Thursday, January 5, 2017

Racisim

Today in class I asked about why and where racisim came from. I didnt get the answer I expected. Before, I thought it was because of a war or maybe a disagreement started people thinking that darker skin needed to be lower, but it turns out that it's probably because people just like to catigorize things. From what I understand, it reminds me of this:
 There were 4 diferent colors of beads. Red, blue, green, and yellow. they were mixed together but then they decided to seperate themselfs into groups. Of course, they started talking and all felt together and similar and decided they didnt want anyone to join their colors. Over time, one group of beads, lets say the red beads, started to put the other colors down and sort of gained power. 
 That is my understanding of what happened but I have no idea if it is true. 

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  2. Evolution, survival of the fittest, has changed us. Thousands of years ago, those who survived must have been "racist". In their case, it wasn't as much of being racist but having a distrust of those outside of their group. There was probably a good reason to have this distrust as perhaps rival clans may have been trying to steal their food or whatnot. Now that other clans or races don't pose the same threat that they did to our ancestors, we will have to wait for humans to evolve away from racist beliefs.

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    1. I like Jamie's point of "survival of the fittest." Naturally, there will be those who are more fit to survive, and there will be those less likely. As humans, we have a natural desire to be in the group most likely to survive. Racism generally gives the racist group a higher chance of survival than the group that is being persecuted.

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