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Why do people hate white racial consciousness?

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Original post by housat
When you talk about a country you talk about the culture and people, the land itself is insignificant really.


No, "country" (a term which doesn't really have much legal significance) is more often used as a synonym for "state". There are a few exceptions where subnational entities or regions are still considered "countries" for various historical or cultural reasons, like Scotland, Greenland, the Basque Country, etc. But even in the latter case it's generally used to mean that it is a country due to the distinct culture of the inhabitants, rather than that those inhabitants are the country.

Your description would more accurately describe a "nation", or perhaps even an "ethnicity".

And it's an accurate term, it just means Europeans and European derived people. Pretty obvious.


So "traditionally white countries" means "Europeans and European derived people"? That doesn't make sense. Bear in mind that the poster I was responding to specifically referred to "immigration to traditionally white countries ". You can't immigrate to a people, only to a state or a territorial area.
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Original post by anarchism101
No, "country" (a term which doesn't really have much legal significance) is more often used as a synonym for "state". There are a few exceptions where subnational entities or regions are still considered "countries" for various historical or cultural reasons, like Scotland, Greenland, the Basque Country, etc. But even in the latter case it's generally used to mean that it is a country due to the distinct culture of the inhabitants, rather than that those inhabitants are the country.

Your description would more accurately describe a "nation", or perhaps even an "ethnicity".



So "traditionally white countries" means "Europeans and European derived people"? That doesn't make sense. Bear in mind that the poster I was responding to specifically referred to "immigration to traditionally white countries ". You can't immigrate to a people, only to a state or a territorial area.


Pointless semantics...yawn. We all know what is meant by the fact that mass immigration is occuring to white countries. There is no debate to be had here, just pointless nitpicking over the definitions of words. And if a nation is a people and society represented by a government, you can indeed immigrate to a nation as you will be in that society and also have a vote, the ability to play a part of that nations cultural and political life etc.
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Original post by h3rmit
If you're talking about the main countries where "people hate white racial consciousness", so pretty much the USA and the UK, it's an inaccurate and quite hypocritical term.


The UK is not exceptional with regards to western Europe.

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