What is the deal with racism?

Question

I've been looking on the q&a for about 30 minutes now and have seen at least 70 racial questions. There is something wrong with every race. It was made like that for a reason. So heres a few questions for the world in general.

1. What is wrong with caucasian people?
2. What is wrong with black people?
3. what is wrong with asian people?
4. Why do these races differ from each other?
5. Why do the people in each of these races feel that they are so different.
6. Why did we even start thinking we are different?
7. If we are so different why is our anatomy the same?
8. Why is a difference in race so important among our communities.


Please answer with your own views instead of the views of the people aruond you. Be yourself.

We are all earthlings any way

Answer 1

Lol, I don't feel like giving a total answer, that would take forever, so I'll give a generalized one. Race exists because we look different, it's the first thing you notice about a person. Studies have shown that the first and last thing we remember about a person is their percieved race (black, white, etc.) We look different, arguably, due to evolutionary adaptions to whatever climates our ancestors lived in. Ideally there is nothing "wrong" with any particular people, due to their "race." Race, however, does exist as a social construct, largely due to European colonialism and early pseudoscience. It's important to note that many non-European peoples were still living largely tribal, pagan lifestyles, and were seen as savages to the advanced, Christian Europeans. Race is still important to day because of historical grievances, stereotypes, and of course culture. Culture is probably the most persistent reason, because there is a strong correlation between culture and race especially in minorities, hence you get the phenomenon that most "black" people act "black," which of course is noticably different from acting "white." Ironically one could ask the same question using countries or religions.

Answer 2

1. Our ancestors gained a foothold on technology and conquered the world. While we still hold benefits from their conquest, we also insolate ourselves from facing that injustice honestly.
2. After 400 years of oppression, a couple of decades of effort to even the scales has not addressed the cultural scars of that oppression. Also, efforts to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps have been sabotaged and undermined by the powers that be from the 1880s to the 1970s, andto a lesser extent beyond. The cultural memory of those repeated underminings have left portions of the black community jaded about the viability of advancement today.
3. I'm not aware of any singlr, predominant issue per se.
4. Because they are historically perceived differences. With genetic blending the abrasiveness of these differences will hopefully erode.
5. Learned behavior from their communities.
6. Before the cross-Atlantic slave trade, these differences were far less important. (Black) Moors were sometimes monarchs in Europe. Indians welcomed black and white recruits into their nations. Slavery and its defense mechanisms entrenched perceived differences based on skin color.
7. Because we're all human.
8. Because it has traditionally been an issue, and an issue of power.

Answer 3

1. it's because we have that stupid name, i'm telling ya it sounds like a chain of islands just call me white i'm happier that way
2. no idea i'm not black
3. no idea i'm not asian but if i had a hazard a guess i'd say it's because asian girls don't stick to asian guy or at least that's what i see the most complains about
4. skin, eyes and noses, i think that about covers it
5. folks for the most part don't care for things different then them or the way they think things should be skin is just the catalyst for what some folks have in them already
6. well.... some of us my be nuts but we're not blind but without difference we would never change and as i said some folks don't really care for that
7. yes everything is there and it's not that the difference is that big a deal but like so many of the worlds problems it's all in our heads, nothing's a big deal unless you make it one
8. a lot of folks take pride in where they come from and so they should but they should also learn to draw the line between pride in who you are and the fanaticism that comes with thinking your race is the only one

Answer 4

good point!