If the thousands of civilians killed in Iraq were white, would the USA public care more?

Question

Try to reply honestly.

Caucasian is not the same as "white." Caucasians includes South Asians (East Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Mauritians), Arabs (North African and Middle Eastern), Persians, Turks and Caucasians proper (Armenians, Georgians, etc.).

Generally, the tern "white" means European: Mediterranean (Italian, Spaniard, Greek), Slav (Russian, Polish, Slovak, Czech, etc.) and Nordic (German, Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian).

Answer 1

The sad truth is that is probably true.

Even if there was a reason to invade Iraq, if we saw white children and babies dead on tv, the effect would be different.

I think it is a combination of American racism and relating to ppl that look like most of us do.

Answer 2

OF COURSE they would care more. They would care very much more. Didn't you realize they place a low value on every other form of human life if it's not white?

Do you recall the Union Carbide incident in Bhopal, India in 1984? Union Carbide was manufacturing pesticides in an inhabited region. They had substandard safety procedures and engineering which resulted in a gas leak that killed 3,800 and caused tens of thousands of others to be maimed for the remainder of their shortened, painful lives. None of the decision-makers were prosecuted, though the Indian authorities requested extradtion. It never happened... Do you know why? I'll tell you why. It's because to them, if it isn't a white person within the continental United States, then they could really care less whether you live or writhe in pain until you die.

Answer 3

White? Do you mean a caucasian, English-speaking (or European language-speaking) population with whom we have a lot in common? Is there something similar in our cultures? Do we share a common heritage, as the Irish and German and French and English do in our country? Do we have a common bond in religion?

Of course we would.

Does this make us evil racist bigoted hypocrites? Of course not.

In war we objectify our enemies. We dehumanize them in the public eye to remove sympathy and establish an "us" versus a "them". This has been true since we started throwing rocks and pointy sticks at one another.

In the opening days of the Iraq war, there was quite a lot of sympathy for the Iraqi peoples. I remember reading interviews, and seeing documentaries on television about the people and their land, their history and their culture. It was a nice thing. It's quite a change from the hardcore propaganda of a couple of generations ago.

I salute you for looking deeper into the causes of war, but don't go blaming racism for what is a much more complicated situtation. There's plenty of history, money, greed and political wrangling going on without simply blaming racism.

Answer 4

HELL YEAH, Racism is in the core being of every human. No matter how much any1 denies it. The American public considers U.S. Citizens more important and we have to think of the other side. The other nations consider their citizens more important too. The only difference is that they aren't super powers and don't have the resources like the U.S. to do anything about it like un here.

Answer 5

Hell yes! And don't you think that if the Katrina in "Nawlins was instead an earthquake in Greenwich, wouldn't Bush have responded sooner. The truth is, we live in a racist world, we'll never have true equality (someone will always be prosecuted), and Kanye was right.

Answer 6

Don't tell me you have not heard the term " sand*****r" Of course race plays a very major role. I can promise you, if there were a bunch of blue eyed blond babies involved someone would have come up with a bunch of ways to impeach " The new Satan". Have to thank Hugo Chavez for that one.

Answer 7

Maybe. Most of the public at one time knew what he was up to because they remember the first war with him but the children on this site do not know about it and are just jumping on the anti Bush bandwagon because it is popular not realizing that Saddam has committed MANY war crimes that are terrible to even write about. He needed to go but you won't convince anybody on this site to care because it isn't the trend..

Answer 8

Yes, but I will state that history shows recent presidents would do the same thing, not just bush, for example, Haiti and other African countries in conflicts. Bottom line, no other countries' lives matter if it supports our interest only, and that's terrible...

Answer 9

No. This is not a war about color! It's about what the President wants. To much to write about............ Bush SUCKS!!!!!! This war is out of control. Too many people are blind about what the facts are. Or like myself ~~~~~ I don't see me making a difference~~~ if I could figure out a way I would try~~~~ seriously I WOULD!!

Answer 10

Absolutely. But it also depends on what kind of white people they are. If they are French or Spanish then the US would take action a lot sooner than if they were Russian or Lithuanian.