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Originally posted by Scholarcs:
You say that it will never be equal. But as soon as people forget about race etc. then it will be. I have friends from every race in the world. And that is what people need now.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again.
It is easy for the conqueror to be blaise about this topic. You take their land, and then expect them to give up their language, their identity and their culture?
Blithely or blindly "Forgetting about race" doesn't promote harmony. That can promote resentment and frustration for the ABSORBED race. Acceptance and tolerance of difference is what promotes harmony.
Are you learning to speak, read and write Maori? Are you living the Maori way?
It's a one way street for Europeans. Expecting the dispossessed to assimilate into their culture, and then "forget about race". Easy to say when you are the dominant race with the dominant culture.
Can you not see your attitude is part of the problem?
It is faux acceptance. Accepting only that which seems the same.
True acceptance accepts that which one KNOWS AND SEES IS DIFFERENT.
The differences are what provoke TRAVEL, and DISCOURSE.
The differences of various cultures provide colour, vitality and heathy variety to our world.
It will be a horrible victory for blandness if and when MONOculturalism is victorious over MULTIculturalism.
I have friends from many races as well. I, we celebrate and find interest in each others differences.