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OK. That's completely unnecessary and racist; very racist. Please take a couple of minutes to reflect on how wrong what you just did here really is.

• mpyne 13y ago
  While I agree that a hacker being from country $FOO should bear no negative association with everyone else from the country, this doesn't appear to be racism, which is a label that already get applied too often. You can make disparaging remarks about a nation without it having any racist intent. The people on HN and elsewhere who disparage the USA, for instance, could hardly be singling out a single race.
  • mtrimpe 13y ago
    If you choose to correlate two generally unrelated negative events based on race and imply they are a symptom of an underlying failing of character of the culture, that is very much racism. Just try replacing Turkish with gay, which is about equally as arbitrary of a relationship to pick, and see how the parent's statement sounds to you.
    • mpyne 13y ago
      In that case it would sound homophobic, not racist.
      • mtrimpe 13y ago
        Exactly ...
        • mpyne 13y ago
          There's nothing "Exactly" about it, unless you're trying to claim that cultural norms are the same as races now.
          • mtrimpe 13y ago
            Ah OK. If we're talking definitions then indeed; as far as I'm concerned discriminating based on cultural norms of a specific country is still racism. I can imagine that in the US racism more commonly concerns the traditional notion of race but in Europe, where race and nationality are usually synonymous for all intents and purposes, a workable definition needs to be a bit broader. I double checked it on Wikipedia just to get a second opinion and this is what they have to say about it: > Some definitions of racism also include discriminatory behaviors and beliefs based on cultural, national, ethnic, caste, or religious stereotypes