Does history make people racist?

Question

I was raised by my family not to be judging but I find myself become hateful when I read about history. I just hate history and I don't like that way it went down. I don't like reading about how Europeans rape natives, killing them, fractionzing the contient and stuff. I wonder DO JEWS FEEL THE SAME WHEN THEY READ ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST???

Answer 1

I agree, you should see what the foreigners have done to my town.

Answer 2

Matters who is writing the history books... I took an english class the other semester that made all good writers look gay or divorced and miserable by simply leaving out that authors that were married normally were ever married at all. Just be choosy about who's interpretation of history you read. Religious histories do tend to be rather racist. While military histories deal a lot on economics.

Another thing, if you're tending to look at it with liberal mentality, everything will look racist to you except for actions against white Caucasians. That's what the liberals are programming you to believe. (Giving a scholarship to an Indian, a Latino, a Black-American is all just fine but giving a scholarship because a person is white Caucasian is wrong in liberal mentality.) Perhaps you need to reconsider what you actually believe is racism.

Answer 3

Young lady one thing you must understand is that whatever it is that is taught in schools about history, it is only partial. There is more to it than what you see. Take American History for a second, it teaches about Slavery and how Blacks were slaves. It hardly ever mentions how there were White slaves too and how in many states Black slave owners owned the majority of slaves in that state. Obviously what is taught is not the whole truth, one must dig if one wants to know, but if you dig you might not find something that you like.

Answer 4

Remember - history is in the PAST. It does not necessarily tell you what people are like TODAY.

You may like a saying my grandma used a lot - "Hate the sin, not the sinner."

I believe we are all capable of hating other people, whether it's based on race, religion, or just what high school they attended. It's human nature to feel a sense of belonging to a group, and to believe your group is better than other groups. But we also have the intelligence to know that no one group is "better" than any other. That intelligence frees us from our basic instincts.

Answer 5

I was raised by a father who looks, acts and sounds EXACTLY like Archie Bunker.

Ignorance makes people racist.

most people are ignorant and therefore most people are racist without even realizing it. So I wouldn't worry about it if I were you.
If you were raised in a tolerant home, you are just a smaller part of the population. Thats all.

Answer 6

sure
but history is happening now
and how do the jews feel when they bomb
palistine or lebenon
so they obviosly did not learn much
so history is crap
people don't learn from it
they use it as an excuse
to continue killing each other

Answer 7

I can't agree with you more... Remember History is written by the people who actually won... wars, strifes etc...Not necessarily the truth

Answer 8

reading history teaches us the lessons and main goal of not repeating our past actions so we can build a better future.

Answer 9

We read history to understand why to not be racist.

It's now your turn to do it correctly; don't allow yourself to be despised by the children.

Answer 10

we must remember and learn from the past, as to not repeat it again...