Animalinstinct
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Don’t mean to necessarily stir things up, but I think about this often. Living in a 99% caucasian country, I often catch myself feeling animosity towards the occasional person of color I see in the street. I’m not super proud of it especially since the modern society dogma obviously says this is wrong, but it just feels so primal. This tribal feeling of a foreign threat. Yes on one hand you can dismiss it as primitive racism, but isn’t it inherently in all of us? I’m not a violent person, certainly don’t advocate violence, and I’m certainly not a nationalist or white supremacist or anything similar. I honestly don’t even think very highly of my race or my nation, but when faced with a foreign race element I quickly realize where I belong and come from.
If a group of African persons ventured into any European town one thousand years ago, they would most likely be killed. One a sole basis of primal protection. I think even today for a white person to venture into a central African jungle, or a poor lawless muslim region would very likely result in their death. Because those people still live by their tribal instincts where a foreign element represents a security threat (aside from a looting or a raping opportunity, or what have you).
Now obviously we have been suppressing these primitive instincts for decades, and there’s some good and some nobility and civility to that, but to what outcome? Most if not all multicultural nations have major problems with racial and cultural clashes. These aren’t just extremists, the situation in the US shows just how impossible it is for blacks and white to trully coexist. And I am not talking about violence, but about how race is a factor in everything, in regular people’s interactions and existence. On the immigration side, welcoming of these foreign elements inevitably leads to suppresion if not erradication of the original culture, and I honestly don’t think the immigrants can be blamed for that. They are behaving very human, and do what comes naturally to people - which certainly isn’t assimilation, especially once you’re not such a tiny minority.
So I guess what I am trying to ponder is how much are we all racist on a fundamental level, considering how natural and logical racism seems to be from an evolutionary perspective.
If a group of African persons ventured into any European town one thousand years ago, they would most likely be killed. One a sole basis of primal protection. I think even today for a white person to venture into a central African jungle, or a poor lawless muslim region would very likely result in their death. Because those people still live by their tribal instincts where a foreign element represents a security threat (aside from a looting or a raping opportunity, or what have you).
Now obviously we have been suppressing these primitive instincts for decades, and there’s some good and some nobility and civility to that, but to what outcome? Most if not all multicultural nations have major problems with racial and cultural clashes. These aren’t just extremists, the situation in the US shows just how impossible it is for blacks and white to trully coexist. And I am not talking about violence, but about how race is a factor in everything, in regular people’s interactions and existence. On the immigration side, welcoming of these foreign elements inevitably leads to suppresion if not erradication of the original culture, and I honestly don’t think the immigrants can be blamed for that. They are behaving very human, and do what comes naturally to people - which certainly isn’t assimilation, especially once you’re not such a tiny minority.
So I guess what I am trying to ponder is how much are we all racist on a fundamental level, considering how natural and logical racism seems to be from an evolutionary perspective.