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> I'm talking about if you take a black man and an Asian man and control for everything but race That premise doesn't make sense when speaking about human bein
by ikeyany 6y ago
> I'm talking about if you take a black man and an Asian man and control for everything but race
That premise doesn't make sense when speaking about human beings existing in reality. Race doesn't exist in a vacuum—it comes inherently with decades of cultural and historical context.
- jeffdavis 6y agoNo, what you're saying doesn't make sense, because the "black" race doesn't have a uniform culture or history. You can point to problems in black America, and those problems might be inextricably tied to culture and history. But blacks also live in Africa, and some have a very different culture and history than black America. And some of those Africans immigrate to America, which then means there are blacks here without the cultural and historical context. Nigerian-Americans, for instance, are the highest-educated in the U.S. ( https://www.chron.com/news/article/Data-show-Nigerians-the-most-educated-in-the-U-S-1600808.php https://www.chron.com/news/article/Data-show-Nigerians-the-m... ), surpassing Whites and Asians.
- ikeyany 6y agoNigerians still have to deal with the effects of legal racial discrimination (segregation was legal only 60 years ago), such as getting racially profiled every time they walk into a store or walk too closely to a white woman on a street.
- jeffdavis 6y agoI didn't say race doesn't matter. I said that race is seperable from cultural and historical context. Recent immigration provides a window into that. Those problems that are more closely bound with culture and history won't be solved by focusing on discrimination/bias/prejudice/profiling (and other racial issues).
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