Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Why do they call it race?

The purpose of skin colors, hair amounts, and physical builds are to help a particular human survive in its native wilderness. Once the population of a specific region has become civilized enough to build durable shelters, these features start to lose importance. As the descendants of these newly civilized groups of people spread out and mix with other cultures with different features, the difference in these features fade away. Anyone has the right to associate with whomever they want. Inside the civilization (however advanced or not) the people work together to produce shelters. This is a simplistic way to say that many people of skill and knowledge erect structures that slowly chip away at the need for some of the natural defenses they were bestowed with. This cooperation has nothing to do with skin color, or nationality. Skin color has no real influence on the cooperation, only a perceived influence.

A person who concerns themselves with the true worth of a human being instead of the skin color can mate with someone of a different shade of skin color. Skin colors range from practically white to just about charcoal. The skin colors of two mates can compromise the shade of skin color, as well as other physical features. This in itself can spawn a new race of people. As time goes on, and people learn to traverse the globe, races mix, and form common races. Even today, cultures approve of same race marriages to keep the race pure, but this act only divides the globe. As colors eventually mix together, the lines between races begin to fade. Each new race that is created strengthens the positions of the original races. The new race advances and joins other races in a quest for happiness, and economic prosperity.

Humans who share skin color share a certain pride in their own race. Whether it be for joining hands and gaining much economic prosperity, or for realizing that race-mates have struggled in the same manner as themselves, people tend to identify with each other based on experiences. Races that are further behind can join the race to be acknowledged as a productive people on this earth. If the races that were well to do, reached down and picked up their brothers and sisters, brought every race to the level of the highest races, it would allow new people to help us solve the problems of the world. It would allow all people to advance to a point where every human being could contribute something to better society. It would lead to advancement as a whole, more hands, more brains all working to make this world a better place.

The world is in competition mode right now. Instead of Europe, Asia, and North America (the most advanced continents of the world) working together to advance already existing technology, they are in competition to be better than the other. Industrial espionage is the one tool used to keep a certain flow of information between competing nations. Without it, every country would have to advance at its own pace. See how well that has done for what we call Third World countries. The same Third World countries that we Americans are afraid of being “terrorized” by. What is the point of keeping various peoples at different places on the “technology-timeline” when we could cooperate and advance faster. Not only advance faster, but make life better for everybody all at once. We could master the laws of nature and break the chains of government, while feeling good about ourselves and each other. We could advance so quickly as to have the answers to problems that haven’t arisen yet. We would have an arsenal of technology to leap frog over obstacles thus leaving us time to concentrate on returning the Earth to a state of balance that maintains itself for eternity, thus defeating the term “End of the World.”

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Awesome Article! Love your writing...great perspective!
Peace, "Bella."