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**Annevecenqp** · 02-11-2007, 03:00 PM

If someone is making some racist remarks against me because I'm italian, I would at most feel sorry for him for being ignorant and unpolite, but we have to understand that we can't pretend the whole world to know and believe the same exact things.

That's very admirable and I agree. Btw, Italians are not a race but, rather, a culture and national identity. Caucasians are a race.

Frankly, the whole concept of "race" is a 19th-century Anglo-Saxon construct which made the whole concept of a "people" or a "volk" fashionable and that led to it's mis-use during the 1930's in Europe.

We can certainly without that!

02-11-2007, 03:00 PM	#22
Annevecenqp Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 354 Senior Member	If someone is making some racist remarks against me because I'm italian, I would at most feel sorry for him for being ignorant and unpolite, but we have to understand that we can't pretend the whole world to know and believe the same exact things. That's very admirable and I agree. Btw, Italians are not a race but, rather, a culture and national identity. Caucasians are a race. Frankly, the whole concept of "race" is a 19th-century Anglo-Saxon construct which made the whole concept of a "people" or a "volk" fashionable and that led to it's mis-use during the 1930's in Europe. We can certainly without that!
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