Originally Posted by: stacknyAm I racist? Hell no. The day you hear me telling my kids that the white race is superior to another race is a nonexistant day. I just see it as common courtesy of adapting the basic ways of a country when you move to it for your benefit. Nothing more.

Racism is when you see your race as superior to others. I do not. I may look at, for instance, Muslims and judge the motive of their terrorist attacks according to what our society and my religion determines as right or wrong without trying to further understand because I believe murder is wrong. Thats ethnocentrism. Ethnocentrism is inevitable if you hold any set law of moral standards such as the laws that the Bible tells us to obey.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=ethnocentric
eth·no·cen·trism Pronunciation Key (thn-sntrzm)
n.
Belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group.
Overriding concern with race.

For Christ's sake, make up your own goddamn rules in life. You don't need some dogma telling you what your stance is on everything. If you don't feel racist thoughts then don't claim to be ethocentric because you think your bible is making that impossible. It makes absolutely no sense. We are God's creation, yet at the same time he wants us to feel superior over another race? Even though he sent Jesus to tell everyone how he loves us equally? Where's the logic? Who ever said God works in mysterious ways wasn't kidding.