01-29-2018, 11:56 AM
(01-29-2018, 11:24 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: No, that's like saying the German killed their own people when they fought the Russians in WWI.
The fact that Europeans made up this concept that we are divided into races based solely on our skin color doesn't mean the rest of the world saw things so black and white (pardon the pun).
Your first point is true, your second point is pure fiction. Ethnicity, which is the correct word, is not an invention of the Europeans, it's a matter of genetics. If this were not the case then it would not be possible to determine a person's genetic ancestry down to minute regions. If you assertion is that Europeans invented ethnicity to justify treating other humans as less than human, well, you'd be wrong about that too. Asian culture rather excels at that concept as well and every culture, when confronted by ethnicities visibly different from their own, has indulged in the exact same behavior.
