Re: Lorton Man Shot, Killed in Driveway
Date: June 11, 2008 09:59PM
So they should listen to yours???
That was my own personal opinion, in terms of what is accepted nowadays, when referring to anyone from the area of the "evildoers'. Any idiot knows that Middle Eastern is not an ethnicity, just like Hispanic isn't a race either, rather it is a grouping used in terms of culture, location, and religion. Hispanic people are white, black, and even Asian. In America, they like to group, classify, and categorize people via census polls, SAT's, applications, and surveys. Geographically, Afghanistan is considered to be part of Asia (technically Southwest Asia), and most of its populace are descendants of Indo Europeans (caucasian/aryan tribes) who migrated east. Although Turkey is considered almost European, they have a strict Muslim doctrine enforced by the Gov't. Everything I said in my earlier post was factually sound (from the ethnic breakdown of Afghani people to it's location: Southwest Asia.) The only thing you did not agree w/ is my personal opinion that the Middle Eastern connotation, while innacurate, factually unsound, and inappropriate in terms of nomenclature, is used widely and accepted in the geo-political spectrum and present day world we live in (i.e. the U.S. influenced and dominated planet).
In other words, who's the dummy, dummy?????
BTW what University did you attend, Einstein???
chris Wrote:
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> > > Afghani-s are NOT middle-eastern
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> >
> > ORLY? Then what are they? I know Pashtuns and
> > Tajiks make up 3/4 of the population, and
> > although descendandants of the ancient aryan
> > tribes (Persians/Iranians), I would not
> consider
> > them to be aryan by modern day standards, and
> > would have to defer to the middle eastern
> > conatation. It's just like how there are many
> > Hispanics who are white and of European
> ancestry,
> > but that doesn't change the fact that
> ethnically
> > and culturally, they are still Hispanic.
>
>
> Just to clarify DeathByCop, Afghanistan is not a
> part of the Middle East, nor is the Middle East an
> ethnicity or culture. If you were a smart and
> intelligent adult, you would know the term "Middle
> East" was formed by Britain during the beginning
> of the 20th Century when they were the superpower
> of the world, and what does that tell us? That the
> area we call the Middle East today is East of
> Britain and in the Middle, since the Far East is
> Asia.
>
> Afghanistan is not a Middle Eastern and I hope no
> one goes by the map posted by PGens, because if
> you search it, you find he took it from Wikipedia.
> Great research!
>
> There are 25 Middle Eastern countries, ranging
> from North Africa to Iran. Also, out of the 25, 22
> are Arab countries, since Turkey, Iran, and Israel
> do not speak Arabic.
>
> If we had people with this kind of knowledge and
> realized that the Middle East is not a CULTURE,
> since there are MANY cultures within this region,
> perhaps we would not stereotype.
>
> Just clarifying so other people do not listen to
> DeathByCop's bullshit.
>
> :-)
Edited 5 time(s). Last edit at 06/11/2008 10:25PM by DeathByCop.