I've seen this forum topic numerous times but I didn't want to get into it.  A friend wanted me to visit here, so here I am.  I'll say one thing...Love Conquers All.  Well almost.  Racism comes from members of every group toward members of every other group, I'm not saying ALL people spew out racism but there are some members of every race who will find problems with others.

My husband's relatives are Indonesian, and 3 of the older couples moved here to America around 1960, to a predominantly caucasian city, Grand Rapids Michigan.  They sometimes felt some unspoken discomfort, and some spoken discomfort from other people in the community. 

All the kids they had grew up and married caucasians, and of course the parents welcomed those new sons-in-laws and daughters-in-laws into their families.  BUT at the weddings and births of the babies, one or two of the older people always say "Our heritage has ended here, there's no Indo features in that baby."  I've also noticed favoritism toward the little kids who do have the Asian features among our extended family.  Is that a bad thing or just a comment?  We smile and hug our relatives and are glad that there's no arguments or bad words, but sometimes the softly spoken words are like a grain of sand in our shoe. 

As I said before most intelligent sir,
I did not metion ONE word that was not said in a positive spirit.
My NAME was called out and I responded.
Why does this merit an attack - small vocabulary perhaps?

Thank you Dave,

It is probably better that you don't delete any of these posts-ignorance always shows itself for what it is with very little assistance.

I can take care of myself-A lady never speaks ill of others-no matter what comes out of thier hearts in the guise of "revelations".

Dear friends,

I have followed this forum from its beginning. David made a very good introduction and the follow up he did and som or the replies gave more answers to many questions and daubts.

I recommend the less you use the word negativity the better and the less you use the word NOT much better.

It is meaningless to make a statement on POSITIVE THINKING ending it with negative words. The brain remembers best the last part of a statement. IF that leads to a negative direction then the reply begins from negativity. If something is not written will then the problems appear which can lead to to very bad things.

To understand racism one must read how racism changed form during the ages. A good way is to Read American (USA) History).

Fifty years ago and earlier you were not even allowed to marry a woman who belonged to another folk group. When my brother married a Swedish girl at middle of 70-ies, my mother reacted very hard and wanted to destroy that marriage. "What about our Greek traditions"? She did not win, my brother is still living with Kerstin and they have 4 children, they are good Christians respecting both traditions. My brother knew how to handle the problem others did not. My mother had to give after and you should see how she acted when she got grandchildren from this Swedish woman.

Things are changing so is racism. Today we have a strange situation. We have all classic racism and a growing economical racism which is the worst form of racism. It do respect anything of human values, it do not separate colours, ideas, tradition or cultures. IT KILLS EVERYTHING because it controls all the "best" and most money giving economic sectors that destroy humanity and that are narcotics, business on body and sarca and the war industry.

I will not say more for not being an object  for braking rules or to make troubles.

Yours sincerely,
Georgios