Cultures die all the time, and it's usually due to a number of factors - one of them of course being immigration. Pointing this out is not racist. It's a statem

Cultures die all the time, and it's usually due to a number of factors - one of them of course being immigration. Pointing this out is not racist. It's a statement of fact, with plenty of history to boot. >It's just blatantly obvious standard-issue racism. No, it isn't. There have been entire neighborhoods in e.g. Harlem that have been gentrified out of their cultural heritage. Is lamenting that fact racist? I for one think it's sad, that a culture that was distinctly black is now gone forever - and it's not racist to say this. Now, Harlem is likely a bad example because it's a place in America, where we are supposed to be a melting pot and this kind of thing happens all the time. I don't have enough experience in Europe to give a more pertinent example, but again I still don't think it's at all bad to lament the fact that there's been some cultural turnover - especially when it happens on a very short timeline. That seems perfectly normal.