Bamboozled: A Dormant Racism

[Andrew]

The way I interpreted

Actually it's Africans whose dark scin reflects more sunlight ;)

Was that they do reflect (not absorb) more sunlight and I got this because in the northern US they add some nutrients (or vitamins) to milk for black people because it is not as sunny up north as it is in the south. Thus they don't get as much sun. Or maybe I am completely mistaken somehow. That whole vitamins in milk thing was the first thing to come to my mind.

Also there was a report that was just released that said that there are virtually no asians on television. Except for the show "Lost", which the survey thingy praised for having so many, and for speaking in native language.

[Anathema]

Well sun light is necessary for all humans to produce vitamin D3. In Africa there's plenty of sunlight, to much in fact so native Africans are black to provide natural protection. In the northern regions (or far south) on the other hand this becomes a hindrance. That would explain why darker skinned people would need food fortified with extra vitamins, or just eat a lot of meat like the inuits.

It's obvious that if there are few [insert minority here] in a country, that they won't be represented very well on national media.

However, if you flip on CNN you actually might get the impression that caucasians are a minority in the US. I don't know what kind of show "Lost"  is, but I figure that they deliberately cast in a lot of Asians, like CNN does, to get people to view you as tolerant and accepting.

[Caid Ivik]

Caid: at first, I wasn't really sure wether you were being sarcastic. I mean, your entire post is filled with your attempts to show other people how knowledgable you're about history, and it's not the first time it clouds people ability to understand what the hell you are saying ::)

Being intelligent (and psychotic) doesn't make you great. I never said so. I have little doubt that Bin Laden and Kim Jong Il are very bright little fellows, but it doesn't mean I think they're "great".

I don't think I need to defend my point any further, so I'll leave it there.

No, I just felt you are all still painting nazists in some kind of a vulgar spiritless movement led by a psycho. Hitler and others knew what they were doing.

[Egeides]

Well, actually, "white" people are more pink than white... :D

Are YOU treating ME of pink? Are you?!? :O

Superiority in tools easily transfers in "superiority" without the "in tools" added. People showing themselves as superior because they have a big car are just as "funny" (like in "it smells funny) as people showing themselves superior because they have a good brain, good education, or can throw arrows very accurately (this arrow thing was important for Native Americans: it showed determination, a certain "style" and so on: just as now with pen and paper, managing money in stock market with a tie or else).

This is some deformation of Nietzsche's principles or something... or just taking Nietzsche a bit too far: from being good for oneself, and being good compared to others; something which exists since aeons. Have more tools (or look like such)? Oh, you're intrinsically superior. Solution? Well, it always helps when everyone is given its chance so that actually each can get his tools. This means that others can hardly say anything when the others are showing just as efficient. Wasn't it the case with the nobles? I guess that their position about the nobles' superiority is quite understandable when Tolstoy would free his serfs... and they would come back asking him to stay their master. This is just one of many exemples which would be around them on a daily basis, just as now communication isn't better between certain groups. Reality could modify that... and if reality turns backwards, it could put some in a better position and bring them as being intrinsically superior. Nobles under another name. Think Dune ;)