• Fushuan [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 hours ago

    I think we agree on viewpoints, we differ more on the definition of racism. I agree that racism classically has been about ethnicity, but in modern days it’s more broad. For example:

    In the Equality Act, race can mean your colour, or your nationality (including your citizenship).

    So if nationality can be qualified as a race, discrimination about nationality should be called racism.

    In any case, you can replace racist in my original comment with prejudicial (although racist sounds way more heavy, which is why I prefer it) and it’s true anyway.

    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      10 hours ago

      Yeah, I’ve seen some Legal Acts were discrimination on nationality was defined as Racism.

      I am very wary of using Racism for discrimination based on nationality because, having been victim of discrimination based on my Nationality whilst being an immigrant abroad and having the same “Race” as the people in that country (basically I look the same as they do) and also having seen the discrimination in that same country against acquaintances of mine with the same Nationality as me but not the same Race, the treatment I got was not the same as they got, prejudices against me were was far less frequent and those against them were far worse (though, this one time, negative culturally prejudiced expectations about me did snowball into something huge and highly damaging to me).