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Originally Posted by Mors Profundis No, we are guilty of what Diana Gabaldon calls presentism, applying our attitudes to people who lived in the past. |
I've seen other versions of this thread here and on other forums. Depending on how you define Racism, people in earlier cultures were all basically racist or they were all ignorant and it requires our modern understanding of equality to be a racist. It would be very hard to prove to an intelligent person in today's world the one race is superior or inferior to another. I'm not sure you can really define a race. I firmly believe what we refer to as race is more acurately defined as a culture. 100 years ago things were different. There was less scientific understanding (anthopologically along with biologically) Most people follow the attitudes of their cultures.