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> Another species may have crossed a sea Imagine the probable racism if ie Americas were inhabited by truly different sub-species. Unless they would be able to

• cyberbanjo 6y ago
  Do you imagine horrors worse than the extremes of 'mundane' human on human racism? I think Homo Otherus wouldn't be desirable as food, so they might escape the fate of industrial scale culling.
• netcan 6y ago
  I don't really think it would have been a very different response. Racism is a form of our tribal xenophobia. The fact that racism came with a pseudoscientific logic is besides the point. European fascism managed to be fundamentally racist, even though Jews were culturally and physically similar. Early colonial racism in the americas was more of a religious bigotry than later forms, which were explicitly racist. It evolved It evolved into formal racism once conversion made religious bigotry unavailable. My point is, xenophobia is not really based on points of difference. Those are post facto. Also, I'm not sure to an Armenian sapien in the deal past, a neanderthal would have been more foreign than an Indonesian sapien. They would have both just seemed like foreigners. Maybe neighboring Neanderthals dressed or behaved more similarly than far-away sapiens. .