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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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[–] nesc@lemmy.cafe 3 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Race isn't really important to anyone but americans? There is racism everywhere, obviously, but race itself isn't important.

[–] Fondots@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Kind of depends on how you define "race" (it's pretty much scientifically meaningless, so define it however the hell you like)

But we have several currently ongoing attempts at genocide happening around the world, that to me tells me that a hell of a lot of people out there care a whole lot about race.

American racism is particularly odd to me due to how broadly we categorize race, trying to lump people into a black/white/Hispanic/Asian/etc. category based on not much more than skin color. And we're also unusuallly open about the fact that racism is a thing here. A lot of the world kind of keeps it more on the down-low.

But if you go with narrower definitions of race, you'll see the same kind of things happening around the world as in America. I've seen people from the UK talk about Polish immigrants in much the same way people here talk about Mexicans, and that's not even going into the cluster fuck of how much of Europe treats Romani people. A whole lot of people in Asian countries have issues with other people from other Asian countries, or even different ethnic groups within their own countries (like Uyghurs in china.) Parts of Africa are patchworks of different ethnic groups that are often at each other's throats, and of course South Africa is still a long way from having its shit fully sorted out. A lot of white Australians have pretty significant biases against Aboriginal people.

I could go on.

[–] nesc@lemmy.cafe 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

In my understanding term race always comes to phenotype. In my opinion difference in ethnicity is considerably less important then nationality in other parts of the world. There is casual racism of course, but people judge you mostly not because you look like southern european, but because you are greek for example.

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