Dunno anything about that line of work but if they need employees,......Sign me up, baby... :D

@Aaron, Sorry to hear that it's only possible to have a conversation with you if one agrees with your opinion. It's a pity that you didn't read further. As I said I don't say I am right or wrong but most of the stuff I write is based on facts and some even on common sense.

For example that racism doesn't exist naturally more or less with a certain group of people or specific races. It's a question of upbringing and don't let PC fool you by disguising racism.

Wow! It's a very interesting theory that NY only consist of laws, "name of a place and the name of a government and of institutions with actually existing practices, customs" but no conglomeration of individuals.
And since the law enforcment seems to be you base and root of racism. I wonder if 34.500 uniformed police in a city with more than 18.000.000 people is an accurate foundation to bring up a statement, that NY would be racist.

@Aaron:
It doesn't require the individual attitudes of new yorkers to be positively racist. This is how the world works-environments exist, customs exist, groups exist, practices exist. It does not come down to personal attitudes or to individuals.

Actually it does require a certain amount of individuals and to be exactly you need all NY individuals to be racsit to state; that NY is racist to be correct.

Or you need...51% at least to state that the NY majority is racist.
And that means you need all (or most) groups to be included not just the cops.
I agree customs exist, groups exist, practices exist but the way you put it, is not how the world works. And it comes always to the individual and personal attitutes and it's good that way.

I have a question though. If the Chicago fire-department would be considerably stupid, would you also say that the whole city of Chicago is dumb? Or would you state that the FireDept. is stupid?

I think you should do a bit more checking and research before you define racism.

But I really like the idea that NY is not a conglomeration of individuals...that's a good one :D

Hi Zitony, I didn't mean that! You are not an idiot...for real.

It just sounded so good in my head when I was writing it in the end of the post.
I did too I fell in love with China before I got here, and was quite disappointed when I saw the real "thing".

But I made the best out of it and found the things I was missing in the little details and in some of the wonderful people I met here, (especially in Yunnan).
I'm here happily for more than a decade. So I qualify as idiot as well, according to my own statement.

Or let's agree that we are both smart fellas, what do you think?

1) I think, it just is that easy. You write a title question defining your point of view to confirm the attitute you bring to a place that you have never visited under the disguise of the opposite of what you asking. Especially set in a question that is impossible to answer. No way easier than that, to put it in the way I did. I am not here to say it is right or wrong what I wrote but nontheless it's a valid point.

2) " Is New York racist?" (which it is, btw). Of course it's selfcontradictory becasue how can you define that N.Y. is rascist? What are the facts behind it, sure there are individulals that are racist, but I am sure that if you would research it to the tiniest little bit and all N.Y.'ers, of whom most are of a different race or minority, other than caucasian (and who is your base group, caucasians, asians..etc?)...and you will see that N.Y. is as racist as any other place in the world. Racism is no more or less in any specific place in the world, what you seem to differ is political correctness. There is a lot of research about this you can find essays about that online.

3) Dictonary Schmictonary.
Alright then, then open your encyclopedia and you will see that it even further confirms the definition I posted, which is btw. from an ecyclopedia

4) In fact they (the people devoting their life to study racism=Anthropologists) wouldn't, becasue they agree on certain definitions of what outlines racism (it's called empirical science) from there they build their research and results. But just check it yourself you will see in their essays that racism doesn't just start with people wearing white robes and smack up people with dark skin, but with tiny little stereotypes and prejudices and usually escalates through many possible triggers.
Btw. that's why I was indicating that Kunmingers are not a race but since it was a beautiful example to see aaron and zitony at the root of racism, but since Kunming has more than 4.000.000 Han Chinese followed by the Yi minority with only 400.000 (only 10% of the Han population). Showing that you have to be careful with statements like; "Kunming is racist"

5) Certainly, some people DO say things like, "Chinese people are racist".

....Yes that is a racist comment, I don't say that those people are racist but nonetheless it is a racist comment. And my advise is to find the reason why some people perceive China as racist, becasue no race or demographic on this planet is natural born racist. There is a reason for it and you will see and research proves it is through education and media that stereotypes and racism is enhanced or even promoted (to name some of the roots of the problem).

6) "Practices which promote racial stereotypes are currently practiced, in an unqualified way, with much less apparent censure, and with more common acceptance, in many parts of the current society in the country China,at least compared to where I from. This is a visible trend stemming from social conditions in a certain place today, and not from anything like an inherent characteristic of the Chinese race, which probably doesn't biologically exist anyway."

....It's not true, go to the media in any country in the world and you will find racism/ stereotypes and prejudice. In all its forms, individual, group or open or subtile racism similar to the what you quoted "unqualified way with a less apparent census."

What you differ again is the use of P.C. plus the trend in racism you experience in China is actually incorrect as a research paper about racism compared over the globe indicates.
I agree it won't reflect each individual view of the Chinese population but it's was build on a proper scientific research. So the best we got so far and I agree better than what we have here in the forums.

Little hint, watch mainstream Hollywood movies and check what minority most of the bad guys are ? it's incredible that almost every low level bad guy is African American/Hispanic/Asian...just anybody but caucasian. In general nothing reflecting the real bad guys in the real world according to Police Reports of those areas and districts.

And that's just movies.

7)
Of course noone will put this definition in the beginning of his/her statement (first becasue it's partially incorrect) plus for the obvious potential 'noise' in their communication model.

Zitony's post meets one requirement and that's the first. He is not an idiot but in terms of point b.) "they are using terms, ways of speaking, themes, questions, etc. that wouldn't make sense without underlying universalist assumptions."

.....He (Zitony) doesn't have the background knowledge[scientific], terminology and definition to indicate what racism is [according to his own statements], to find his own racial prejudice [or it's softer version generalisation of a social demographic] or the ones of others and he has pre-set mind indicating that he is not trying to find a real answer to his question but rather confirming his prejudice=that Kunming is racist. which "is" as we know now, -a racial prejudice towards a certain racial/social group of people, that he has never met, since he has never been to China.

Plus he says he fell in love with a romantic illusion of a place and people he hasn't seen yet and feels frustrated about when getting closer to it, I think he qualifies for the point a.) of your post.....that he is an idiot.

Here we go again foreigner this, foreigner that, foreigner bla,bla,bla.
What a big deal, once in Beijing while walking opposite the Military museum on a little grass section, there was a fat ugly Asian fella (supposedly local) merrily masturbating while people walking by, didn't make it into any blog (not that I was looking forward to see his picture again..lol).
An friend of wine was stalked, exposed to male genitalia and she said that happened sometime here.
If you look into it, it's all around, but one idiot foreign girl starving for attention, or losing a bet and the whole foreign culture is under fire again. Boooooooring, (not the picture, though.lol)
Good it was a woman, guess it's less cruel, if it's female nudity. :)

Good that everyone in China (western or chinese, female or male) never watches porn, goes to funny KTV, never cheats, prays all day, never drinks carelessly, right?

Anyway she got what she wanted...Attention! Btw as much as I know in China public nudity is a misdemeanor, different to many other countries.

Need to go now, have to undress and walk Wenhua Xiang... :D