Re: Why Beijing?

["Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joachim Pense wrote:
> Am Sat, 30 Dec 2006 09:38:12 -0500 schrieb Brian M. Scott:
>
> > On 30 Dec 2006 05:58:17 -0800, "Peter T. Daniels"
> > <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> > <news:1167487097.305657.21080@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > in sci.lang:
> >
> >> Aidan Kehoe wrote:
> >
> >
> >>> One place where such a correlation is clear is in Los
> >>> Angeles, where ethnic Persians are distinctly wealthier
> >>> than the mean.
> >
> >> Do you know racists who think of Persians (Iranians??) as
> >> a "race"?
> >
> > They are an ethnicity, which was the term actually used by
> > Ranjit.
> >
>
> Isn't "racism" often used nowadays to denote prejudices agains
> ethnicities?

Racists don't generally put much truck in the biological finding that
there's no such thing as "races" ...