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> The ancient Greeks also had slaves. They were not Negroes but white men who had been taken captive in war. There could be no talk of racial differences. As S
by 33223332323 12y ago
> The ancient Greeks also had slaves. They were not Negroes but white men who had been taken captive in war. There could be no talk of racial differences.
As Slavic I find this inaccurate and bit offensive :-)
- learc83 12y agoMost people in America would consider a Slavic person white. There is no scientific definition of "white", it is a social construct that has changed to be more inclusive as various groups integrated into American society.
- 33223332323 12y agoIt does not even compute...
- kzrdude 12y agoWhat is weird from my perspective is how the races as concepts still are accepted and used, even though they are ambiguous and deeply problematic. For example those that have the "pleasure" of hearing "but you are white" will understand that there is a scale of whiteness and you've just been graded on that scale.
- throwaway90446 12y agoUnless and until our recent era of mass global travel results in a highly genetically uniform species, we will continue to have population groups that share allele groupings differently than other population groups which share different allele groupings.
- vixen99 12y agoA bit offensive? Why?
- xxxyy 12y agoBecause there are racial-alike tensions within the Caucasian people, such as Nazi/Jews, West/Slavic, Protestant/Catholic.
- throwaway90446 12y agoUnable to reply to your other flagkilled comment, so I'll reply here. It's amusing that bringing up facts in a community ostensibly self-selected to prize discovery and reason is sufficient cause to be silenced. pg and the community he fostered has come a long way since this: http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
- xxxyy 12y agoYes, that is absolutely correct. And I find it sad that such thoughtless mechanisms are exactly what powered the worst forms of racism in the history. Edit: would just like to point out that I was flagkilled before any response came, so currently my post is invisible in this thread.
- tinco 12y agoI don't know the history of it, but it seems likely that Greece waged a lot of war with the (slavic) countries north of it, so their slaves would be predominantly of slavic descent. Slavic people also have a pretty easily discernable look to them, at least many do, so it's not hard to imagine they could be subject to racial discrimination in Greece.
- tsax 12y agoLol how do you think 'slavs' got their name? Have you looked at the Arab and Ottoman slave trade?
- 999199919991 12y agoSlavs moved into southern Europe 1000 years after Aristotle :)