The Fight for Human Race / Race - The Fight for Human (Part IV)
The Longman dictionary describes race as:
1) any of the main groups into which human beings can be divided according to their physical type i.e. black/white/brown races.
2) a group of people with the same history, language, customs, etc
I wouldn't wanna go into any sorta religious or scientific debate but someone did make us the way we are, what we are. It is easy for us to see what's so different between a person who's dark colored and a person who's white, or the funny yellow guy next door, or the brown guy who smells of curry, or what other color have i missed? It is easy for us to identify ourselves with people who are like us, more so especially when they look like us...in the same color. It is extremely easy for us to fall in love with a white guy on screen than the yellow guy sidekick.
But what people don't realise through this shallow fallacy is that deep down, we are really the same. Cut me and i bleed the same blood as you, red. Just coz i have a different colored hair doesn't mean we have a different colored brain tissue, grey. Visit a dentist and i have the same colored teeth as you, white... erm with the exception of the British, but you get my point.
I think most people can't live in harmony with the people of another race simply because they don't understand each other well enough. When cultures clash, one can expect mayhem, difficulty in reasoning, and unfamiliarity. As many people may already have experienced it: We fear, what we do not understand. With that, racism may be sparked off because we dislike a person's social behaviour, habit, opinion, smell even.
Skin color should never be used as an excuse to breed contempt. We are all made the same, eyes, ears, nose, hands and feet, but it is easy to see, how color alone can breed so much prejudice in people, simply because its the only difference anybody can spot and be used as an excuse.
1) any of the main groups into which human beings can be divided according to their physical type i.e. black/white/brown races.
2) a group of people with the same history, language, customs, etc
I wouldn't wanna go into any sorta religious or scientific debate but someone did make us the way we are, what we are. It is easy for us to see what's so different between a person who's dark colored and a person who's white, or the funny yellow guy next door, or the brown guy who smells of curry, or what other color have i missed? It is easy for us to identify ourselves with people who are like us, more so especially when they look like us...in the same color. It is extremely easy for us to fall in love with a white guy on screen than the yellow guy sidekick.
But what people don't realise through this shallow fallacy is that deep down, we are really the same. Cut me and i bleed the same blood as you, red. Just coz i have a different colored hair doesn't mean we have a different colored brain tissue, grey. Visit a dentist and i have the same colored teeth as you, white... erm with the exception of the British, but you get my point.
I think most people can't live in harmony with the people of another race simply because they don't understand each other well enough. When cultures clash, one can expect mayhem, difficulty in reasoning, and unfamiliarity. As many people may already have experienced it: We fear, what we do not understand. With that, racism may be sparked off because we dislike a person's social behaviour, habit, opinion, smell even.
Skin color should never be used as an excuse to breed contempt. We are all made the same, eyes, ears, nose, hands and feet, but it is easy to see, how color alone can breed so much prejudice in people, simply because its the only difference anybody can spot and be used as an excuse.
posted by Mereel at
2:28 PM
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