Men wear a gallon of cologne and women bathe in perfume.

Their laundry smells of either super-strength dryer sheets (1 box per dryer load) or 1 bottle of strong scented fabric softener.

Hell, I can’t even go out in my yard sometimes because I can smell those dryers shooting out that stench into a 300 foot radius from their house.

It doesn’t matter what the skin color of a person is, if they behave as I outlined above, I am going to have an issue.

As Jason said, I may become a “culturist”.

This is an issue, where an intellectual can spend years debating, but a common guy who doesn’t have or won’t spend time, thinking about such things, will find it easier to lump everyone into a single category.

I always wondered how racism came to be, and now I think, at least in part, I understand.

Simply acknowledging the above doesn’t make you a racist. Acting on the above doesn’t make you a racist either — there are real problems that are correlated with racial groups, and treating race as a blind spot can hinder solving them. What would make you a racist is treating individuals differently because of the above. For fairness, we want equal opportunity. Even if it were shown that blue-skinned people were, on average, genetically 10% dumber and 10% more violent than green-skinned people, there would still be a few brilliant blue-skinned people. Having an equitable society means that if someone were born blue-skinned, if that individual was a smart and as hard working as a given green-skinned person, he or she would have the exact same opportunities to succeed. People wouldn’t treat her or him differently because of the group they belonged to.

That’s the goal you should strive for. Be angry at the Mexican kids messing up your neighborhood. Be resentful of the medical benefits that your taxes pay for. Just don’t take it out on individual Mexicans. If there’s a Mexican in your community who is smart, friendly, and hardworking, treat him or her the same as your white friends. If there’s a white guy who is as violent as the Mexican vandals, treat them the same as the Mexican vandals. Do it because of who they are, rather than because of what group they belong to.

Some very well thought out posts on here.

I love hearing from you all.

It has given me a lot to think about.

Contrast to the Cubans, immigrants who came fleeing Communism and are comprised of mostly middle-class well-educated people and professionals. They are hispanic like these Mexicans, but they are law-abiding productive people and have become quite rich. Visit Miami if you want to check it out.

Also compare to the upper and middle class Mexicans in Mexico. The point is that education and socio-economic status is what matters, not race.

Race is unchangeable. We don’t ask for it. We can’t change it. Culture, on the other hand, is eminently changeable. And all cultures are NOT created equal. Culture is not special. Not precious. Not above criticism. It’s just human software. Features differ. Some cultures have important components missing. It’s a fact, and we should stop tip-toeing around it. After all, culture can be changed, it just takes some courage on the part of the individual.

Don’t become a racist. Become a “culturist”.

If you don’t want your kids hanging out with friends that teach them gang signs, that’s fine. If they get some new friends, and you don’t want them hanging out with them because you *assume* they will be a bad influence because they are *also* Mexican, that’s prejudice.

Judge all you want. Just don’t prejudge.

The criminal element in your town may be traceable to a particular cultural group. That doesn’t mean it’s racial. It doesn’t mean other members of that group do everything the group does.