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Subject: Re: "The blacks"

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Alan

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Date Posted: 06:41:13 09/29/02 Sun
In reply to: Astrid 's message, "Re: "The blacks"" on 11:29:20 09/26/02 Thu

>>I think it would be a shame if we all became one big
>>mixed race. Differences are a good thing (or can be);
>>variety is the spice of life. Has anyone read Ursula
>>LeGuin's _Lathe of Heaven_?
>>
>>Alan
>
>No. Differences ARE a good thing! I just think that
>race is a bad thing. Everyone does a perfectly
>natural thing--we classify everything. We find
>patterns, whether they exist or not, in order to make
>sense of the world.
>
>One thing we do is to stereotype people. This will
>always happen. Fine. But when it's based on
>something as genetically irrelevant as the colour of
>your skin, it's just ugly.

Genetic irrelevance is not the same as cultural irrelevance. And I don't think the fact that black Americans tend to share a strong bond of common culture (despite their having far more genetic diversity than whites) is necessarily a bad thing.

Alan

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Subject	Author	Date
Re: "The blacks"	Astrid	21:00:10 09/29/02 Sun
Re: "The blacks" -- Alan, 01:47:47 10/01/02 Tue Re: "The blacks" -- Astrid, 10:10:59 10/01/02 Tue