| mchaza said: The problem when it comes to Race/Reglion/cultural differences is that as Humans we band together in Societies built on trust (and fear), but trust on each other, and as so they like it that if everyone has the same beliefs and culture so they know who they are when really they dont. Colour of skin doesn't matter its the culture that comes with that skin difference that people dont get. We dont decrimate purely on skin color, we associate there culture with an phyiscal feature to indentiy the people with the same culture and those not, and Skin color is one. Clothes is another major factor in judging people. What happened over the past 100 years with European expanion and the introduction of global travel, migration and tourism, people are living all over the place like never before when boarders, oceans or natural land barriers sepearated each other. Because of that we have people from other cultures mixing with others. While they can get along very well like in Europe people dont care living in each country because they have very simular cultures but let say an rural African person moving in. The person is different and unknown to the local people, therefore they associated as "Threats" to there way of life to otherwised proved not. Now this isn't for everyone, some dont care others do. Some cultures mix really well and adapt to others for example here in Australia and heavily European settled region, allowed Asian people to live here from the 1970s on wards and many have taken on the Australian-european culture and adapted very well and the responds have been overall accepting. Other cases can be not so well. I can tell you now, heavy hate towards one culture of people who have migrated to one nation is when those people either 1. dont adapt to the native populations culture, or 2. inforce change which can cause disconent between the two cultures.Now the Europeans tried this globally and they got there hand handed to them for doing so, and they aren't doing it anymore, but now the reversal is trying to happen and there are two sides, 1. side saying hold on we dont want this, and other who dont care and the people trying to enforce change calling the "racism" or "prejudice" call with the other half backing them, whcih is something that isn't going down so well. Really there will be always hate in the current society and it wont stop until 1. all members of that society mix into one equal culture of simular beleifs and way of life (something people are trying to do called political correctness), 2. The pubic preception of the other cultures negatives go away for example the current trend that "all muslims are terrorists" isn't going to help the Muslims who aren't get in on some societies. So when we mix so much that we are all an mix between yellow and brown skin an speak english and all paise nothing or one thing is when there will no racial hate. |
This is actually very interesting.
I really need to go back on my sociology notes and books. This is actually what made me bring this up along with my Understanding diversity class from last semester. I do recall their being a social pyramid about how our society is currently set up.
I enjoyed reading what you had to say, but perhaps I am too rusty to have the conversation I was wanting out of this. I do know a good book on exactly this type of stuff though. its called Race Class &Gender. It has all kinds of information and is probably where I will start reresearching on this subject again. It is very eye opening and has first hand accounts of different major events and smaller personal ones.
