[67Irralphaisa]

Everything has to do with personal gain. Everything.

My view is that irrational beliefs are often pursued that contradict the likely better actions that would not result in:

1. destruction of one's country
2. destruction of the economic position of the society
3. transformation of the state into a pariah

Irrational actions against one's own self-interest are far more frequent, both at the individual and national level.

Example: Irrationality of American Electorate:
http://www.princeton.edu/~bartels/how_stupid.pdf

Salient quote:
"In 1960, a team of researchers from the University of Michigan published an even more influential study, The American Voter. They described “the general impoverishment of political thought in a large proportion of the electorate,” noting that “many people know the existence of few if any of the major issues of policy.”3 Shifts in election outcomes, they concluded, were largely attributable to defections from long-standing partisan loyalties by relatively unsophisticated voters with little grasp of issues or ideology. A recent replication of their work using surveys from 2000 and 2004 found that things haven’t changed much in the past half-century."

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Incidentally, for those interested:

use this to read the literature on bounded rationality:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounded_rationality

[YonkFiorc]

See also heritability of political affiliations:

" In mailed surveys of adult Australian twins, we asked respondents to indicate their usual voting preference as well as attitudes on contemporary individual political items. When vote choice was dichotomized as Labor versus Conservative, twin correlations were r mz = 0.81 (1661 pairs), and r dz = 0.69 (1727 pairs) consistent with modest genetic influence (a 2 = 0.24)."

Source: http://www.springerlink.com/content/q42q0l51557391n8/

[Nubtoubrem]

Are you retarded? I talked about muslims in muslim countries respecting christian minorities. I don't give a shit about some weak-minded convertitets nor do I give a shit about immigrant muslims who have to obey the law of the host country.

Muslim countries are theocracies. Hence extremist. Show me a country run by a Christian theocracy today. Try again.

[HonestSean]

It depends. Racism, as it's practiced in the U.S., is usually based on percieved genetic inferiority and in some cases, appearance. At least with respect to blacks.

Racism directed at other groups tends to be based on behavior, cultural differences and so on. For example, very few people hate whites based on their appearance. Racism against whites is usually based on distrust or revenge for past injustices.

[urbalatte]

It depends. Racism, as it's practiced in the U.S., is usually based on percieved genetic inferiority and in some cases, appearance. At least with respect to blacks.

Racism directed at other groups tends to be based on behavior, cultural differences and so on. For example, very few people hate whites based on their appearance. Racism against whites is usually based on distrust or revenge for past injustices.

I disagree because many are targeted by looks, regardless of ethnic origin.

[lXwVlTgO]

Dude? Are you dumb? Why haven't I got anything against Armenians? Georgians? Assyrians? Or other christian groups? I like Ethiopian culture too. Every culture that has some kind of christian roots aren't viewed as alien by me.

ETHNOCENTRISM.
Dude, you just made clear that it's not European culture but Christian culture you are biased towards, disliking all else. I would imagine the closer or farther away you feel a culture is from Christianity also determines your disdain.

[effenseshoora]

Proud of those two English women at the end for walking out, I would say something im sure, ive witnessed racism on nights out, for example a black guy attmepting to chat up some blonde and her calling him a ni****, I overheard and gave her some abuse back, unfortunately this kind of racism is all too common.

The couple at the start of the clip really annoyed me though, just no moral values whatsoever pff.