Why are so many people delving into this ideology of European racesupremacy and advancement . This is is an obvious Eurocentric view, as it fails to account for the advancements of other societies in many academic and societal fields.. A simple example is how the Europeans lacked sanitation in early centuries, whereas the Indus Valley Civilization was "ahead of its time" with advanced sewer systems and aquifer networking (a pattern that continued into many parts of India). In addition, many early medical and mathematical advancements originated in non-European locations, such as India and concepts such as the number 0 were conceptualized and applied in reasonable context in Indian and Mayan civilizations. These are a few of many exmaples in other cultures and races. It seems to me the Europeans are not the most advanced race, but the most advanced at borrowing advancements form other cultures and assimilating them into their own (see "Arabic" numbers, gunpowder). All races equal.
2006-12-30
03:07:26
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