Thread by @aheidrich

What is the #racistlogic?

#Americans allow me a criticism: the more you define people as African-American, Caucasian, Italian-American, Latin American and all other possible variations, you will always be reinforcing a racist view, even when you have a good view of these people+

It is in this type of language that serves as fuel for the construction of a world view, often unconscious. Tell me, what difference does it make whether someone who robbed the store was a #blackguy or a #whiteguy? To identify him? As if it helped something...+

I grew up in a state of #southernBrazil, more ethnically homogeneous and, in my adolescence, I moved to the country's economic center, #SãoPaulo, where miscegenation is great and, I still lived, for three years in Cidade Universitária (#USP), where there were Africans, Europeans+

Latin Americans, some Americans, Japanese, Chinese and Brazilians from everywhere. There, it was my true intellectual experience, where I could see #differentcultures, interact and learn. My obvious conclusion, do you want to fight racism? Mix people up. But, without forcing+

the #migration, only stimulated by work. People adapt and create #newcultures and forms of #tolerance.

Tell me, Americans, if the states that are more tolerant are not, precisely, the most ethnically mixed?

#AnselmoHeidrich

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