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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not lying -- try asking some people if they take on the attitudes/perceptions/beliefs of a certain group  just because they physically resemble them.

This does not apply just to Africans, but to any ethnic group.

An Italian teenager from Italy is not likely to have much in common with a 4th generation Italian-american kid from New Jersey -- except looks.[/quote]

Nobody said it's about physical appearance, it's about the attitudes/perceptions/beliefs themselves - a kid from Jersey will take on whatever he's exposed to in Jersey, the kid in Italy will take on whatever he's exposed to in Italy.  A kid growing up with things like gangsta rap touting crime, violence, misogyny, and materialism will gravitate to that behavior.  And as a previous post pointed out, someone from Africa will have a very different set of attitude/perceptions/beliefs than an AA in DC because of a different upbringing and set of things they were exposed to.

Meanwhile, the second part of it is how the rest of society reacts and responds.  As pointed out, white skinheads for example are openly disdained and loudly condemned.  But the same is not always the case elsewhere, for example with some negative behavior, it's given a pass with some handwaving of "you don't get it" or "that's just part of urban culture and has nothing to do with the rest" - white skinheads have nothing to do with the rest of the white population and whites "don't get" white skinheads either, but that certainly doesn't stop whites from openly disdaining and loudly condemning them.[/quote]

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