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[–]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.