Closure on Balaguer

[bilijou]

Originally Posted by y0maris

Wow, so i know this quite old, and I'm going off of the dialogue on page 7, but my inquirement is towards DR1.com being all about censorship? Race can't be discussed on this messageboard? Are my people that much in denial in that they refuse to let others speak out about what's already apparent within the ignorant, screwed up mindset of our people? RACE is and has always been an issue between Dominicans. You can BLAME that on the brainwashings of Balaguer y Trujillo. Some people can't help but follow that repugnantly ignorant frame of mind that's been passed down from their abuelos and greats. And then you have censorship on sites like this one of pawns sadly attempting to sweep the secret back under the rug when the secret has already been let out ALREADY. Face the truth and get with it. Enough already, the ignorance has got me tired.

It's almost sickening, huh?

[Exxtol]

Originally Posted by NALs

In such societies, being white, black, or mixed is not often based on race - because it doesn't exist in such societies - but on color and physical appearance.
NALs

In the end what's the difference if we're simply replacing one "ism" for another? The above inference is interchangeable.

Originally Posted by NALs

Let's end this race tangent here. You will simply be beating a dead horse and get this thread closed.

- NALs

You spent several paragraphs enumerating your stance on "race" or err color in the DR, ableit on a completely unrelated thread topic, so you're right--case closed.

--Exxtol

[Exxtol]

Ps: Sorry for the spelling mistake.

[NALs]

Originally Posted by Exxtol

In the end what's the difference if we're simply replacing one "ism" for another? The above inference is interchangeable.

--Exxtol

The difference is that it explains why people with a particular appearance in one country are placed in a particular category while in another they are in a totally different category. Hence, their "race" or ethnicity changes by simply crossing borders.

Those changes are not merely cosmetic, but they imply differences in privileges and levels of acceptance of such person in one country vs. the same person in another country.

So yes, its replacing one "ism" for another, but there is a difference when it comes to privileges and levels of acceptance. After its all set and done, the purpose for categorizing people into ethnic/racial groups is to control the distribution of resources in a given society and that is why categorizations are always hierarchical.

For people whose appearance will always put them, traditionally at least, at the most disadvantaged position in society; well then such differences in "isms" may be irrelevant. The same holds true for people who will fall on the most advantageous position. But, for people who rise or fall in the hierarchy based on the interpretation or lack of interpretation of differences in one society vs. another; well these differences in "isms" begin to take some type of importance.

-NALs