Race

Race issues caused our bloodiest war, and still make headlines daily.

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Just as a white man has different skin color from a black man, so it is quite possible that he also has a somewhat different mind. But given what we know of evolution, it is not very likely. The evolutionary pressures that have shaped the human mind—principally competitive relations with kin members, tribal allies, and sexual partners—are and have been the same for white and black men and were at work before the ancestors of whites left Africa 100,000 years ago. While skin color is affected by things such as climate, which differs markedly between Africa and northern Europe, the shape of the mind is affected only very marginally by nonhuman problems such as what kind of game to hunt or how to keep warm or cool. Infinitely more important is how to deal with fellow human beings, and that is the same problem everywhere.
— Matt Ridley, The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

(One common rebuttal to the above you’ll find on the Internet is racial disparities in IQ. But these are overblown. With proper nutrition and culture, over a few generations, all groups converge to a baseline IQ of around 100. Take South Korea as an example.)

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Questions

Hey, Dan, what’s your race?

My parents are Hindu Banias from Rajasthan, India. But DNA testing shows I’m part Melanesian. So, like everyone else, I’m mixed.

Most non-white Americans have been abused (e.g. slavery, relocation, deportation, internment), so Americans are conditioned by decades or centuries of propaganda to label and mistreat them. Race is a product of violence, a contrived excuse for theft and murder.

But Indian-Americans have never been subject to a hate campaign by the American government, and I feel accepted for who I am. I love America, and am grateful for my good life here.

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