Quote Originally Posted by Pindar
Racism is a flawed position because race as a category is problematic.
Agreed. And that's exactly the problem, ignorance. As any idea it's expressed with a porpose, having tremendous effect on reality, this one. I think that many times races surged to be an expiatory of the rest of society, and that's all. Anyway dening that are differences beetween our people, fisical specially, is a lie, what everybody must understand that as humans we are all the same. For that i think that racism is only bad when it has effects on reality, making a separation (even joking about reciprocal defects) is not bad stereotyping isn't bad (just ignorant) while it don't turns in hostile thoughts.
I believe that racism on the Middle East comes from the interpretetion on religion. Some groups believe (as every religion is based on blind believes) and someothers not. The problem is that in Afganistan this is coming to unbearable proportions because the state is saying what the people can do or not do concerning even religion, and many people are mainteined in ignorance by this, i think that hostile thoughts against anything unknown or banned by this oppresive state, eventually apears.
Anyway i would like to say that racism is not an isolated event, happens in all the world. To me is a natural psicologycal thing that rises from ignorance when in any given place there's any type of propaganda on that favor, and nationalism, i personally don't like nationalism.