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Image #1: The people who write stuff like this really need to specify which "researchers" "proved" this, and exactly how and in what sense they proved it. Also, it's wrong. Humans are all one species, yes, but "one people" usually refers to a single ethnic group, and is too vague to be meaningful in this context. There isn't a consensus that "ultra-violet light, latitude and climate" were the main factors that led to regional differences in human skin color and other features. Sexual selection, operating on different physical traits in different areas, was more likely the dominant factor -- it usually is, when you see a species with a very large geographical range which shows local differences in superficial physical appearance.
ReplyDeleteYes, we're all made from the same "star dust", but so what? So are lizards, octopuses, ferns, rocks, etc.
Fighting racism is an important cause, but it really is not helpful to associate it with naïve rhetoric that frankly sounds rather silly.
Infidel - Gee, what a party-pooper.
Delete"So what?" We're all (all living things) made of the same sulphur, phosphorous, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, and hydrogen, and you say, "So what?"!! It's pretty great and pretty meaningful on all levels, including at last the moral. Set beside this fundamental fact, race and gender are very recent, highly superficial, human made and human exploited constructs applied and often forced upon us. Of course it is demonstrable that we all tend biologically and instinctively to prefer our families and people who look like us; that's why there's no greater fact in our world than that we are all one family!
DeleteAnon@6:30am - Thank you for your comment.
DeleteA while back, there was a segment on "NOVA" (or something similar on PBS) that searched the routes of "mankind", noting the various diversions of when humans appeared on various parts of the various continents, from the acknowledged "origin" starting point.
ReplyDeleteThe "researcher" doing the research took blood samples from various people of the various regions, to compare DNA of each group. The orientation was that knowing the blood composition/genetics of people from "the origin area", then similar data from other areas, some sense could be made as to which group migrated from where, ages ago. Perhaps the DNA from earliest humans played into these findings, too?
I also highly suspect there are many other questions to be answered! Like how did the hairy beasts of the Savana evolve into the light-haired, more-hairless beings of Scandinavia? Gene mutations and DNA trauma, perhaps? As international gene pools have been mixing for centuries, some questions might never be conclusively answered!
ONE instinct from earlier times seems to still be at play in our modern world. "Be afraid of those not like you, initially." Differences in skin color, language, hair amounts, or other physical attributes are all included in the "be afraid" orientation. Then figure in "amount of education", or perceptions thereof, and things can get very wonky. Relative "superiority" then rears its head! Which then can lead to paranoia and anxiety issues. Then things go downhill from there.
"Racism" and "superiority" are learned values, but values which have some root in the "Be afraid of others" we were taught when young, as a "survival skill". To counteract the natural inquisitiveness we are born with.
"Survival of the fittest" will always be operative, whether in genetics, mental skills, looks, or physical attributes and skills. Which can then lead to the "superiority" orientations. Strong against weak, or the perceived weak. Some feel the need to dominate others, or be dominant in gender issues.
In younger lives, we all had people we looked up to, some outside of our family circle. People we wanted to be like or emulate their success. Now, many are called "influencers" who are trying to sell us something or get us to believe a certain way. We all have our heroes! Many are "better than us", it seems. Just as learning whom to listen to is very important in how we do things. Some "voices" are not credible in all respects. Using deductive reasoning to determine whom to listen to can result in failures, by observation. Or giving some people far too much power over others.
We want these people to "know something" about what they do, so they can do it better. Funny thing is that as an employer in business, we want people who can be trained or already know enough to not need much training at all to perform at work. Yet for politicians, we tend to elected "an outsider" so they will not automatically, allegedly, be corrupt. Yet "corrupt" has variable definitions and orientations!
Can't forget "prejudices" in the mix, too!!!
Everybody have a great Holiday Season!
Cdadbr - Great comment.
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