(04-18-2013, 02:21 AM)AliR Wrote: [ -> ]....you just described a king, minus the beheadings and crucifixions
yeah. actually sam basically just described the best possible kind of king there is. it's all downhill from there
lol
If sam became a king would he be jesus?
I want to jump in on this discussion of racism and stuff. I think we should either not classify people or classify people specifically on what county they are from (in the majority at least, unless they're a million things, in which case they're just American). I guess ethnicity plays into statistics about schooling and stuff, but we should definitely take ethnicity out of job applications and school applications and stuff. Just get that shit off the paper.
Also, I don't understand the idea of minorities. Mexican Americans are a "minority". However, lets look at some numbers for the US population;
German Americans (Majority): 15.8%
Irish Americans (Majority): 11.9%
Mexican Americans (Minority): 10.8%
English Americans (Majority): 9%
French Americans (Majority): 3.7%
Polish Americans (Majority): 3.2%
Puerto Rican Americans (Minority): 1.463%
Norweigan Americans (Majority): 1.456%
Swedish Americans (Majority): 1.36%
Russian Americans (Majority): .99%
*The first four on this list are the actual 4 largest groups, after that I just kinda picked countries. Puerto Rico does have the second largest hispanic group though. All numbers from Wikipedia.
How the fuck is the 3rd largest group in the United States a minority? And those numbers don't count illegal immigrants, which can only make the percentage higher. Sure a lot of them live in poverty, but the term minority doesn't mean "Poor people", it means "the smaller of two groups forming a whole". They should come up with a better name for them than minority, because the term is misleading.
Because you can mix all the european races together as white, it becomes the majority.
But "Whites" includes "Hispanic and Latino Whites" and "Non-Hispanic Whites". Seriously. Like where I live, 60% of the "White People" are hispanic/latino.
german/dutch/other european ancestry, probs.
When people mention 'minorities' they mean non-majority races that were discriminated against.
Thats what I'm saying though, by "Race" Mexican americans are white people, who are a majority, and by country of origin they're the third largest group, but yet they are still considered a minority. What people men now when they refer to a "minority" has nothing to do with a small or large number of people, which is stupid because thats the definition of minority. They need a different word for it.