Is racial prejudice a natural instinct?
My personal opinion is/ there is a reason for different colored people. I don’t think it is for us to create different races out of mixing these. For instance, if you really look at africans without any prejudice and compare them to apes you must agree that most resemble the apes quite well. There must be some truth to human evolution and descendants from the animal kingdom. I also think that we are inherently different from each other and other continents. It is I feel a natural wish to stay with the tribe. It is not a good thing to breed outside of it. We are messing with the natural order of things when we do this. Society is really missing the mark here……..
No, I don’t think so. I am a white, English, and I guess, might be classified as middle class. I have never held a racial prejudice. My view is, and always has been, that people are people. I have sometimes thought that the most racist people are those who accuse others of racisism. Your example of Asian vs white folk may, or may not be an example.
I don’t think prejudice of any kind is natural instinct. If indeed Asians do dislike ‘white folk’ it’s probably because they’ve come across quite a few racist ‘white folk’ and have therefore stereotyped them all to be the same. In simple terms, if your accusations are accurate (which I actually doubt) then Asian folk probably hate white folk because they think the white folk hate them.
When babies develop, they do not see differences or distinctions between them and others. Look at how babies relate to other people. At this very young age, they are very curious and trusting. You will not likely see a baby crawl away from someone of another race or ethnicity. The same goes for most small children. They are much less judgmental than adults and are normally more open-minded until a parent or other authority figure tells that child otherwise. In learning racism, it could be from either a sense of superiority or from a feeling of defensiveness. In the first case, racists teach their children that they are better than everyone else. They raise their offspring to look down on other races and to avoid them. In the second case, it is often minorities that have a sense of resentment toward the majority group that instill defensive racism. They believe that they are helping their children by breeding a distrust in their children. Much like racial superiority, defensive racism r
