Duplighost
Smash Ace
Is the human mind, by nature, racist? This question has come to my mind many times while discussing the topic of racism. Are some people racist because they have not taught themselves otherwise, or because they have been conditioned into discriminating against a particular race by an outside source?
It is true that in our most primeval state, humans wanted to stay in groups and cast away the "outsiders" (people that did not look like them) in order to survive. However, have you ever seen children on a playground blatantly discrimate someone of another race? Probably not—most likely because these children have not been influenced or conditoned into looking at another race as different from theirs.
Perhaps we all have racist tendencies that stem from or primeval lives, but the question still stands: Are humans inherently racist?
It is true that in our most primeval state, humans wanted to stay in groups and cast away the "outsiders" (people that did not look like them) in order to survive. However, have you ever seen children on a playground blatantly discrimate someone of another race? Probably not—most likely because these children have not been influenced or conditoned into looking at another race as different from theirs.
Perhaps we all have racist tendencies that stem from or primeval lives, but the question still stands: Are humans inherently racist?