I think all humans are by nature 'racist'.\nWe all have a need to organise, catergorize something, especially another race. There are so many different types of individuals, so many different personalities and people, most of us need something like a word, a description to describe the 'typical' characteristics (that might perhaps stem out of cultural biasness or differences in culture and hence the stereotyping), or we wouldn't be able to actually 'understand' the people.\nAdding to that, mass media tends to pull jokes that many times border on racial stereotypes, the smiling chinaman, the flirtatious Indian, the poor mexican, the nodding Japanese - it's become so widespread and mainstream that it's become an unconscious gesture of just describing or poking fun at a race.\nIt doesn't bother me so long as the jokes or the meaning isn't meant to have a vicious undertone, used to discriminate, insult or degrade the race.\nSometimes, we have to learn and accept that we all make snap and permanent judgements on people, including races. What matters is the line we draw at these judgements, jokes and so on.\n\nJenova\n(d.yuffie@gmail.com)