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Originally posted by Rory Tate+Apr 21 2005, 07:32 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Rory Tate @ Apr 21 2005, 07:32 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-SoulOfTheFlame@Apr 21 2005, 07:20 AM
He's totally right. I've been all over Canada, and it seems the further West I go the more racism I encounter.
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Now that could be taken as stereotyping in and of itself. I mean, just because those of us in the West are inbred and uneducated...er, wait a minute.
Seriously though, these kinds of attitudes do creep in with statements like this, so I think it's important to always keep in mind that group trends (which do exist)
cannot apply to individuals. I'm not talking morally or socially unacceptable here (i.e. politically correct)...I'm saying mathematically it is wrong. The logic simply does not hold up under scientific scrutiny. It is only our lazy minds, fearful of strangers, that need to find patterns that tell us who someone is based on their race, colour, etc., without treating them as a real person. [/b][/quote]
I'm not saying every westerner is racist by any means, I'm saying only that I have encountered more racism in the west in my personal life. I wasn't stereotyping.