can racism be avoided in school?

Question

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Answer 1

Evolutionary racism

by Carl Wieland

The sinful desire to dominate, reject, ignore or mistreat others for one’s own particular motives has never required much excuse. However, Darwin gave it a tremendous impetus, as has been shown before by both evolutionist and creationist writers. An unusual book helps document the links between evolutionary thinking and an upsurge in racism in Australian colonial history.

The book is called Aborigines in White Australia: A Documentary History of the Attitudes Affecting Official Policy and the Australian Aborigine 1697–1973.1 Apart from a few introductory/editorial comments, it consists largely of substantial excerpts from documents as varied as parliamentary transcripts, court records, letters to editors, anthropological reports, and so forth.
Increase in brutality

Far from showing a progressive enlightenment as time goes on, one can see a distinct change for the worse after 1859, with a marked increase in callousness, ill-treatment and brutality towards Aborigines being evident in official attitudes. As the book’s editor writes:

‘In 1859 Charles Darwin’s book On the Origin of Species popularized the notion of biological (and therefore social) evolution. Scholars began to discuss civilization as a unilinear process with races able to ascend or descend a graduated scale. The European was … the “fittest to survive” … [The Aboriginal] was doomed to die out according to a “natural law”, like the dodo and the dinosaur. This theory, supported by the facts at hand [i.e. that Aborigines were dying out, which was due to ill-treatment and disease — C.W.] continued to be quoted until well into the twentieth century when it was noticed that the dark-skinned race was multiplying. Until that time it could be used to justify neglect and murder.’

In the transcript of an interrogation of a policeman during a Royal Commission of inquiry in 1861 (p. 83), we read concerning the use of force against tribal Aborigines:

‘And if we did not punish the blacks they would look upon it as a confession of weakness?’

‘Yes, that is exactly my opinion.’

‘It is a question as to which is the strongest race — if we submit to them they would despise us for it?’

‘Yes …’

The influence of evolutionary thinking can also be seen in a transcript on page 100. The writer, also author of an 1888 book, is justifying the killing of Aborigines in the State of Victoria. He writes:

‘As to the ethics of the question, there can be drawn no final conclusion.’

He says that this is because it is

‘a question of temperament; to the sentimental it is undoubtedly an iniquity; to the practical it represents a distinct step in human progress, involving the sacrifice of a few thousands of an inferior race. … But the fact is that mankind, as a race, cannot choose to act solely as moral beings. They are governed by animal laws which urge them blindly forward upon tracks they scarce can choose for themselves.’

In other words, he is justifying ‘iniquity’ (another word for sin) by appealing to the ‘animal laws’ of the evolutionary struggle for survival. Opposition can be dismissed as ‘sentimental’ — lacking understanding of such ‘natural laws’.

On page 96, someone also writing in an 1880 newspaper said:

‘Nothing that we can do will alter the inscrutable and withal immutable laws which direct our progress on this globe. By these laws the native races of Australia were doomed on the advent of the white man, and the only thing left for us to do is to assist in carrying them out [i.e. helping the “laws” of evolution by hastening the Aborigines’ doom — C.W.] with as little cruelty as possible … We must rule the blacks by fear … ’.

These immutable ‘laws of evolution’ have, of course, always been a complete fiction. The continuing social tension surrounding Aboriginal issues is, in large part, a legacy of these past evils.
Church backdown on creation

Many genuine Australian Christians and church institutions, though occasionally somewhat patronizing, seem to have tried to protect Aborigines from the full brunt of the many inhumanities sanctioned by evolutionary thinking. However, like today, most church leaders and institutions compromised in some form or another with this new Darwinian ‘science’.

Virtually no Christian voice did what was required — to affirm boldly the real history of man as given in the Bible. To stress that we all go back only a few thousand years, to Noah’s family, would have refuted Darwinian racism. It would have anticipated the findings of modern genetics, that we are all biologically extremely close. It would also have given a completely different perspective on Aboriginal status and culture — for example, it would have been seen as no surprise that they already had many stories of their own about the Flood, and some about Babel. What a dramatically different starting point for missionary outreach — reaching your relatives, not inferior ‘savages’!

The false belief system of evolution has been used since its inception to dull people to the moral absolutes of Scripture, whether justifying Nazism, Stalinism, the abortion holocaust, indifference to starvation in Africa, or the maltreatment of indigenous people.

God’s Word has always stated that He has ‘made of one blood [i.e. from one man, Adam] all nations of men’ (Acts 17:26, cf. 1 Cor. 15:45). The answer to racism is in Genesis, which tells us that all people are closely related.
Official Crimes

We have already documented1 the murderous trade in body parts to northern hemisphere museums, based on Darwin’s teaching that indigenous Australians were living ‘missing links’. Early atrocities against Aborigines (which were also often ‘justified’ by pre-Darwinian evolutionary ideas) frequently brought swift retribution from the authorities. But after Darwin’s work appeared, such horrors, of all types, were much more often officially sanctioned.

A letter-writer to a newspaper in 1880, incensed by the treatment of his fellow man, stated:

‘This, in plain language, is how we deal with the aborigines: On occupying new territory the aboriginal inhabitants are treated exactly in the same way as the wild beasts or birds the settlers may find there. Their lives and their property, the nets, canoes, and weapons which represent as much labor to them as the stock and buildings of the white settler, are held by the Europeans as being at their absolute disposal. Their goods are taken, their children forcibly stolen, their women carried away, entirely at the caprice of white men. The least show of resistance is answered by a rifle bullet … [those] who fancied the amusement have murdered, ravished, and robbed the blacks without let or hindrance. Not only have they been unchecked, but the Government of the colony has been always at hand to save them from the consequences of their crime.’2

Answer 2

Stereotypes tend to be based in truth. Your experience has been super bad, but try to remember that the Chinese people who live in your area don't and can't possibly represent every single Chinese person in the world. It's easy for someone else to say but the fact that you're asking this question says that you're making some sort of an effort to remain open and not jumping onto the bandwagon of hating people for reasons that no one can really help. If you live in a primarily Chinese neighborhood and can't move away there isn't very much you can do, but anything you can do to avoid them without being racist is all you can do at this point. This is a hard question to answer, but it's impressive to me that you seem to be trying to remain civil despite your frustration and confusion.

Answer 3

no, racism can never be avoided bcuz nobody has control over others opinions. Im sorry but its true...u cant change the way sum1 feels about sumthing just bcuz u dont agree with it or anything....racism happens everywhere.....recently we found out that even in church it happens....so basically racism can not be avoided in school or anywhere else

Answer 4

i believe it can if only teacher are very thorough with their teaching of why we mustn't be racist at all. I wouldn't count on racism being successfully avoided at some times. only, if people stand strong for what we know and accept people. There is a high chance of good avoidance of racism.

Answer 5

I agree somewhat with the first answer . . it can't be avoided until people change the way they think about things . . . although you may be the type of person who likes everybody and gets along with everybody . . you can't do anything to change the mind of someone who was taught to hate another race since they were born . . . in my opinion, racism will always exist in one way or another . . .

Answer 6

not at this momment in our evolutionary process. kids become what they are tought at home. there are some racist that are on the down low, but they do talk around there children. maybe someday. just be strong and realize that the racist is a sick person that may need meds or there understanding of others are screwed up............................kev

Answer 7

in my school, anybody who offends anybody by race or religion is suspended or even expelled depending on the insult. the principal should make serious consquenses and have it go under their name in permanent record that they were being racist in our school. my school, is those kind of same race, basically same religion. MAjorities are Middle_easterns, Indians, Koreans, Italians, or Irish. Religions are either cath, chris, jew, or mus. its all white kinda though (but we still have some blacks), so its better to ask someone who goes to a school with MANY DIFFERENT races.

Answer 8

i dont think racism can be avoided in school or anywhere else. you cant change the way you feel about somebody. you can lie and say you're not racist, but i think we are all picky in some way.

Answer 9

as long as ppl classify them as a sub race i dont think so.. like i am black, latino, american indian, texan etc etc basically they r all the same till that boundry is overcome i dont think so

Answer 10

No.

Just in the real world, it will always exist.