Many Americans have no friends of another race: poll

[August]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Yes, but it has won a new quality in the public's endless debates with itself. More and more things slide so that when you call a politically incorrect opinion "insane", it is meant as that for real, the meaning of a mental disease from which society must cure the subject. That may be part of the explanation why correctness and its activists have become more and more intolerant will a surprising amount of totalitarianism and force to enforce their "therapies" and "cures" (you should listen in to some of the suggestions coming from the Green and the left in Germany).

It's no longer just rhetorically meant, but often is implied or meant as being fact. Disagreeing with the wanted opinion becomes evidence for your mental problems, your "insanity". Education camps come next. That they want a legal obligation that parents have to expose their children to Kindergardens already at the age of 1 year although medical and psychological research shows that this means so much stress and fear that it is damaging to the children's health (immune system defects) and personality development (concentration deficits, risen risks for later neurosis and personality disorders), must be seen in this context. Of course the idea is most loved by the left and Green: the individual means nothing, it's dissolving in the collective means everything.

Again it's nothing new in human or even western history. The players and the topics change but the purposes and intentions do not. Extend ones control over the population and outlaw or marginalize the opposition. Any reason will do. In an earlier time they would just have declared them heretics or counter-revolutionaries.

[CaptainMattJ.]

What does this have to do with anything? What, im mandated to have a friend of a different race now? (I have MANY friends of a different race, by the way) Because people who dont have friends of another race are clearly segregating themselves from other races? And they reach this conclusion based off of the answers of 4170 americans? The surveys they do sometimes are so pointless i swear. Yellow Journalism at its finest.

[Armistead]

A mixed race of bi-sexual atheist is our only hope of civility?

My best friend is my dog

but he is a mixed breed.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Armistead

My best friend is my dog

but he is a mixed breed.

Aren't we all?

[Gerald]

Mankind's early development occurred in Africa, if I remember correctly

[CaptainHaplo]

Many years ago, America was referred to as "The Great Melting Pot" - meaning different ethnicities and cultures could come together in one large society. Unfortunately, many are unwilling to let their culture combine with any other, else it be "diluted".

I am half German, part Irish and Scottish, with a bit of Cherokee and African in me. I look "Caucasian". I am not a "German-Irish-Scot" American - I am an American. Hyphenation and holding onto distinct racial and ethnic culture out of fear - as many in society do, only continues to reinforce racial and ethnic stereotypes - creating chasms that need to be bridged.

I get along with people of many ethnicities - and I can't stand a number of other people from those same ethnicities. Why? Because some people don't see everything as some sort of challenge to their "culture". Others do - and those that do need to grow the heck up and get a clue.

Societal segregation exists not only due to economic and educational differences, it also exists because many people of "minorities" choose for it to do so out of a misguided concept that if they are not "ethnic" enough, they will lose their "culture".

[Sailor Steve]

I won't even try to speak for anyone else, let alone "many". I've had friends from all walks of life and all races, and one of only two people I would describe as a "close friend" is of a different color than mine. I didn't say "race" because I don't hold with the splitting of the human race into sub-categories, other than to use as a descriptive term

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by August

Again it's nothing new in human or even western history. The players and the topics change but the purposes and intentions do not. Extend ones control over the population and outlaw or marginalize the opposition. Any reason will do. In an earlier time they would just have declared them heretics or counter-revolutionaries.

Sure, but in the West we have had kind of an intermezzo of creative optimism and civil rights, liberal spirit and founding entrepreneurs, humanistic philosophy, educated burgeois classes and a focussing on justice, ration and reason. Much of that is coming to an end, or is in the phase of terminal decline, it seems to me.