Copyright 2000 by Behrooz Bassim, MD

ON RACE AND PREJUDICE

Summary: it is natural to be prejudice.

1. Prejudice

     Prejudice is a natural behavior. Once I saw my 5 or 6 year old sister show her shoes to her friend, and say, "My shoes are prettier than yours." The problem was that that was not the case.

     Prejudice is simply saying, "Mine is better than yours, I am better than you, and/or my people are better than yours. It is a natural behavior, and an integral part of one's ego.

     Squash it in one area, and it will surface in another area: get rid of racial prejudice, and you'll have some other kind of prejudice to deal: my profession is better than yours, and I deserve a better pay!

     Get rid of prejudice completely, and you'll damage one's ego. Don't get rid of it, and you'll allow another's ego be damaged. Better let my sister think her shoes are prettier, better not let her say that to her friend!

2. Race

     People have the right to mix or not to mix racially. No one, including the government, has the right to enforce or advertise one way or another. Promoting racial mixing is as wrong as racial violence, and often is its cause.

     Having racially exclusive small communities would help preserve the purity of races while it would not prevent the people from mixing elsewhere.

     The beauty of a garden is in having different flowers. Pollinating them with one another to come up with one race of flowers is neither wise nor preferred by the evolution.

DATED: 9 October 2000

NOTE: The article above is from "Thus Speaks Zarathustra", a 4-volume book (presently not available) by Behrooz Bassim, MD. This book is a 21st century sequel to Nietzsche's 19th century masterpiece. Other pages from it on the internet are:

Abortion
Artificial Color & Flavor
Capitalism
Civility
Darwin Was Right So Was LaMarck
Democracy or Isocracy
Etymology of sacred, etc
God, Who?
Guns in USA
Homosexuality
Honesty
Me
Intelligence
Monetary, A Unique Unit, A unique
Particle Physics, Grand Spectrum
Plight of the Mice
Politician, The American
Race & Class
Sermon
Sham Justice
Soul Is Mind
Unidirectional Competition
Universal Army
Universal Language
Zarathustra

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