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Racism in South East Asia
astarmathsandphysics:
By social darwinism I mean some cultures are better than others. The British had little culture once but travelled widely adopting the cultures of others.
It is a path to success to copy the ideas of others if they are better than yours.
So Japan copied western technology and China has copied western capitalism. Both countries thrived.
It is a path to failure to think your ways better - like the French and much of Africa.
sabbath_92:
Races do not exist as genetically discrete groups as there isn’t enough genetic variation between DEMOGRAPHICS of a large number of humans from different ethnicities (reading a DICTIONARY will make you realize that the word is related to the part of the world/culture you are from and doesn’t relate to race) and this is seldom argued in the scientific community.
Whether or not this is because you think the topic is controversial is a different thing altogether, and when you have sufficient knowledge about genetics to not put forward something like humans are not the same as a banana (lmao), you are going to make a breakthrough in this field. Till then please stop polluting this thread with this nonsense, the keyword in the original post was ‘racism’ and it’s affects. Keeping the discussion there would be nice as this isn't going anywhere. End of.
sabbath_92:
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It is a path to failure to think your ways better.
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Not when you are debating ;)
astarmathsandphysics:
I think they are saying there is more variation within ethnic groups than between ethnic groups.
Anyway ethnic is misleading. Serbs and croats are not different ethnic groups but they still hate each other. I can imagine a situation where some cult somewhere shuts themselve off for a hundred years, emerges and speaks slightly differently and finds themselves discriminated against by a society that has moved on.
SpongeBob:
--- Quote from: sabbath_92 on September 19, 2010, 07:29:16 am ---Well to be honest, it's probably not as profound, since there aren't that many 'races' as the Indian subcontinent is not as diverse as the more developed countries. What I'm talking about is more akin to the term 'colourism', or the caste system or just any kind of discrimination based on things one wouldn't have control of. Say how the caste system in India still prevails, or how the Hazara ethnic group in Afghanistan are discriminated against because they are deemed 'inferior'. Has there been progress made in order to counteract these backward notions, or does it seem like we are bound to live with this ignorance for a long time to come? What are your thoughts on these? Do you ever find yourself discriminating someone on things like this?
I was watching the kite runner a moment ago, and this came to my mind :p, and I don't know if this is the appropriate board, but yah serious issue we are talking about here.
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No child-black,brown,red,white or yellow is born racist. And haha when a child is born, he doesn't know whether he is a banana or a fruitfly or a human..so haha.
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