Friday, July 24, 2009

generalization

People find all sorts of ways to discriminate against each other and skin colour or race is only one of them. There is also gender, socio-economic status, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, place of birth and political alignment. The Nazis hated the Jews, the rich are contempuous of the poor, the dock workers dislike the professors, the BJP loathe the Mohammedans, the West Side don't like the East Side and the Sunni na like the Shiites. The White Russians attacked the Red Russians, the Cubans are vaguely hostile towards Colombians and Melburnians are indifferent to Sydneyians.

Every race of people contains good, decent persons and every race of people contains assholes. Much of any race is in fact a mixture of the two with outliers on each side.

The white race is like any race in this and there is no question that in the past, as now, we have our share of assholes. But I think it is a false generalization to say that 'all Caucasians secretly or subconsciously believe that we are a superior race'. No, not all: some. To say 'all' is to make a racist statement.




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