Is it racist?

DBK said:
What does language have to do with race?
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Thats what im saying! Would this be considered prejudice?


idk, probably not prejudice.

–noun
1. an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason.
2. any preconceived opinion or feeling, either favorable or unfavorable.
3. unreasonable feelings, opinions, or attitudes, esp. of a hostile nature, regarding a racial, religious, or national group.
4. such attitudes considered collectively: The war against prejudice is never-ending.
5. damage or injury; detriment: a law that operated to the prejudice of the majority.
 
DBK said:
What does language have to do with race?
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I thought the exact same thing, but I decided to look up the definition of "race" before I made that comment in case my understanding of what constitutes "race" is inaccurate. Apparently the definition is more broad than I realized.

My understanding of it was:

Dictionary.com said:
race   /reɪs/ Show Spelled[reys] Show IPA

–noun
1. a group of persons related by common descent or heredity.

2. a population so related.

3. Anthropology .

a. any of the traditional divisions of humankind, the commonest being the Caucasian, Mongoloid, and Negro, characterized by supposedly distinctive and universal physical characteristics: no longer in technical use.

b. an arbitrary classification of modern humans, sometimes, esp. formerly, based on any or a combination of various physical characteristics, as skin color, facial form, or eye shape, and now frequently based on such genetic markers as blood groups.

c. a human population partially isolated reproductively from other populations, whose members share a greater degree of physical and genetic similarity with one another than with other humans.

4. a group of tribes or peoples forming an ethnic stock: the Slavic race.

5. any people united by common history, language, cultural traits, etc.: the Dutch race.

6. the human race or family; humankind: Nuclear weapons pose a threat to the race.

7. Zoology . a variety; subspecies.

8. a natural kind of living creature: the race of fishes.

9. any group, class, or kind, esp. of persons: Journalists are an interesting race.

10. the characteristic taste or flavor of wine.
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Don't know how these qualify as race, but apparently they technically do:

Dictionary.com said:
4. a group of tribes or peoples forming an ethnic stock: the Slavic race.

5. any people united by common history, language, cultural traits, etc.: the Dutch race.
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That said, I still think it's a load of bullshit and this shouldn't be in any way considered "racist." I think of those last definitions as "culture" or "ethnicity" and you could potentially argue it's cultural prejudice, but even then that's bullshit because those are the rules, obey them or GTFO. If America is so great and you want to be here, you'd think it would be worth the effort to learn the official language.
 
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cjmatt said:
just watched the Tosh.O clip and actually, tosh is an idiot. What does language have to do with race? I know plenty of english speaking mexican and black people...I think making all black people take the test written in African would be racist though, haha
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Tosh is funny as fuck.
 
nothing wrong with that! you live in this country speak what you want in your home, but understand all business is conducted via the English language.
 
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