so darwin got a theory on that? What gene is the racist one?
i thought racism had a lot more to do with education and how your parents brought you up.
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why are yous a fan of juve??
My brother and cousins were interistas... We always fought about everything so when i started following football in 2003 I loved Nedved and DP (especially the former). Then calciopolis happened and I started reading about how Juve were taken down and I fell in love with the club and have been following it religiously ever since.
Its not about evolution its more instinctive. Go to any city that has loads of different ethnic groups and you'll see that people from the same races tend to group together, share the same neighborhoods and so on even if they all speak the same language. Birds of the same feather tend to fly together. That doesnt mean that the races will despise each other or actively campaign or enslave them but people of the same race tend to bond with their own better.
Like you said, education can definitely change that to a great extent but the fact that you need education to kill racism implies that the non-educated state will probably include racist attitudes. The same can be said about sexism. Its not like human beings were aliens before the new humanistic values came to being.
Our instincts are many and mostly contradicting we are part altruistic and part dominating, part competitive and part cooperative, part violent part peaceful and each one of us has a different psychological make up and more active instincts than others. We are neither naturally good nor evil we are both.
Racism and sexism will always exist either implicitly or explicitly. Moral education can tame our instincts or channel it (how sports are channels for our violence, how being a fan stirs up nationalistic/tribal emotions etc..) but even the tamed animals still preserve their instincts albeit at a diminished level).
Lets get back on topic