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Start with the conquistadors, and work forward.

2006-11-24 11:06:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Start with this:
..."Race mixing (multiracialism) has been almost total in Hispanic countries for many years, yet they still practice mejorando la raza (improvement of the race by whitening), and they discriminate by color rather than race. I believe this was what you had in mind, writing: "...when we look at other societies that have many more classifications, you don't find less racism or problems but more stratification with those having the most black features on the bottom." I fervently hope it will not happen that way in the U.S.A. I believe our nation's quest after the chalice of equality will see our success where other societies have failed. I believe we can do it. I suggest speed though.

All the multiracial (e.g., Hispanic) societies are very old, very traditional. They mixed slowly for hundreds of years. I learn they are steeped in Old World class consciousness and engrained prejudices. By contrast, classism is not entrenched here. In its place we have racism. But because our U.S. racism is situational -- it arose from White greed -- founded on silly pseudo-scientific and religious excuses formulated to justify the unconscionable exploitations of slavery, I think the roots of racism in the U.S.A. are weak, severable. .."

http://www.multiracial.com/readers/winkeldebate.html

2006-11-24 19:24:19 · answer #2 · answered by Rockies VM 6 · 0 0

if you look at the colonies that Spain had versus the colonies that we or England had that you give you a good start then look at what each country extracted from each of their colonies and at what price in terms of price paid, deaths etc and that will give you a "greed factor"

2006-11-24 19:08:10 · answer #3 · answered by doc 4 · 0 0

Greed has a color?

2006-11-24 19:07:08 · answer #4 · answered by Sunny2006 3 · 1 0

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