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I think the central misconception is summed up in this sentence: >Since there you don't really encounter anything different in terms of race/nationality/religi

I think the central misconception is summed up in this sentence: >Since there you don't really encounter anything different in terms of race/nationality/religion on daily basis, or even in a life time, you really don't have any negative association with someone who is new race/language/religion, it's like you have no data. What you're missing is that someone could very easily have racist tendencies in a homogeneous society. As you indicate in your post, people in homogeneous countries are just as quick to stereotype each other based on wealth, dialect, and so on. This sounds an awful lot like racism, except you replace the word race with any other personal attribute. Stereotyping a person based on how they talk or what their parents do is remarkably similar to stereotyping them based on their race. >Like when I see the person, first few things I see are they angry, something in their hand, expensive clothes, are they worried, what do they do, what are they doing, what are they thinking... So when you see a person, you're using their personal attributes to make some assumptions about them? Knowing that a person has expensive clothes tells me almost nothing about them as a person.

lifeplusplus 5y ago
If you see something you have never seen, you have no stereotype/pattern associated with it, negative or positive. You have lot of stereotypes for people you are aware of. And those are based on attributes that are differentiable. If race is an attribute that is indifferentiable then you never learn to utilize that trait in your mental framework of how the world works. I don't think stereotyping is illogical, I just don't think it's a positive approach.
deadbolt 5y ago
Racist tendencies is just tendencies that promote in-group/out-group thinking, right? There was a lot to cover in OPs post, but after reading it one of my first thoughts was "well sure, in a racially homogenous society, racism won't develop" ... which leads to: "People think of you differently based on what job you do and your parents do, what dialect you speak, what part of the town you live in, or what village/city you live/lived in, how wealthy you are, what sect of religion you follow" It appears to me that racism, racial profiling, is just the predominate form of profiling in America. Which makes sense, when you look at the history of the country. In countries which are not racially diverse, different reasons for discrimination occur.
- lifeplusplus 5y ago
  Yes that was my point discrimination exist just not along racial lines, which still sucks, but the benefit is that you can see the world in a non-racial way.

lifeplusplus 5y ago

If you see something you have never seen, you have no stereotype/pattern associated with it, negative or positive. You have lot of stereotypes for people you are aware of. And those are based on attributes that are differentiable. If race is an attribute that is indifferentiable then you never learn to utilize that trait in your mental framework of how the world works. I don't think stereotyping is illogical, I just don't think it's a positive approach.

deadbolt 5y ago

Racist tendencies is just tendencies that promote in-group/out-group thinking, right? There was a lot to cover in OPs post, but after reading it one of my first thoughts was "well sure, in a racially homogenous society, racism won't develop" ... which leads to: "People think of you differently based on what job you do and your parents do, what dialect you speak, what part of the town you live in, or what village/city you live/lived in, how wealthy you are, what sect of religion you follow" It appears to me that racism, racial profiling, is just the predominate form of profiling in America. Which makes sense, when you look at the history of the country. In countries which are not racially diverse, different reasons for discrimination occur.

lifeplusplus 5y ago
Yes that was my point discrimination exist just not along racial lines, which still sucks, but the benefit is that you can see the world in a non-racial way.