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] Date Posted: 18:59:18 10/31/04 Sun In reply to: What about India? 's message, "Why are the proposed members of the Federal Commonwealth mostly white? NT" on 17:21:51 10/31/04 Sun [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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Author: Ed Harris (Venezia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 13:44:09 11/01/04 Mon Racism racism everywhere, and not a stop to think. This is not about creating a white supremacist state, but a country based on loosely connected countries which share a common history and culture. There are many non-white people who share our culture, and many white people who don't. Norwegians are racially closer to us than Frenchmen, but Frenchmen are our partners in the European Union and Norwegians are excluded from British trade, security and political arrangements. And they are both white, and we don't want to federate to either of them. On the other hand, Jamaica is cordially invited, in spite of being predominantly black. Racism? Not here, laddie! Surely the conversation about Boers somewhere else on this forum is demonstrative that the FC is based on culture not skin colour. Indeed, I would argue that Indians and Pakistanis would make better candidates for Federation than the Boers, so I hardly think that skin colour is an important criterion here. Skin colour, incidentally, aside from the moral dimension, is the most useless way ever devised to make a hierarchy of the races. Compared to me, for example, a reasonably pale hispanic might as well be Nelson Mandela. But a Scandinavian would find me very dark. The Arabs look down on the Indians as dark and hence degenerate, but, in turn, the Greeks think the Arabs dark, and the Africans think them weirdly pale. It just doesn't work, and as soon as we eradicate the bizarre tendency in human beings to think that skin colour differentiation makes sense, the better for international relations and the hope for the future of humanity. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |