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Racist? Texas high school apologizes for fans' 'USA!' chant after basketball game

2010 Census


The 2010 US Census included changes designed to more clearly distinguish Hispanic ethnicity as not being a race. That included adding the sentence: "For this census, Hispanic origins are not races."[15][16] Additionally, the Hispanic terms were modified from "Hispanic or Latino" to "Hispanic, Latino or Spanish origin".[15][16]


Although used in the Census and the American Community Survey, "Some other race" is not an official race,[13] and the Bureau considered eliminating it prior to the 2000 Census.[17] As the 2010 census form did not contain the question titled "Ancestry" found in prior censuses, there were campaigns to get non-Hispanic West Indian Americans, Arab Americans and Iranian Americans to indicate their ethnic or national background through the race question, specifically the "Some other race" category.[18][19][20]
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andrew said:
I don't know if it is just me, but I am just tired of everything being declared "racist". If I tell someone that I do not like Barack Obama, they will call me a racist.
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If you say you don't like Obama because of his policies, and someone calls you a racist, that person is an idiot. Move on with your life.
 
ThePlayDrive said:
You cheer for your team. At this game, the USA was not a team.
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That's correct. Both were from USA. so what is the problem of chanting USA? I honestly do not see what the problem is!
 
Wake said:
Race and ethnicity in the United States Census - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Racism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Racism" and "racial discrimination" are often used to describe discrimination on an ethnic or cultural basis, independent of their somatic (i.e., "racial") differences. According to the United Nations conventions, there is no distinction between the term racial discrimination and ethnicity discrimination.[1]
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Mya said:
That's correct. Both were from USA. so what is the problem of chanting USA? I honestly do not see what the problem is!
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Go to a professional game and try starting a USA chant and then come report back to us.
 
Mya said:
That's correct. Both were from USA. so what is the problem of chanting USA? I honestly do not see what the problem is!
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So what, they were cheering for everybody because they all tried real hard?
 
rocket88 said:
So what, they were cheering for everybody because they all tried real hard?
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Should have they chanted MEXICO MEXICO instead? Would that have been ok? I don't know I am not American ....
 
Mya said:
Yes I have. and here we are not on pins and needles when cheering!
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Just wondering why you would ask. Generally the home team cheers for their team, not their country - unless their country is their team.

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I'm done explaining it. If someone doesn't know why it's rude for them to start a USA chant, then they have some issues to work out.
 
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andrew said:
Are you reading the same thread I am? Last I checked this thread was about fans chanting USA and it being 'racist'.
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Yes I am. You mentioned that you are "tired of everything being declared "racist"". "Everything" has not been declared racist in this thread. In fact, many people haven't even declared that the situation described in the OP is, in fact, an example of racism. Like I said, it's just you.
 
andrew said:
Perhaps they wanted all the Americans to chant USA. Instead their coach hushes them, and they get punished. It's a shame...
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Perhaps when you take into account all the normal factors of a sporting event in addition to the ethnic/racial makeup of the teams, then the logical conclusion is that the explanation you're trying to make happen is not even close to likely.
 
The students from the losing school were from the United States it appears. I would hear this a overt act of nationalism and nothing more. Perhaps the other school should not be sore losers and accept that if they are to be considered Americans they should not take every word stated at a basketball game as a racial slight.

Point is if you consider yourself American then no one can tell you that you are not. Nonsense and oversensitivity.
 
whysoserious said:
Just wondering why you would ask. Generally the home team cheers for their team, not their country - unless their country is their team.

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I'm done explaining it. If someone doesn't know why it's rude for them to start a USA chant, then they have some issues to work out.
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The thread should have ended at post #2.
 
Connery said:
The students from the losing school were from the United States it appears. I would hear this a overt act of nationalism and nothing more. Perhaps the other school should not be sore losers and accept that if they are to be considered Americans they should not take every word stated at a basketball game as a racial slight.

Point is if you consider yourself American then no one can tell you that you are not. Nonsense and oversensitivity.
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Actually, they can and they did - which is the topic of this thread.
 
Wake said:
"Hispanic" isn't a race, therefore, it cannot possibly be racist to say "USA, USA" during a game involving Hispanic students.
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WOW!!!!! That is really off the wall.
 
ThePlayDrive said:
Actually, they can and they did - which is the topic of this thread.
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Actually they did not. Your perception of what occurred tells you they did.

They razzed the other team? Maybe. Any person white, green, purple or otherwise will soon realize that life is tough enough and someone shouting USA USA is not a fatal blow. Maybe when they have real problems they will wish for those glory days at high school when they lost the big game and got all upset over nothing.
 
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justabubba said:
you wear panties?
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justabubba said:
according to google maps, these two high schools are 3.5 miles apart
yet one is predominantly white and the other hispanic
THAT is the underlying problem
we have allowed our schools to become re-segregated
those with political influence direct the drawing of the school attendance boundary lines
we gerrymander school attendance areas just as we gerrymander political districts
and then we are alarmed by a result such as this
so much for a melting pot. it's actually the un-melding of America
say it with me
USA! USA! USA!























proud yet?!
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That's silly: we ended busing in 1999 purely because it was a waste of taxpayer dollars. No one is FORCING them to live 'with eachother' or something. You cannot force people to LIVE in a mixed - race melting pot if they don't want to. where you live is up to you - if you want to live near family that's your business, no one else's.

So - the real problem is that you see a natural means of existance in which people choose to live and THINK there's something wrong with it.
 
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