America is a continent (two to be fair, North and South), not a race.
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here friend, have a wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism
Racist ideology can become manifest in many aspects of social life. Racism can be present in social actions, practices, or political systems (e.g., apartheid) that support the expression of prejudice or aversion in discriminatory practices. Associated social actions may include nativism, xenophobia, otherness, segregation, hierarchical ranking, supremacism, and related social phenomena.
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Yah, that crap isn't changing my mind. Being a synonym of a word does not mean it's the exact same thing.
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Yes it does, that's literally the meaning of a synonym.
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syn·o·nym
ˈsinəˌnim/
noun
a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language, for example shut is a synonym of close.Emphasis on the word nearly.
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Racist ideology can become manifest in many aspects of social life. Racism can be present in social actions, practices, or political systems (e.g., apartheid) that support the expression of prejudice or aversion in discriminatory practices. Associated social actions may include nativism, xenophobia, otherness, segregation, hierarchical ranking, supremacism, and related social phenomena.
Emphasis on the sentence "Associated social actions may include nativism, xenophobia, otherness, segregation, hierarchical ranking, supremacism, and related social phenomena."
I think that segregating half of a continent and calling ourselves "THE TRUE 'MERICA" is a pretty clear case of xenophobia, hierarchical ranking and obviously segregation. Since you seem so cultured, do look up segregation, and tell me that what was said isn't that.
Also, Casty didn't give you a synonym, he gave you the definition of racism.
And to be honest, Disgustingsteam's joke wasn't even bad, I even chuckled, but putting that shit under the rug isn't right, even though it was harmless.
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He gave me a wikipedia link, that is not the definition of racism. The definition of racism is as follows. You can look around for more definitions in various dictionaries, and they will be worded differently, but share the same concept overall.
rac·ism
ˈrāˌsizəm/
noun
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a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human racial groups determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to dominate others or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others.
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a policy, system of government, etc., based upon or fostering such a doctrine; discrimination.
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hatred or intolerance of another race or other races.
Where 2 says "based upon or fostering such a doctrine" it is referencing the description of point 1 being practiced in policy or government.
As for whether or not he gave me a synonym directly is of little importance, and yes I'm aware that they are not all catergorized as synonyms to one another by every source, but the wikipedia and it's description seems heavily based on the construction of them all being synonym's, with the false belief as you posted above that synonym's are the "exact" same thing.
As for Xenophobia, the word itself annoys me because it is another perversion of the English language, a Phobia has nothing to do with hatred, so it's a poor excuse for a word to be accepted into the language. As for his comment being Xenophobic, by the definition of Xenophobia, no it's not, as there is no clear indication of fear or hatred towards people of other nationalities. The most it could be considered as is nationalism. If people want to assume believing your country is superior to another is somehow discriminatory, they're wrong. Some countries can very well be superior, and if people think otherwise, why in the hell do they leave their countries to go to ones like the USA. If every country was equal, everyone should be happy where they are.
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Well, I see synonyms as something either exactly the same or so frighteningly similar you can't tell the difference.
Also, 2 indicates the exact segregation I mentioned, at least in my eyes.
Either way, it's arguing over nothing, I'd rather agree to disagree.
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Yah, see that's the thing with synonyms is that they are so similar, but there is always a difference. The wikipedia writers just assume because so many of the words are synonyms of discrimination or bigotry though, that they're all intertwined, when in actuality, they are merely all branches of the wider definition of those original words. Example being...
dis·crim·i·na·tion
dəˌskriməˈnāSH(ə)n/
noun
treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit:
Because of how broad the definition is for that, racism is considered a synonym, because it's a form or discrimination (racial) based on a group or category. Xenophobia can also be considered a synonym of discrimination because it's discrimination based on once again, a group or category. However, that group or category doesn't fall into race, but rather foreigners/outsiders. Thus racism and xenophobia are not actually synonyms of one another, but because they are both synonyms of discrimination, people just act as though they are synonyms of one another, when in actuality, they are more specific categorizations of discrimination, to reduce how broad a statement can be interpreted.
As for the point on 2. the "; discrimination" is a method of indicating that the specific description is in relation to the discrimination previously mentioned in the definition. If you look at another source for example, instead of the "; discrimination", they better present the definition as.
2
a : a doctrine or political program based on the assumption of racism and designed to execute its principles
b : a political or social system founded on racism
One way or another, the discrimination has to be based on race for it to be classified as racism. A political program based on the assumption men are superior to women would not be racism, it would be sexism, yet another branch of discrimination.
Edit: Just adding this to state there is a possibility I misunderstood you at some point throughout this, sorry if that's the case, it's late and I'm tired. In addition, reading back on previous posts, I see I worded some stuff poorly, which could have led to further confusion.
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I totally agree with you though, racist as an insult is being used too lightly these days, the joke was totally harmless, and Casty kinda overreacted, but still, that was racism in my opinion, but completely harmless and good natured. So I see it as okay.
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Yah, my initial comment was merely to be a smartass because he took the original comment way to serious and/or out of context.
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I do see how it can be taken as racist, but as you said the Americas is a continent or two (depending on where you live geography is taught differently). The original comment did give off racist vibes though.
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Apparently I started a race war.
One true merica was referring to how north korea refers to itself..
Also referring to north america.. which has global or row keys in store >.>
That's racist somehow though.
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People tend to overreact sometimes, which is fine... I understand their side but, in my opinion, the world should had a better humor...
And deep inside I know I'm going to be blacklisted because of this commentary...
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buy csgo/tf2 keys from the market, then trade them for row gifts. no other option from almighty and fair valve.
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Any particular place I can search for these kinds of trades?
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also https://dispenser.tf but it's only for steam gifts, so it's usually more expensive than trading keys.
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Some parts in Europe too, if I'm not mistaken. But if you really want no region locked, by from bundle sites but they offer steam keys instead
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Buy from sites that sell steam keys except the steam store. There are lots of sites, bundlestars(global unless stated?), Indiegala, greenmangaming, hrkgame(will have global tag), gamersgate. (I believe Humble bundle still may or may not randomly region lock some games based on your location so to be safe I'd stay away for region-free gifting purposes)
...and well if you really want to G2A(will have region tags) or kinguin which are grey markets. Personally even if I might be tempted to buy something from grey market for myself I wouldn't recommend them for gifting in case there are any problems with the key.
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Thanks for the tip, I'll take a look in these sites.!
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You basically have 2 options:
Option 1) buy from nuuvem.com. Although they are brazilian most of their keys aren't region locked. Just check the game on steamdb before buying. You can pay using brazilian reais.
Option 2) Buy from stores like humblebundle, bundlestars, indiegale and so on, using american dollars. (Don't buy from publishers like 2k, they region-lock your game by your ip, it doesn't matter if you paid using dollars, euros or whatever. I think Deep Silver does that too.)
I heard that some people use VPNs to acess american steam, but I'm not sure. Never tried and never will. I'd stick with option 1 or 2.
Source: I'm brazilian and I had to discover all this stuff to create giveaways here. Boa sorte por aqui :)
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Never bought from Nuuvem, but I'll try it soon, as I haven't seen any complain about this site yet.
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They are legit. You can read their terms of use if you want. They are an authorized seller unlike G2A, Kinguin and other grey markets.
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- Find a friend you can trust in the desired region
- Use teamviewer or a similar program to gift yourself games from that region via his account
Hardest part is to find someone you can trust, but it's braindead easy afterwards.
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If you mean Steam gifts as in the gifts you can store in your Steam inventory, then no. Technically you could use a VPN, but that goes against a good number of rules. And while Valve doesn't seem to care if people use that to buy games for themselves, they are pretty twitchy when it comes to gift purchases. So very, very, very not recommended.
If you mean gifts as in being able to put up on this site as a giveaway, then most legit key sites sell ROW keys and you can also ask people from cheaper ROW regions (New Zealand, Canada, Norway, Japan) to buy the gift for you, although I suggest paying in PayPal as Steam wallet payments with their fees will not really worth it.
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from cheaper ROW regions (New Zealand, Canada, Finland, Japan)
Bold mine. Finland is not cheap, unless Germany or France is considered cheap as well. (EU 1)
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Going from a cheaper to expensive region, I bet Valve wouldn't mind.
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Find a seller who will sell you ROW steam gifts for Paylal/csgo keys or sth marketable
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Couldn't trust grey market with keys for giveaway, since the key could not work and it would prejudice the giveaway winner and me..
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Buy game keys from sites like Humble Bundle (assuming that's not region-locked, but who knows. You could check)
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I've seen some humble bundle giveaways with region lock, but I may be wrong... Gonna have a look in the site. Thanks!
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I wanted to make a train, but all I can do for now is this South America region locked giveaway... Sorry guys... :/
If there's some way to buy games to giveaway without region lock, please teach me!
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