Nom de Plume wrote on Sep 3^rd, 2020 at 4:42pm:


Your question is too vague to give a meaningful answer to
One culture usurping another. Is that:

- ISIS killing and destroying anything contradicting it's culture?
- European colonialists converting and conquering the new world?
- Far right populists insisting on assimilation?
- The USA through popular culture gradually changing the world to a homogeneous Hollywood culture?

Great topic, and a taboo one that is not discussed enough.

As I travel the world, i have often wondered abut race and our behaviour to differences.

i feel that while scientifically we are all one race, that is we are one species. Evolution due to isolation has formed variations in our appearances, beliefs and culture overtime. Some are due to a small initial population that moved to an area without genetic introductions from outside.

I believe that race and the discriminations of a person based on race is racism. We have evolved to fear people who are different. Remember when we were kids, the kid that looked or acted different to everyone else, didn't fit the mold of your peer group got a hard time. We fear difference and we use difference politically to define a threat. It allows us to identify which pack we belong to and those that are different are not in our pack or tribe.

I have talked to white supremists and at the heart of the hatred is the fear around things like:
- They are taking our jobs
- They cannot speak our language (fear because we don't know what they are saying)
- They don't because one of us (stay in their own culture)
- They are  spreading their religion
- They are taking over
- I dont want my daughter to marry one

I live in the ME were racism is a way of life. They use it here like an underground Caste system.

So they use it to categized people and what work they will do and their place in society.

I think racism is born in fear, is communicated and passed down intergenerationally so the kids will (some will) adopt the attitudes of their parents or peer group is the real root cause of racism. The fear of difference is built into us. It is a survival skill from the past. It will linger on I am afraid.

Intellectually I can rise above it. (Most times) However my instincts always go to alarm when i encounter difference. Particularly a difference that I do not understand or that threatens my status quo in live. I try not to act out on this instinctive reaction, but it is there. The trict is to be self aware.

Super Nova wrote on Sep 5^th, 2020 at 11:48pm:


I tried the "unknown" and it didn't suit me, I didn't fear it. I lived in the western suburbs of Sydney for decades and watched it become more and more multicultural multi-ethnic based over that time. I couldn't get used to it so I moved out of that area to where I could live among my own kind, traditional Aussies, which is what I'd been used to most of my life from the time I was born

It was a simply matter of doing what was best for me. I'm better off for it, more peaceful, much more stable and content

There was a life cycle I went through. I started out in a traditional Aussie town, and ended up back in a traditional Aussie town (a village to be more precise). It was like coming home again, and I wondered why I ever lived in the big city for so long, then again it was my parents who went there when I was a kid, I had no choice but to tag along

It wasn't racism why I moved, it was freedom of choice, choosing to live elsewhere, in a place I liked better, where there are people I could easily relate to and connect with, my fellow traditional Aussies. It was all about being with my own kind, because that's what I've always been used to

I grew up with Wogs and I had a really good friend who was Chinese, a true blue in the end, they ran the local Chinese Restaurant (no surprise there)

All the kids become true blue so after a generation or 2 they were fully aussie IMO. Ok, sometime with a bit of wog in there but they were aussie.

They wante to assimilate. They wanted to be aussie.

The new crowd seem to want to subvert our culture with their own.

So I don't care if you are wogs, chinese or black. if you are one of us, you are an aussie.

If you want to remain different and try to change my society. Then I am against you.

So for me it is about culture and values, not colour of your skin or race.

Jovial Monk wrote on Sep 6^th, 2020 at 5:33pm:


Nothing to do with fear. Are dark skinned people scared of caucasians?

Lee King wrote on Sep 6^th, 2020 at 5:44pm:


We dominated the planet. Enslaved them historically. We built economic system that favour the white man. We historically diminished them to be a subhuman species. They fear our power, our wealth and our lifestyle.

While at an individual level, out on the streets they may not fear us. As an advanced society that we know how to fit in and work for our improved lifestyle that sometimes discriminates against some and the fact we have repressed them in the past, then yes I think they do.