your call yesterday Anna and I did agree on terms the way you were
dealing with it in terms of the question race and enough his or her contention
that
Europeans were somehow inherently superior to other groups and what not
was the guy who said that the bob is that after americans are practicing
reverse racism and that the proof love
the got inferiority I guess I've up after americans
of people of color in general was that Africa as a lotta resources it is not an
incredibly prospering continent
and I pointed out that it's only you know 1965 was when churchill pulled
England out of I love the Uganda I've been there
nom I've been in Sudan I've been in many of these countries these former colonies
and colonialism is still
echo in there it's just like you know slavery and racism is still echo in here
that says nothing
to do with race it has to do purely with exploitation pardon me for a and I think
that I think you're right
I'm is there a distinction that we can make however between
racism and ethnocentrism armbar their
great certain authors and scholars to look at for instance you know the
differences between
Northern Europe Central Europe southern Europe Eastern Europe and look at the
way the historically
a special northwestern Europe embraced a
the concepts of the Enlightenment reason rationality logic scientific method
and cultivated those ideas over centuries
such that they did develop an advantage over other parts of the world
where you know we don't we don't have a criminal justice system in the West says
you know I'm
my and rockwell woke up this morning and said she had a dream that such-and-such
are committed a crime so therefore we're going to use disorder superstitious
nonsense
to prosecute someone right so which is actually done in Massachusetts by the
way in the 17th century
back with my centuries ago so I at what point do we
recognize because I don't wanna throughout the entire field of social
science
and I'm especially sociology that recognizes that there are differences
among societies and at some point is incumbent upon us to be honest and say
that those differences will result in advantage for some people
and disadvantage for others having again embraced
certain concepts I think you're right I you know and sand
both ethnocentrism and classism
to the extent that you can define it I think you could say the same about both
now
the difference between the two course is that public policy can shift people
in and out of classes and does regularly whereas it can't
shift people in and out of I love culture
not have ethnic background out of not affect you know
heritages or but I out are I think your essay right the one
the one caveat that I would put in there though is BA to be very very careful
love
is that we have
we Western European culture
to say um largely white culture but their
many people of color who are fully members and fully embrace all the ideals
of that culture
we have for many years been sane to people
who are not part of our culture whether it's the the the pot a mommy in
in in the the brain force a Brazil or whether it's
a you know people in in Eastern Europe for living in
in upper you know it the gypsies you know the Roma people are well whoever it
may be
we have said to them the people all over the world we would be glad to embrace
you have just if you just become just like us we've said this to Native
Americans
and what this really is in many cases sometimes it's genuinely benevolent are
useful but in many cases what it is
is the velvet glove over the iron fist up a Dominator culture
that's that is destroying the cultures religions languages and histories
of other people then we have to be very very careful about absolutely correct
but I
I would ask you is that each inevitability
given that the world is becoming more homogeneous in terms of our technologies
communication we r
share much more than we ever did before it turns a common culture
and and values and so forth and that that was inevitably going to be the case
in the same way that
you know one village that was ten miles away from another village five thousand
years ago
had may have had independent cultures but over the centuries
it was it was going to simply be the case that we're going to assimilate
they were going to merge and at this point in the world
there probably is going to be one language they're probably going glitches
become pretty much the default language if you go back to the 18th century was
French actually was the default language in the world
you know is used for diplomacy in for for communication and you go back you
know
be two millennia ago it was Rev if
Latin you know 0 min slab but
but the hmm I think that you're right
and that's why it's on combat upon us who are members of his Dominator culture
the one that is
most rapidly spreading around the world to do everything we can to make this
culture
more humane more human more
more sensitive to life and the issues the planet
any and and make it a better culture make sense and recognized it
cultures though they may not be into was with me
may consider important if they have a lot to contribute and its absolutely
shoes
they were right and perhaps are not always right yes
absolutely and and and and again always be very very careful about that
iron-clad a rare perspective Steve thank you for the call