Do you think race superiority still exists?

Answer 1

Sure it does. Take a middle class white man and send him on an errand to an area dominated by minorities. When they walk by a minority, watch their reaction. They turn away, hold their breath, or even cross the street to avoid even the possibility of eye contact. I know this because I have friends AND family that are both guilty of this. It is sad, but let us not forget the friction between races in America not 40 years ago. I think we've come a long way, and tolerance is increasing with each passing day.

Answer 2

What do you mean by superiority? That's a different concept than racial intolerance or discrimination.

The NBA is certainly much less racially diverse than it was 30 years ago. Is this due to the "superiority" of black athletes? Or have the world-class white athletes simply gone into other sports, like hockey and football?

Never mind the fact that from a scientific standpoint, race doesn't even really exist.

Answer 3

I don't think that any "race" is superior to any other. However, discrimiation, stereotyping, and feelings of superiority still exist.

My husband is from Africa.

If we go to Wal-Mart together, he usually pushes the cart while I carry the baby. About 75% of the time, the door greeter will ask him for his receipt, even though we usually only have groceries.

When I'm by myself, I'm almost never asked to show a receipt. I walked out the door once with a $200 printer sitting in the cart, and no one said a word.

He also gets pulled over more by the police, even though I drive faster.

Answer 4

Annie is right to ask about real or perceived. The framing of this question is a bit troubling. Do you consider guilt primarily a feeling, or do you recognize that the feeling depends on the factual state of having done something wrong to give it shape, even when the feeling is there but the fact of guilt is missing? Do you think "truth" is primarily a feeling of sincerity, or do you recognize that the fidelity between feeling and expression depends on the correspondence of statements to real states of affairs to exemplify what truth is?
___The former notions go along with a belief that all truth and reality is subjective; if you believe this, then you shouldn't complain if somebody commiits violence on you, because the violence is just a subjective feeling.
___There seems to be some racism going on here. And the notion that race doesn't exist does nothing to help it. Of course race exists. People from different geographical areas have different features of skin- and hair- color, bodily form, and facial features. There may be a time when intermarriage eliminates all of the correlations between ethnic and geographical heritage and individual differences, but that is not the case now. Apparently, someone's been listening to some postmodernist doctrine. Get a clue. Postmodernism is pretty much dead. It turns out to be the traditional skepticism that goes back at least to Hume in 1740, in new packaging. But for a postmodernist, new packaging is the closest thing to substance there is.
___The question of race isn't whether it exists, but whether it distinguishes anything important. It doesn't. Even if one notices that most of the people of X race really do act in some offensive way, its' more likely a cultural difference than a racial one. Just look at the older history of more localized culture-clashes in Europe, where the racial differences between, say, the French and the English, and the Germans, and the Irish are miniscule, but plenty of friction has been treated as a racial thing.
___OK, so Kenyans keep winning marathons, but that doesn't have any meaning as to whether this group or that racial group is more or less trustworthy or moral. the differences are trivial.
___Every race has its geniuses and its mentally-retarded individuals. And every race has mental illness. And even these differences of mental capability have no effect on criminality. What's important in human affairs is the value of human beings, and neither race nor intelligence has anything to do with intrinsic human worth.
___Cultural differences are another thing. Customs of human sacrifice in volcanos or on stone altars are pretty repugnant to civilized people. The finer points are more controversial, and what is to be tolerated and what isn't of other cultures is an issue with a long history. And multiculturalist fundamentalism is a blockheaded oversimplification as much as any other fundamentalism, a lazy person's way of avoiding the heavy lifting of true toleration, which is essentially a withholding of interference with something that is repugnant. Without the repugnance, it's not toleration, and without the reugnance, it's no big deal. the miracle lies in doing the counterintuituve thing in the face of repugnance, when there are more important things to worry about than someone else's dietary laws, for the sake of some measure of human harmony.
___Postmodernism is ill preparation for the anxieties of real life. Just dismissing distinctions doesn't make them go away. For those of you just out of school, remember that public school teachers have the lowest GRE scores of any occupational group that goes to grad school, and that most of the philosophical stuff is over their heads. Such a group is very prone to peer-pressure and intellectual faddism, and, predictably, as an occupational group, they display a remarkable degree of political homogeneity.
___The "race doesn't exist" stance is silly, and won't help anyone really deal with the difficulties of dealing with people who are different. What is does accomplish is to convince more practical-minded people, and those on the right, that the far left is just not worth listening to, and to impair the process of public discourse. Most people haven't been indoctrinated to respond to the "gee-whiz" skepticism of postmodernism as if it's some sort of badge of intellectual hipness.

Answer 5

NO. Everyone has equal rights in this country. It may seem that whites are the superior race, but I think it's just because there is more than twice as many whites as there are blacks in this country.

Answer 6

There is still a sizable economic disparity between minorities and non-minorities, and there will always be your white-supremacist, pro-KKK hickoid types with nothing better to whine about. But compared to forty years ago, it's not that bad at all.

Answer 7

Actual or perceived?

I don't believe that there is a genetically superior group of humans.... But I know there are those who do.

Answer 8

Of course Not Prashant! Women R Superior ! I know that U know that.

Answer 9

Yes. See the white KKK and the white Skinheads try to kill all the Blacks and Jews.

Answer 10

only in America no where else