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You forgot American Indians fought alongside Whites, & Blacks during the revolutionary war.
...........and just about all the indian wars that followed not to mention the war between states when most of the indian tribes in oklahoma sided with the south.
LOL at you thinking it will be symetrically equal based on the the number of people
I don't think you know what "symmetrically equal" means. So I can't assuage your laughter, because I don't know what you're really trying to say.
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Your understanding is so bassackwards that I don't even know where to start if I wanted to explain this to you...
If it was really "bassackwards" then you should know exactly where to start. You have after all diagnosed the problem with great specificity.
The point remains that your study does not support the position that racism is hard wired. It is merely a discussion of the general inability of the human brain to account for more than about 150 individuals (of any race) at a time.
It worked in the US in the past because new immigrants had the desire to integrate into society. The majority of immigrants shared common European heritage and were more similar than dissimilar. Even Asian immigrants integrated well since they shared a common work ethic and desire to succeed.
We are now seeing large influxes of immigrants who have no desire to do so, and prefer to remain separate from society. There are major cultural clashes, and I don't see that changing.
This folks is what we call the whitewashing of history.
Asians "integrated well"? Is that what Chinese Exclusion and Japanese Internment were about? The only reason they've "integrated" is because they had to give up their culture and become white. Ironically, most European protestants/puritans/etc. left Europe to avoid this process but perpetrate it on every single group that walks through the American door.
This folks is what we call the whitewashing of history.
Asians "integrated well"? Is that what Chinese Exclusion and Japanese Internment were about? The only reason they've "integrated" is because they had to give up their culture and become white. Ironically, most European protestants/puritans/etc. left Europe to avoid this process but perpetrate it on every single group that walks through the American door.
Dare I add that even when folks "assimilated" it didn't help prevent them being ethnically cleansed from their homes (see Cherokees) or confined to detention camps (see Japanese).
You forgot American Indians fought alongside Whites, & Blacks during the revolutionary war.
The irony here is that American Indians that fought in the American Revolution were never given full rights of citizens and many Black Americans that were slaves that fought in the war were given the promise of freedom that was in some cases later rescinded.
The treatment of non-White people by the Founding Fathers of this country is really nothing to feel proud of unless you are a racist of the highest order.
ugh, really? do I really have to spell it out? I thought it was pretty self-evident.
Racism is just one way the brain attempts to "simplify" an environment which is too diverse for the brain to comprehend fully. Too much diversity, and the brain gets overloaded. So it simplifies things by drawing generalizations. One way the brain generalizes is based on race.
I just if you were a person of limited intelligence that would certainly apply.
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