than just "race" though. It's about language, history, tradition, culture... and religion. So the Christian / Muslim divide is one element of ethnic difference. In some cases (e.g., the difference between a Serb and a Bosniak), religion is the main thing that defines ethnicity, since language and race are identical and differences in culture and tradition emerge primarily from religion.
It’s more a Christian / Muslim divide than an ethnic one but really it’s about territory.
The dispute is about territory, but the reason that separate nation states of Azerbaijan and Armenia exist in the first place is because their inhabitants are ethnically different. If they weren't, there certainly wouldn't have been a war over Nagorno-Karabagh, which happened precisely because national borders and ethnic borders didn't coincide.