Even if less than before they are still a good number of people who believe that the human race theory is nothing and human beings are more different than similar. My human rights teacher says that this is one of the things that show that it is not easy to unlearn hate that is planted in societies. If you believe that the human race is similar how do you react to people with who think that the way around and if you don't why don't you ?! I hope you tell me what you think peace out
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I'm not quite sure what you mean by "human race theory", but I will assume by context you mean that we are all the same species, which is all the term "human race" is really meant to communicate. If there is anyone who doubts we are all the same species, it is most likely not because of a lack of proper education or information, but pure blind prejudice and purposeful ignorance. That being said, this kind of prejudice and denial is usually due to some form of trauma or indoctrination. If it is the product of indoctrination, either by family or community, the only real way to deal with that is exposure. The more of the "other" they know, the harder it will be to keep their misconceptions and denying practical reality. If it is due to extreme trauma, however, there may be no recovery from their irrational fear and anger, so there isn't always a good way to deal with it.
If I knew of any magic bullet that could instantaneously end tribalism and discrimination, believe me that I would have used it by now, and my own country wouldn't still have so much of a problem with it to this day.
Yeah i find your point to be true because recently me and a group of volunteers who were willing to coach immigrant children in america from different parts in one club. We found out that most of kids hated each due to racial reasons at the beginning but by the end of our first year they was a strong love that was built up by this kids who are in the ages 7-13 so i wonder when we learn the hate and love sos and so roles.
Sounds like a wonderful program, thank you for being a part of it. As to the age range you are speaking of specifically(7-13) their opinions and conceptions of other groups(racial, religious, cultural) are mainly shaped by the attitudes of their parents. Children are CONSTANTLY watching their parents, in public and private, and are very capable of noticing when their parents are particularly defensive or uncomfortable. If I, for instance, was very defensive and impolite with someone from a specific group my son would pick up on that. In his mind, at this age in which children generally hold much faith in their parents, it would have to be for a good reason. He would learn to distrust and be reserved with that group, simply because of the way I behaved and acted.
Something so simple, at such a young age, can be the basis for a lifelong prejudice.
Yeah it was kind of weird because some of the children were from the middle eastern kids , Asia and different parts of Africa. This kids came from societies that fight each other and thus hated each other but the soccer (football) program made most of these kids that were not having any level of tolerance at the beginning learn to love and work together.
Sounds wonderful, I am willing to bet that such programs will do far more to help discrimination and prejudice than an infinite number of windbag politicians whining about it. Exposure makes it impossible for us to simply dehumanize the "other", once that happens we lose much of the irrational basis such hatred is built upon. Once you recognize them as being as human as you are, empathy and the natural ability to relate does much to destroy such misconceptions.
Yeah but the problem is that these programs require money and they aren't that much many organizations that provide aid for this accept for rights to play and a few other organizations. Ours was done by volunteers and some aid from the city but we still worked like an organization that is rich because we had the motivation and spirit.
Why human race is nothing? Does it means that we are not more than those animals. we are animals but we have to be proud that we as the highest form have intellect above other animals.
It means that we are different specie rather than one specie and that one is better than the other. The term race was used to mean species for a long time and that why we say that we the human race. But people who believe in eugenics get offended by humans being defined as one.
The "race" theory you speak of is in relation to a single point of human origin, an evolution from that single origin by way of migrations to the various regions of the world and biological adaptions to those regions. Fair enough. We are all of the same blood.
That knowledge serves us in no practical manner. The isolation of those regions ultimately lead to varying degrees of evolution, progressively speaking, leaving certain tribes much more advanced than others, if we allow that all isolated groups can be categorized as tribes for the purpose of this discussion.
It becomes apparent to the more advanced tribes that they can easily dominate the lesser advanced tribes. This is historically correct. Well trained and equipped armies have been conquering their weaker neighbors in an almost expected and traditional form of human conduct. No big news there. What changes would have occurred had all warring factions throughout history been cognizant of their single origin? What do you think would have happened? I contend that nothing would have happened.
So, why is that?
The various tribes, which we will now discuss as "races", settled themselves throughout history into various levels of (isolated) evolution. Some still rely on slash and burn agriculture, some are still roving nomadic hunter-gatherer people following their food supply, some have managed to grow crops and domesticate animals for performing work or as food, etc. Then there are races that have evolved to become industrialized.
All of them still war and kill each other for whatever conveniences they deem important enough to kill. The only differences are at the organizational and weapons levels.
The notion of a single origin is of no practical use in wiping out centuries of evolutions in isolation and the conflicts borne of it.
Now, if you want to destroy the hate, you must destroy the people filled with hate who pass it from generation to generation. Those would be the grandparents, or more specifically, the grandmothers. They are the greatest influences of hate on young impressionable children. They nurture and help raise them while their parents are off at work. That is when the stories of racial hate are told and that is the time in a child's life when they store away such things that will fester over time.
Imagine a child raised without religion or a notion of a god imbued in him by his family. Imagine that same child raised without the home-born hate influence placed into his mind by that same family. Hate lives in the homes of all these children. Kill it there and watch crimes of racial hatred diminish.
I agree with religion being a big chunk but we have other issues like having less funding to programs that encourage diversity in a given community. We need to spend our time trying to get our target group (the young) and make them exposed to diversity.We should take steps to take this to an end because as human beings we are supposed to understand that acknowledging that a problem exists is one thing while working to fix it is another.
"Now, if you want to destroy the hate, you must destroy the people filled with hate who pass it from generation to generation. Those would be the grandparents, or more specifically, the grandmothers. They are the greatest influences of hate on young impressionable children. They nurture and help raise them while their parents are off at work. That is when the stories of racial hate are told and that is the time in a child's life when they store away such things that will fester over time."
Oh my. That, pitar, is one of the silliest things I've read in the AR forums in a while.
Well at this point of time we have to options one cry about what is not done and the other is do what we can to stop it and implant unity instead