Ethnic: a social group that shares a common and distinctive culture, religion, language, or the like.
the definition of ethnicity
Why is it that some individuals succeed in this country while others do not? If it was a just a question of race, then virtually no members of an oppressed racial minority should be able to succeed in general society.
The answer is that ethnicity, not race, is a much greater determinate of success. Those who subscribe to the norms of greater society are uniformly more successful than those who do not. Members of any race who glorify illiteracy, single parenthood, drugs, criminal activity, overt sexualization and violence are condemning themselves (and their children) to lives of poverty, resentment and despair. In other words, they will be born, live and die without ever experiencing the freedom to participate in the outside world.
I propose to refer to these people, of any race, as "hoods." They do not respect any of the virtues of successful society and are hell-bent on destroying it in order to justify their dysfunctional existences. Engaging in sophistic debate about who's "fault" this is beside the point: These people are the only ones who can redeem themselves through a change in their own attitudes. Meddling social experimentation and excuses only serve to put off this day of reckoning. The only thing the rest of us can do is to condemn this destructive behavior and disparagingly refer to the people who engage in it as hoods.
the definition of ethnicity
Why is it that some individuals succeed in this country while others do not? If it was a just a question of race, then virtually no members of an oppressed racial minority should be able to succeed in general society.
The answer is that ethnicity, not race, is a much greater determinate of success. Those who subscribe to the norms of greater society are uniformly more successful than those who do not. Members of any race who glorify illiteracy, single parenthood, drugs, criminal activity, overt sexualization and violence are condemning themselves (and their children) to lives of poverty, resentment and despair. In other words, they will be born, live and die without ever experiencing the freedom to participate in the outside world.
I propose to refer to these people, of any race, as "hoods." They do not respect any of the virtues of successful society and are hell-bent on destroying it in order to justify their dysfunctional existences. Engaging in sophistic debate about who's "fault" this is beside the point: These people are the only ones who can redeem themselves through a change in their own attitudes. Meddling social experimentation and excuses only serve to put off this day of reckoning. The only thing the rest of us can do is to condemn this destructive behavior and disparagingly refer to the people who engage in it as hoods.