Re: racist vs racialist?

Florian Rivoal wrote:

>I, being "white" (caucasian or whatever you want to call it)
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Is there a better term than 'White' to describe us erm... White people?
We aren't very white (you'd be better off calling me red (even during
Winter II; it's not sunburn :P)), and 'White', at least in English, has
(weak) connotations of purity and the like. Caucasian implies that they
come from Caucasia, but they come from all over Europe. European implies
that we're from Europe, but I would be a foreigner wherever you put me
in Europe; my culture &c. belong in Australia.

'White' seems to me to be the best of a bad bunch---is there a better term?

>, consider all races (if such distinction is really meaningfull) equal. exept
>that i think asian girls are the most beautyful. So in a certain sense, since
>everything else is equal, granting them one more quality, I somehow consider
>asian people "superior" to others, including to my own "kind". ;)
>Would anyone call this racism?
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Yes, but they're fools who seek to find fault in everyone. (Some of this
sort of people called me 'European' and they never heard the end of it.
Not that I have anything against Europeans---you generally seem to be
nice people (excluding those who aren't of course)---I just don't like
people calling me something I'm not.) There is nothing wrong with
preferring Asian chicks (or, more specifically, East Asian chicks, and,
if you're anything like me, the ones from China/Japan/Korea-type area of
Vietnam and other more southerly areas). It's not exactly something you
can help. Of course, if you gave a job to an Asian chick on the ground
that she was Asian (rather than that she was the best skilled), then it
becomes racial discrimination (and perhaps sexual harrassment, but we'll
leave that to the courts to decide, should you choose to act
inappropriately).

> or is there an other word?
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I think the phrase 'sexual preference' is probably about as close as
you'll get.

>But since i am not very found of black girls, again everything else than
>apperance being equal, i could say i think black people are not as good as
>the other. And since this time, i place someone under the other, it is more
>easy to call it racism.
>But personnaly, i think it is not more racist that, for example, prefering
>blondes to black-haired, and feeling red-haired are not so great, because
>this only relies on an esthetic jugement, and does not imply anything else.
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Exactly.

Tristan.

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