The Burning Issue: Race and Racialism

[mlw]

The Burning Issue: Race and Racialism

Abstract: The problems of racial strife, ethnic conflict, discrimination, and ethnic ghettoization, show no sign of abating. The ideology of multiculturalism and "colour-blindness" has proved ineffectual. This article investigates why. Race as 'social construct' is criticized. Racial cognizance has its roots in the unconscious. Therefore it tends to be naive and exaggerated. This is borne out by research in cognitive science. Light is shed on psychology's view of ethnoracial difference. Differences depend on which aspects of our common heritage that are become dominant in the population. Thus, it is not necessary to rely on a biological explanatory model. Yet, a categorical denial of biological difference is not the right way to combat racism. Community psychology research shows that ethnic integration does not foster sense of community. Ethnocultural separation, while maintaining cultural transaction, is a better solution than integration. The article highlights the problem of difference anxiety in the context of ethnicity and race.

Keywords: cultural unconscious, white flight, segregation, psychosocial alienation, dark nature, human kinds, difference anxiety, ideology of sameness, cognitive science, cultural psychology, ethnic sociology.

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The Burning Issue Race and Racialism

M. Winther

 

[JakeStarkey]

We have this naturally for those who want it.

Ethnocultural separation, while maintaining cultural transaction, is a better solution than integration.

You don't get to tell anyone they can't live in your neighborhood because of ethnocultural facotrs.

 

[mlw]

We have this naturally for those who want it.

Ethnocultural separation, while maintaining cultural transaction, is a better solution than integration.

You don't get to tell anyone they can't live in your neighborhood because of ethnocultural factors.

Of course not, but that's not what I'm saying. It is the question of allowing for, and promoting, ethnocultural separation. Chinatown, Manhattan, is an attractive neighbourhood, I believe (I've never visited it). I suppose, the Chinese who have historically lived there have fared better psychologically than the Chinese living among other ethnicities in another cultural context. /M.

 

[JakeStarkey]

You suppose? OK Suppose away.

 

[mlw]

You suppose? OK Suppose away.

Just as I expected--just stupid remarks from someone who didn't even glance at the article.

 

[JakeStarkey]

I read. It's shyte.

 

[mlw]

So, in this article, although I do not rule out biological difference, I reason in terms of collective cultural complexes, pertaining to different ethnic groups. For example, the imbalance in violent crime for different ethnicities need not be predicated on racial biology. In the article I portray violence as "dark nature", which awakes as a consequence of inculturation, i.e., the goal of fitting every ethnic group into white culture and civilization. The argument is that "dark nature" awakes as a consequence of psychosocial alienation, when people must abide with rules, mores, and a way of life that contradict their inner being. It needn't be so, I argue, could we only achieve a transactional cultural separation, rather than continuing on the path of integration and assimilation, which is obviously a futile path.

M. Winther

 

[Unkotare]

Chinatown, Manhattan, is an attractive neighbourhood, I believe (I've never visited it). I suppose, the Chinese who have historically lived there have fared better psychologically than the Chinese living among other ethnicities in another cultural context. /M.

Wrong on all counts.

 

[Unkotare]

integration and assimilation, which is obviously a futile path.

Says who?

 

[JakeStarkey]

Only those motivated by malignancy suggest integration has failed.

Quite to the contrary, the race haters have failed.

 

[Asclepias]

The Burning Issue: Race and Racialism

Abstract: The problems of racial strife, ethnic conflict, discrimination, and ethnic ghettoization, show no sign of abating. The ideology of multiculturalism and "colour-blindness" has proved ineffectual. This article investigates why. Race as 'social construct' is criticized. Racial cognizance has its roots in the unconscious. Therefore it tends to be naive and exaggerated. This is borne out by research in cognitive science. Light is shed on psychology's view of ethnoracial difference. Differences depend on which aspects of our common heritage that are become dominant in the population. Thus, it is not necessary to rely on a biological explanatory model. Yet, a categorical denial of biological difference is not the right way to combat racism. Community psychology research shows that ethnic integration does not foster sense of community. Ethnocultural separation, while maintaining cultural transaction, is a better solution than integration. The article highlights the problem of difference anxiety in the context of ethnicity and race.

Keywords: cultural unconscious, white flight, segregation, psychosocial alienation, dark nature, human kinds, difference anxiety, ideology of sameness, cognitive science, cultural psychology, ethnic sociology.

Read the article here:
The Burning Issue Race and Racialism

M. Winther

You are free to move back to the caves you came from if you wish to practice only being around whites.

 

[Abishai100]

Communications Crevices

Critics were talking about how standardized tests in the USA (i.e., the SATs) are ethnically-biased and do not cater to the culture experience handicaps of African-Americans.

African-Americans are considered to speak a special dialect (or pidgin) version of standard English called Ebonics (a pseudo-language which has gained academic credence among a number of socio-linguists in American schools).

Ebonics is expressive and direct and reflects the experience of black in America, from slavery to the present. African-American rap musicians use Ebonics to construct their rhythmic lyrical structures in 'gangsta-rap' songs which speak to the problems of black youth in crime and unemployment-infested American inner-cities.

As experience varies, so does Ebonics. In fact, there are arguably many 'versions' of Ebonics across African-American groups living in the USA, and some derive from older, pre-Abolition traditions.

If we want to understand race in America, we have to understand communique intentionality.





Gullah Language (Wikipedia)

 

[Unkotare]

African-Americans are considered to speak a special dialect (or pidgin) version of standard English called Ebonics

No, not a pidgin.

 

[Asclepias]

Communications Crevices

Critics were talking about how standardized tests in the USA (i.e., the SATs) are ethnically-biased and do not cater to the culture experience handicaps of African-Americans.

African-Americans are considered to speak a special dialect (or pidgin) version of standard English called Ebonics (a pseudo-language which has gained academic credence among a number of socio-linguists in American schools).

Ebonics is expressive and direct and reflects the experience of black in America, from slavery to the present. African-American rap musicians use Ebonics to construct their rhythmic lyrical structures in 'gangsta-rap' songs which speak to the problems of black youth in crime and unemployment-infested American inner-cities.

As experience varies, so does Ebonics. In fact, there are arguably many 'versions' of Ebonics across African-American groups living in the USA, and some derive from older, pre-Abolition traditions.

If we want to understand race in America, we have to understand communique intentionality.





Gullah Language (Wikipedia)

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Ebonics is not pidgin. or pseudo. Its a very real dialect or language. Gangsta rap has plenty of songs in english as well as ebonics since more white kids listen to it. Real Hip Hop uses Ebonics but like gangsta rap it uses a lot of english as well.

 

[William Joyce]

The Burning Issue: Race and Racialism

Abstract: The problems of racial strife, ethnic conflict, discrimination, and ethnic ghettoization, show no sign of abating. The ideology of multiculturalism and "colour-blindness" has proved ineffectual. This article investigates why. Race as 'social construct' is criticized. Racial cognizance has its roots in the unconscious. Therefore it tends to be naive and exaggerated. This is borne out by research in cognitive science. Light is shed on psychology's view of ethnoracial difference. Differences depend on which aspects of our common heritage that are become dominant in the population. Thus, it is not necessary to rely on a biological explanatory model. Yet, a categorical denial of biological difference is not the right way to combat racism. Community psychology research shows that ethnic integration does not foster sense of community. Ethnocultural separation, while maintaining cultural transaction, is a better solution than integration. The article highlights the problem of difference anxiety in the context of ethnicity and race.

Keywords: cultural unconscious, white flight, segregation, psychosocial alienation, dark nature, human kinds, difference anxiety, ideology of sameness, cognitive science, cultural psychology, ethnic sociology.

Read the article here:
The Burning Issue Race and Racialism

M. Winther

Nice article. Putnam of Harvard affirms that integration doesn't make for a sense of community; rather, it destroys it.

Some more on this topic here:

Right of Association by Christopher Donovan

In the Western world in 2014, unwanted race relations go unquestioned and undiscussed. Neither liberals nor conservatives come anywhere near this topic, though its resolution has the potential to clear up so much of what ails us. A Harvard sociologist named Robert Putnam let slip this secret in a five-year study concluding that rather than “enrich” us, ethnic diversity harms civic life.[6] In the presence of diversity, “we hunker down… We act like turtles. The effect of diversity is worse than had been imagined. And it’s not just that we don’t trust people who are not like us. In diverse communities, we don’t trust people who do look like us.”[7] The least trusting place on Earth may well be the most multicultural: Los Angeles, California, Putnam found.

 

[William Joyce]

IN OTHER WORDS, RACIAL DIVERSITY LEADS US TO DISTRUST EVEN MEMBERS OF OUR RACE!

 

[Unkotare]

Census shows big jump in interracial couples USATODAY.com

 

[William Joyce]

These don't work out. Especially along the lines I'd expect: Asian lady + white man = lasting marriage; black man + white woman = megafail.

This tracks genetic distance -- which between Asians and whites is much smaller than between whites and sub-Saharan Africans.

A 2008 study by Jenifer L. Bratter and Rosalind B. King conducted on behalf of the Education Resources Information Center examined whether crossing racial boundaries increased the risk of divorce.[9] Using the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth (Cycle VI), the likelihood of divorce for interracial couples to that of same-race couples was compared. Comparisons across marriage cohorts revealed that, overall, interracial couples have higher rates of divorce, particularly for those that married during the late 1980s.[9] The authors found that gender plays a significant role in interracial divorce dynamics: According to the adjusted models predicting divorce as of the 10th year of marriage, interracial marriages that are the most vulnerable involve White females and non-White males relative to White/White couples.[9] White wife/Black husband marriages are twice as likely to divorce by the 10th year of marriage compared to White/White couples, while White wife/Asian husband marriages are 59% more likely to end in divorce compared to White/White unions.[9] Conversely, White men/non-White women couples show either very little or no differences in divorce rates.[9] Asian wife/White husband marriages show only 4% greater likelihood of divorce by the 10th year of marriage than White/White couples.[9] In the case of Black wife/White husband marriages, divorce by the 10th year of marriage is 44% less likely than among White/White unions.[9] Intermarriages that did not cross a racial barrier, which was the case for White/Hispanic White couples, showed statistically similar likelihoods of divorcing as White/White marriages.[9]

 

[Unkotare]

Multiracial people are fastest growing group - US news - Life - Race ethnicity NBC News

 

[Unkotare]

Mixed race in the UK am I the future face of this country - Telegraph