people are so afraid of themselves being branded as racists, especially white people 
Pretty much only whites have picked this up, sadly. If ONLY they knew it was true. One time I said Hispanic wasn't a race and everyone called me a racist. Little do they know it's an ethnicity...
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"If you worship your enemy, you are defeated.
If you adopt your enemy's religion you are enslaved.
If you breed with your enemy you are destroyed."
-Polydoros