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[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Oh I'm well aware of China's racism, but that doesn't mean the whole world is a hivemind of race-based thinking. Far from it, especially as civilization matures. There's pockets of it, but to say it all comes down to that is honestly childish

[–]KraigGronowski 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I should report your posts for dragging down discussion, aka low on the pyramid, whos the admin around here? ;-)

First I didn't say "the whole world is a hivemind of race-based thinking". But interesting you would bring that point, because where ever there is racial differentiation, there is something that has caused it. Be that usually geography, but there is a genetic component and that component is quite present, I would say almost universal. I have liked Brett Weinsteins talks on it ( https://youtu.be/2WEIU16BPPw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G59zsjM2UI), as a program that exists in us that when active allows things like the holocaust. China is dangerously like Nazi Germany. The mistake the west would make is to think it couldn't happen again, and especially because it is not a white nation. The other mistake is to think that white people are the pinnacle or naturally superior race or culture, only history will prove that and China has a lot of history on it's side already. Needless to say a war with a nation the size of China likely won't have any winner. I find the China perspective on race quite relieving and logical, they laugh at us with our "political correct" concepts. I have to say the cult of intersectionalism plays right into Chinas advantage and I would be surprised if they weren't pushing on it hard, given it is the end result of now dead Soviet programs to undermine America, that are proven very effective and difficult to end.

To answer you point more straightly, racial views are far more spread and universal than mere pockets, they are in our genes. I have come to this view on my own traveling the world talking to many people.

[–]magnora7 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I have also traveled the world and talked to many people, and that's exactly why I think it's such a shallow viewpoint. I was that other race, a lot of the time, and people were very kind and friendly to me, almost across the board. There's so many more factors at play, many with much more prominence and power.

[–]KraigGronowski 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

If your at kind and friendly you're looking at the veneer. It takes a bit to get deeper.

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Lol judging people's skin color is literally looking at the veneer, so I'm going to have to say my perspective is deeper.

[–]KraigGronowski 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Well it is and it isn't. Genetics don't quite work like that, in that the genes for skin color will have other effects. Skin color is used successfully as a group indicator, and as that it's a veneer but other traits have evolved around it such that as an indicator it indicates far more than it alone would.

You are correct that judging peoples skin color could be looking at just the veneer. It's much the same as the social customs of people which are generally polite and nice. In either case getting past the veneer is necessary to find what is actually there. The problem though is in most situations getting past a veneer is really not possible, so you usually have to generalize on what you have known in the past.

[–]mikipika 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's like watching a puppy chase it's own tail.