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Re: All too familiar (Score: 1)
by AliBabaIncorporated on Wednesday, October 23 @ 07:11:43 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) http://mixedasian.blogspot.com/ | Byron:
there is no distinction between racism and prejudice. Plenty of the "other factors" you point to are in fact, at the root, coming from genetic differences.
Throughout history people have used religion and ethical codes to justify hatred against outgroup members. Europeans used science. So what? Europeans didn't invent hatred based on race. Your assertion that "it's ethnic, not racial" with reference to the Tutsi-Hutu conflict, and that Indian castes can't be considered as race because you can't tell them apart by cursory visual inspection, shows that you're still following some fallacious definition of race based on visual heuristic.
In reality a race is simply an extremely extended family. Members of one extended family (e.g. tribe, ethnic group, race) will protect their own against outsiders. My village against the next village, our two villages against the invaders from across the river, all three of us against the invaders from the country next door. This is the root of racial feeling.
Basically you are trying to assert that before European scientists starting doing measurements and whatnot, people only discriminated based on "Ethnic Group" or "Culture," not race. If so, that makes European Racism one of the most successful ideas to spread throughout the world, if only a hundred-odd years after its invention everyone, from government officials in Malay establishing discriminatory quotas against Chinese people to Zimbabwean dictators trying to confiscate farmland, believes in it and uses it as a guiding principle to conduct their lives. By your assertion even those such as Muslims and Communists who have actively rejected other western ideologies somehow cling to this foreign ideology of European Racism.
Throughout history there are numerous such examples of conquerors who fought and defeated people of different races, but they did so because they wanted land or property, not because they hated or felt superior based on racial reasons.
Umm, how is this any different than what Europeans did? They invaded countries for the same reasons everyone else throughout history - they wanted money. After the fact they came up with theories to justify it. It's not like a bunch of scientists were measuring black people's skulls and said, "Hey, black people have small heads, let's go to Africa and enslave them and make colonies out of their countries." It was, in fact, the other way around. |
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