Race, Ethnicity, and Culture
Race is among the most important aspects of our time. What is race? Is there an answer in science? Culture? Is race the same as ethnicity? Is it like an optical illusion, where “race” depends on who is looking?
How we respond to concepts of race may be more a feature of one’s own temperament and mindset, and our own tribalism, than science or history.
Race and tribalism are factors in religion, and politics, and war, as well as in friendship, love, and exploration of what it means to be human.
This group was created to explore race and the related concepts of ethnicity and culture, and to foster a better understanding from nonreligious, rational, science and history based points of view.
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Race, Ethnicity, and Culture 6 years, 6 months agoFor about 10 years, I moderated a discussion group about race, ethnicity, and culture, on a different Atheist forum. It was one of the more popular forums, and I learned a lot about what we mean by “race”, as well as how people filter their ideas through preconceptions and political idealogy – from the right and the left.
I hope that a forum…[Read more]
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I feel that cultural mixing of any kind is very creative, as we can see in the arts and music scenes in various countries (especially, in the West, the USA, UK and possibly France).
I don’t observe any racial differences in people but I find strong cultural variations according to where someone’s background is.
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Simon, I agree with you. One of my pet theories is that civilizations that are at cultural crossroads, with mixing of people, customs, and ideas, are the societies that advance and flourish. Think, Greece, Rome, the silk road, the British empire, and the United States. Conversely, I think societies that are isolated or turn inward to exclusion…[Read more]
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