Burst your own bubble son!

I make racist jokes, with all kinds of people who share that humor with me. It’s not funny to some people, and to some, its offensive. To me, it is nothing more then a joke but that’s because I love to joke about almost everything possible. I can begin with the person’s face, move on to personality and end with their mother. It’s a jolly good time mate.

To believe that certain kind of people are inferior in status then yourself, is defined as pride. It is beyond the jokes and stereotypes of cultures, religions. I am a Punjabi Pakistani; I am engaged to a Gujrati, Indian. He speaks another language, and his culture is like my culture, on the exception of his yellow rice and weird spices. We are the same religion, which is what mattered to me. I assumed others might feel slightly awkward about the seldom cultural differences, except it went much beyond that. I can’t speak from his side of the extended family, but as for mine, it was as if I had gotten engaged to a toad. They had nothing but negative comments towards the type of people they are, keeping in mind that they had (and still have not) ever met them. My parents, siblings and I are much more open minded about these matters, we are more concerned of the religion then the race or culture. I’m sure language can be a barrier, except that fact is, that we both speak English. This feeling of looking down upon another culture, country, and race is what racism is. Racism is pride. Pride is evil

The kind of pride that is wrong is the kind when a person feels they are better than others, or that others are not good enough as ones self. That kind of pride is the puffed up kind and that person is just becoming a target for someone else to let all that air out. It's much safer, if nothing else, to stay humble. That is not to say you cannot know you or people similar to you might have a talent and training in some area that others might not have -- math, those dashing good looks, amazing non-stinky food or whatever it may be. But what will keep that pride in check is knowing and understanding that every other person alive has some area they are good in and most of them are areas you are not good in. They are created no different then yourself. And that every single person alive is an 'on purpose' person, and not an accident. In that sense, we are all quite equal, and any sense of pride which makes a person feel he or she is above others is just their own personal ignorance.