robj101 wrote:

The "culture" thing really does hit closer to home than the color thing. I don't care what color they are when they walk into my shop. If their pants are sagging, they have tattoos all over their neck or piercings all over their face I develop a fast negative impression.

It's not about race for me, it's about how one carries their "self".

(awaiting a flame)

 

 

 

I agree with you on this, tats are fine, but once you start getting them on places that are visible with say a long sleeve shirt on or a suite, well it gives off a certain impression, i deal with the criminals and former criminals/gang members, tats on exposed areas, like hands, necks, head or facial area stigmatizes them. But for proper reason, more than not most that have visible tats have them not for artistic sakes (unless they are actual artists, musicians, actors) but because of gang relations or because of their criminal history (jail tats etc,) which leaves the rest of society judging them on first sight. As well the clothing and how one carries themselves is also important in our society, however the image of a culture or a race is largely dependent on how that culture portrays themselves and how they are portrayed in literature and in films. In the US blacks aren't usually portrayed in a great light, and in reality the worst people to portray their culture tend to make it into the spot light.

Another thing to keep in mind, I believe personally that we are all inherently racist, not in the sense that we will lynch others on site type of thing, but that we tend to group together with what we find familiar, those of similar skin colour, background, culture etc, etc, etc. As I have always stated individually people are great, as a group they are a bunch of assholes. I have observed this in many cases, even amongst blacks, whites, hispanics and asians (including south east asians) where individually that are fine, but bring more to the group and those with similar backgrounds or skin colour etc, tend to group together. Best example I have was an english pub I used to work at in which scots, irish, english and polish use to come and drink, individually they were fine and talked amongst themselves all friendly, but as they afternoon progressed and more came in, they would gather together, scots with scots, irish with irish, english with english and poles with poles. Even at times those from the UK would verbally attack the poles for nothing more than they were polish. Other times they would attack each other, scots against english english vs irish, irish vs scots etc, etc. (ok sometimes i would initiate it for my own entertainment but that's a different thing....I was an Argentinian, i was both their friend and enemy and odd position to be in.)

 

i agree with you except the bold part 

i personal think its not that we are all racist but we judge people was more than we should sometimes