Benjamin Cain
1 min readMay 10, 2021

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Actually, I don't say our intrinsic racial biases are all about skin colour (last paragraph in the "Race as Culture" section). According to the studies, because birds of a feather flock together (we're afraid of otherness), we become more familiar with those who look like us, so it's harder for us to remember foreign faces. We prefer those who look like us as an extension of our preoccupation with ourselves (our self-interest). That's the genetic side of our inherent racial bias.

There are cosmopolitan societies, though, that can train their populations to resist that small-mindedness. The brain is flexible and can be rewired.

You say we should strive to be less racist, but my article is about how we should analyze that concept. Do you mean we should stop judging cultures? Because that's what I suspect is at the root of racial animus. It's not the mere superficial appearance of certain people that inflames bigots, but the cultural associations with that population. White supremacists think African Americans are lazy, slow-witted, and violent.

The first question, then, is whether there's an African American subculture that instills such characteristics, because of poverty, American history (slavery), and the stereotypes that reinforce these tendencies. Even if there's such a deficient Black culture, the second question is whether White consumer culture is superior to it, given that that White culture is in the lead in wrecking the planet.

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Benjamin Cain
Benjamin Cain

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