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**SkapySisy** · 02-11-2007, 03:28 PM

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!

The existence of the biological concept of race is unquestionable, you can try not to look at it if you don't like, but indeed it does exist. Extremization of the concept or race as its absolute denial are both wrong ways usually dictated by cultural trends, in the 1930's of the last century as, on the opposite, today (the herd culture of political correctness).
We must accept reality as it is, not as we would like it to be.
That's all.

ps - obviously italians are not a "race",you don't need to tell me. Do you know the conventional and accepted meaning of the term "racism"?

02-11-2007, 03:28 PM	#23
SkapySisy Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 471 Senior Member	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! The existence of the biological concept of race is unquestionable, you can try not to look at it if you don't like, but indeed it does exist. Extremization of the concept or race as its absolute denial are both wrong ways usually dictated by cultural trends, in the 1930's of the last century as, on the opposite, today (the herd culture of political correctness). We must accept reality as it is, not as we would like it to be. That's all. ps - obviously italians are not a "race",you don't need to tell me. Do you know the conventional and accepted meaning of the term "racism"?
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