Introduction in case you want to know what you will likely forget as unimportant.

[Marvin Zinn]

I am here because I am looking for beliefs of what I learned in history, and this point racialism classification. But my work in most states and 20 countries cause me different viewpoints than most have in a limited area.

I may not have much time for this, but it will have many other subjects I will be interested in and may add comments to, but may forget to return.

marvinlzinn

 

[Ringel05]

It appears your first language isn't English.
Good luck and welcome.

 

[Marvin Zinn]

It appears your first language isn't English.
Good luck and welcome.

It is English (American that is), but I am never good in spelling, and from an injury with seven weeks coma a few years ago I lost half of my vocabulary.

 

[April]

Hello Marvin...

 

[william the wie]

Hello

 

[Mertex]

Hi Marvin.....welcome to our Forum......is racialism the same as racism to you?

 

[Marvin Zinn]

No, quite different, but there are a lot (perhaps most) word definitions that do not match. What is most important is to be willing to accept what came from an opposite experience. I learned this from my own variety of life in many parts of the world. If I do not fit, I have to either stay away, be willing to change, or teach someone else that it is wise to admit ignorance and see something different. Without this, we are having more arguments, disputes and violence that accomplish nothing!

 

[Darlene]

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Racialism is the belief that the human species is naturally divided into distinct biological categories called 'races.' According to the Oxford English Dictionary, racialism is synonymous with racism.[1]
Although at least one definition of racism entails a presumption of racial superiority and harmful intent, racialists claim their use of the label "racialism" entails only a fixation on racial categorization, without a philosophical commitment to racial superiority and an intent to harm. Their focus is claimed rather to be on identity politics or racial segregation. Organizations such as NAAWP insist on racial distinctions, but claim to oppose state-sponsored racism, such as American slavery and Jim Crow segregation.
The ties between the historical evolution of racialism and racism are examined by Kwame Anthony Appiah in his book In My Father's House:
"the view—which I shall call racialism—that there are heritable characteristics, possessed by members of our species, which allow us to divide them into a small set of races, in such a way that all the members of these races share certain traits and tendencies with each other that they do not share with members of any other race. These traits and tendencies characteristic of a race constitute, on the racialist view, a sort of racial essence; it is part of the content of racialism that the essential heritable characteristics of the "Races of Man" account for more than the visible morphological characteristics—skin color, hair type, facial features—on the basis of which we make our informal classifications. Racialism is at the heart of nineteenth-century attempts to develop a science of racial difference, but it appears to have been believed by others—like Hegel, before then, and Crummell and many Africans since—who have had no interest in developing scientific theories.
According to racialists, the racial essence implied by racialism entails intellectual dispositions, a perspective that many have called racist. Despite these accusations of racism, racialists claim that, provided positive moral qualities are hypothetically distributed across the racial categories that racialists posit, each racial category can be respected by having its own "separate but equal" caste.

 

[Marvin Zinn]

Yes, that is a good description of the real meaning. The problem is that meanings change according to personal experience and/or defense or power attempts. That is why I learned to never assume I understand what someone says against me unless I ask more questions about it, trying to be specific.

 

[Mertex]

Yes, that is a good description of the real meaning. The problem is that meanings change according to personal experience and/or defense or power attempts. That is why I learned to never assume I understand what someone says against me unless I ask more questions about it, trying to be specific.

I suppose that most of us agree that there is racialism, and recognize the different races......it becomes racism for those who (like the Oxford English Dictionary specifies) use it to mean that some races are superior to others and then act on that assumption.

 

[Marvin Zinn]

Hmmm. A lot of similar questions:

Are men better than women?

Are mice better than cats? (They can get into secret places easier.)

Is rich better than poor?

Is it better for me to be serious, or joke when someone thinks I am serious.

marvin

 

[Statistikhengst]

Hello Marvin.

It is moot.

We are ALL homo sapiens. Monkeys, all of us, every last one!

 

[Marvin Zinn]

OK, I'll try to keep you from your capture taken to a zoo.

 

[Statistikhengst]

OK, I'll try to keep you from your capture taken to a zoo.

We are ALL Monkeys, all of us. Kiss a Monkey today!