Posted by:
Dr. No
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Date: January 16, 2021 03:35PM
anybody Wrote:
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> Racism is not natural.
> Parents have to teach it to their children.
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What if tribalism is biological -- and this proclivity must be taught out of us by wise parents?
Humans are tribal animals.
We're wired to follow a leader and work in groups roughly the size of a spots team. And then cheer on "our" sports team.
Just evolutionary biology -- working cooperatively in groups enhanced survival through aeons.
With limited resources and competing tribes, identifying and rejecting "out-tribe" became a part of the wiring.
We see it today in rival teams -- respective fans must be separated.
One introspection:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285234086_The_Neurology_of_Tribalism_A_Conceptual_AnalysisBut we cannot begin to teach it out of ourselves if we do not even see that it's already in the equipment.
Cannot supersede or fix what we don't even see.
Consider the social cross-section:
which segment appears the most racist? Which the less so?
Does this tendency correlate with anything in particular?
A working definition of humanity is being able, at long last, to see the "self" in the "other." Eventually this extends to all forms of life