11-03-2017, 08:32 AM
Seems that all this is a pretty common sociological discussion. It is not that any group necessarily thinks that their race or culture is better, it is that people in these groups have a shared history that is very different from the history of other groups (and also different from the increasing number of individuals who do not identify with any group). And groups have a history of competing.
Such as the white group or the European group or however you want to define them migrating and moving all over the world (from about 1600 on) to places where native cultures lived for many centuries without new groups. And the incoming group, by dint of better technology or more aggressive behavior, dominates the resources of the new place and forcibly puts the original inhabitants to work.
Our more commonly--and as was the case in Hawaii--simply commandeers the majority of the land, putting the indigenous in the position of either working on the plantations (or some similar site) or going hungry. A pretty effective modus operandi--far more intelligent than outright slavery.
Of course, now in the 21st century, the argument is that everyone must come together and say Let's let bygones be bygones. We are all the same. I suppose this is pretty compelling. But probably easier to accept by the groups with the most money and power than the ones with less, and who have always had much less (comparatively) since strange boats came to their shorelines....
Such as the white group or the European group or however you want to define them migrating and moving all over the world (from about 1600 on) to places where native cultures lived for many centuries without new groups. And the incoming group, by dint of better technology or more aggressive behavior, dominates the resources of the new place and forcibly puts the original inhabitants to work.
Our more commonly--and as was the case in Hawaii--simply commandeers the majority of the land, putting the indigenous in the position of either working on the plantations (or some similar site) or going hungry. A pretty effective modus operandi--far more intelligent than outright slavery.
Of course, now in the 21st century, the argument is that everyone must come together and say Let's let bygones be bygones. We are all the same. I suppose this is pretty compelling. But probably easier to accept by the groups with the most money and power than the ones with less, and who have always had much less (comparatively) since strange boats came to their shorelines....