I don't know, I've never seen mayo in my life around blacks. You can claim i know little about black culture - but I've pretty much been immersed in it my whole life. In any case, I've heard of blacks not liking mayo before under cover brother and before pulp fiction (where samuel jackson reacts in disgust to the idea of french fries and mayo). There's also a mayo company that refused to advertise to black audiences ("black people don't eat our product!") or something like that. Is it racist for a mayo company, that knows that very few of it's consumers are black, not to market it's product to blacks? Interesting question huh?
It's the Dutch who love mayo with their fries. After I was there long enough, I actually started to like it. The mayo doesn't taste like the stuff you typically see here. Anyway, get the damn Pulp Fiction reference right, guys. Jeez! Keep D&D Pulped.
no worries, i push the limits a lot...but yeah, i was just being satirical - which is a bit jerkish I suppose. I know what you're saying, I just am skeptical. It's really more of a human psychological study then anything else - and I admit I don't know how people start hating others. I think it's anger and fear more then stereotypes, but you think the other way around it seems. And all I can do is try to mock you and tease you a bit since we know the debate is over.
I don't think it is the other way around. I think that stereotypes can and have made the anger and fear possible to be directed at an entire race, religion, or culture on a large enough sense for it to be relevant. I think fear, and anger will always be there among some, and fear is pretty easy to spread especially when certain stereotypes are prevelant.
my point is that the fear and anger exists before hand, it's not created by the stereotype...it creates the stereotypes. most stereotypes are born out of observation and experience....but others are just irrational - and those are the ones based on paranoia or hate.
Making stereotypes based on observation is also irrational. One person is not going to observe a suitable sample of an entire population, but rather a very few tiny isolated incidents, or incidents relegated to the who the person that does observing would enounter. To think that you might know 50 black people and have noticed something that you believe is a way of acting based on those that you know, and apply that to the whole race is indeed irrational.
