CLASSISM we know lends itself to RACISM, So, do you find it odd that the majority of the worlds.....?

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population that live by this belief have never studied or are considered to be the scholars of life?

Thank you for your answers.

I will be posting an update at a later time in regards to this question.

I have more that I would like to add and mention that I do not think was thought about here.

I will chose best answer.

Special Thanks to susyQ and Doc Watson for their well thought imput.

Answer 1

Classism is inevitable in any society be it religious, political, economic or even scolarly. Everyone wants to be part of a group and only the lawful or politically correct groups get to be recognized and popular. Those who studied these groups are a class of there own and scholarly classes exist such as Ivy league.

Answer 2

I may be wrong but I don't think that someone asking a question is necessarily being judgemental. It's a lot to think about, but I don't think that some of the most racist countries in the world are necessarily unschooled. I'm not sure that I don't think religious beliefs may have more to do with the demonstrations of racism that we seem to be experiencing now. The strongest systems of classism were practised in some countries with the highest rates of literacy in the world! (England, China, India etc.) Some of the greatest scholars are now in what were considered to be backward nations not too long ago. Very good question to ponder indeed!

Answer 3

Hello:

Well I would first like you to please excuse my criticism of your question, however:

To begin with you could say that the majority of the worlds population exists in 2 or at most 3 nations on planet earth and seeing as how these nations would not be called western or first world (at best they are in transition from 3rd world...again by our definitions of them). I think that this reason alone contributes to their lack of scholarship of life by our standards. However the two countries I speak of would be China and India who pretty much invented philosophy on life several thousand years ago...I cannot say that because they do not life up to our standards that they do not have something just as meaningful.

As for class ism leading to racism...I think this might be heightened in the United States if for no other reason that there have been so many influxes of different peoples throughout out history...More importantly I would say that Racism leads to class ism more than the other way around. Class is easy to hide in the short term...a nicer set of clothes, save up for the nicer car and so on...you cannot tell the difference, however if you have white skin in a darker skinned country...you are going to stand out regardless of what you are wearing. Traditionally it has had to have been people within ones own race or religion that would assist you in tough times rather than any outsider (see the Jewish people since the dawn of time) which will of course only breed more mistrust of said people.

So pretty much I did not answer your question except by saying that they do in their own way and maybe you shouldn't be so judgmental until you try to understand someone.

I hope this helps.

Rev Phil

Answer 4

Many thousands of years ago the leaders and/or rulers of different countries learned several important lessons about controlling and maintaining their control over the masses within their respective countries.

One of the primary lessons they learned and maintain to this day is to keep the masses as ignorant and as uneducated as possible. For obvious reasons a certain percentage of the population had to be educated in order for there to be doctors, businessmen, lawmakers, military leaders, etc. but those selected to follow into the upper echelon of the social scale were hand-selected because they displayed and accepted a like-minded mind set to become part of and staunchly maintain that country's status quo. Everyone not selected into this upper chaste were subsequently keep down by lack of education, lack of opportunity, by laws favoring the upper chaste and / or by pure fear and force.

What happens when you have a larger section of the general population being educated freely is that this tends to develop idealism and wide-spread idealism tends to want to overthrown the existing ruling parties. So the rulers learned to keep the masses as ignorant as possible.

And several of the primary tools learned through the years to control and keep a large group of people under your thumb are actually pretty basic:

Control them through a religious belief system that expects them to be humble servants to whomever is in charge and blindly accept the actions of those in charge.

Give the masses collective enemies to focus their anger and hatred towards. By encouraging and inflaming this anger towards others, be they other races or religions or countries, the general population is less like to blame their own leaders for their own lack of food, housing and income and less likely to rise up against and overthrow their own leaders.

Classism in itself does not lead to racism. Lack of education enduced by a specific country and it's leaders, outward anger inflamed by national or religious leaders towards selected 'scapegoats', fueled by the ignorance of the uneducated, is what leads to racism. Widespread racism is actually a political tool thinly disguised as a social shortcoming.

Answer 5

i see where you are coming from that is definitly something to think about