Aren't we all racist?

Yesterday morning I was reading the article from La Repubblica showing how Fascism is making somewhat of a comeback in Italian soccer with banners such as "There is no such thing as a Black Italian" and flags that are clearly Fascist and it occurred to me; Aren't we all racist?



I started thinking about it on the train ride back home last night, and it was clear to me that all of us are racist up to a certain level. Sure we're not all KKK members, none of us should really go out late at night and burn crosses and tack houses however, face it; All of us, me, you, the person at the next cubicle, even our leaders, we are all racist.

It's like this; We all have our limits and tolerances, and when these limits are fucked with, we get angry and then eventually people start talking to one another and, even though the various world governments (and rightly so) keep shutting down groups of people who assemble for racist purposes, these groups are starting to thrive in the underground.

Thus the above article.

The saying is "When in Rome..." and what it really means is if you move into someone else's house you should really observe their rules and customs so, what is the difference between a government that allows groups of foreigners to assemble in ghettos and demonstrate against their "new" country, and then in turn shuts down groups of actual "born there" citizens of the same country because they are holding meeting where they discuss other cultures and how to keep them from thriving and changing our own culture into theirs.

Changing our culture into theirs...

CHANGING OUR CULTURE INTO THEIRS...

Read the sentence above, and compare it with the following one:

Making our culture theirs.

You see the difference?

Which one of the sentences above is really the racist one?

How desirable would it be if let's say here in Canada, a large group of Swedish immigrants came in, and started changing our culture into Sweden's culture? The impact would be noticeable, we might eat more fish and our ladies might start walking around with furry bikinis in the winter months, also they are mostly Atheists, like us.

Now let's change Sweden with Pakistan. Their habits and culture is so different from ours that some of their daily activities are actually illegal in most of North America. How could you justify the lapidation of women based on adultery? If we applied that in the United States half the women would be stoned to death!

How desireable a culture is that?

And then we look at our immigration. We asked our leaders why they keep letting people from such cultures in our country and do you know what they answered? They answered that we are welcoming most of those immigrants based on the fact that under their religion and law, they would be in danger in their own country.

So why is it that they go back for holidays on a semi-annual basis?

How is it also that some of their habits, and not the good ones but the bad ones like excision (granted not in Pakistan but widespread in Muslim Africa) and their own religious tribunal (and barbaric) laws, as I'm saying why is it that those ugly UGLY practices keep showing up here in North America?

Let's assume for a second that those immigrants fled their country to avoid being stoned to death or even cast out for petty things like adultery.

So once they're here why in the hell would they then go about performing these acts?

Is there a flaw in our immigration selection process?

Do the people who choose which ones get to stay as refugee immigrants not do their jobs properly?

Or worse...

Are some of them here because they are actually guilty of such barbaric acts that even in their own countries, they would be put to death?

Consider the following. Let's say an American citizen is judged guilty of murder. He is then condemned to death in the US.

Now knowing that in Canada there is no such thing as the death penalty, (bear with me there) would he not be able to simply flee to Canada and plead that he would get killed if he went back to the US?

I did say bear with me, because Canada and the US of course have an extradition treaty meaning that their penal systems are linked and someone wanted in the US would be wanted in Canada and vice-versa.

We don't have such a treaty with Haiti.

So how wrong are the people in Italy? Or are they simply the canary in the coal mine?