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While it is true that most citizens of the United States are white, at least four-fifths of the world’s population consists of people of color. Anthony, and Bach are just as “ethnic” as Miriam Makeba, Indira Gandhi, and Johnny Colon. It implies a state of other-ness, or foreign origin, apart from the norm. It defines people of color only as we relate to white people. The term “exotic,” when applied to human beings, is ethnocentric and racist. Rather it seeks to help those with good and righteous intentions to refine behavior and attitudes bred in cultural ignorance.Įthnocentrism, according to the Random House Dictionary of the English language, means “a tendency to view alien groups or cultures in terms of one’s own” and “the belief in the inherent superiority of one’s own group and culture, accompanied by a feeling of contempt for other groups and cultures.” This does not try to talk anyone out of being racist or anti-Semitic.
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This guide is to help people avoid some of the obvious as well as not so obvious pitfalls of unwitting racism and anti-Semitism. Sometimes people just don’t know any better. This does not necessarily mean one is a bad person. Racism and the racial stereotypes it spawns are so subtly interwoven into the fabric of Western society that very often, even those with the best of intentions will display bad cultural manners. Published in Communities Magazine Issue #90