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Unfolding Nature Shop: Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order

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Invisiblelaughingdog
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Re: categorizing racism [Re: benniesmitters]
    #23814484 - 11/08/16 10:47 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

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... we tend to divide eachother and ourselves. Blacks tend to have mostly black friends, whites have mostly white friends, latinos mostly latinos. ....this is just how i think our brain works). So we are cautious to other people/xenofobic. Thats completely normal. But the way we act upon it, that's our own choice. Thats the beauty about being human, we have a (semi)free will. But in first reaction we can be a bit racist, but hey, we cant be totally perfect can we?




Partially agree - the moral reality is different from the anthropological reality -- seems neanderthal man and cro-magnon man both inter bred and competed, for example.

Anthropology is very interesting. Cultures have varied greatly in levels of compassion. And if we go even further into the core of life and study zoology we find a totally amoral world, with many horrors.

And in the present, exactly as you say, our personalities and biases are what they are after 10 or 60 years of life, but we always have some choice in how we express ourselves.


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Re: categorizing racism [Re: laughingdog]
    #23814579 - 11/08/16 11:13 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

The whole issue seems further complicated by culture. Take black music. A one point Louis Armstrong was cool, then we got discordant jazz, then rapp, hip hop, funk etc... In the late 50s early 60s blacks straightened their hair and wanted to drive cadillacs -- aspiring to seemingly 'white' 'values' -- but in the late 60's afro 'haircuts' were the thing only to be replaced by dreds. At any time if a 'white' person found fault with the latest fashion some would have considered them racist. Even what is considered 'their' name is fluid: negro, black, african american, person of color, non white ...
Meanwhile the whole country of "America" seems to have gone backwards with all the recent police shootings, etc. There seem to be so many problems in society at large, that singling out racism as an issue, may be somewhat artificial. It would seem poverty and lack of education and critical reasoning skills along with the rise of corporations as legal entities with individual rights, among other things, have gutted this country. What goes on in other countries I know even less about.


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