What do you think it will take to completely abolish racism in the world?

[ardour]

Racism isn't going away any time soon.

Regarding our soon to be masters... The Han Chinese view of the world was and to some extent still is essentially racist; foreigners are viewed as being intellectually inferior (low IQ), particularly non East Asians. The less said about their attitude towards dark skinned people, the better.



(she's Chinese in every meaningful way, except to other Chinese)

 

[LeaningIntoTheMuse]

How would you assume that China is going to buy out America? They don't want to do that.

 

[Felix]

Easy, just get rid of people.

/thread.

 

[davey]

I'm sick and tired of all this. You can't even say monochrome without being accused of honeysuckle. I'm sick and tired of all this honeysuckle. I am sick of it.

 

[MTrip]

A world without humans in/on it. Other than that, ravism will always exist. Racism itself is just one kind of prejudice, & the propensity for prejudice is an ineradicable part of the human condition. Even if everyone could somehow be compelled to interbreed until the human population were all the same hue, people would find some other reason to divide into groups & hate each other.

 

[ladyforsaken]

Life without humans? There would be no you or I. How's that gonna work?

It's not just racism. As long as there are differences in any form, there will always be discrimination. It has to start from the first set of humans on earth.. to not learn that particular character attribute that discriminates other people who are different from own self. Otherwise, I don't think anything can abolish racism in this world.. not unless the whole world blows up and everyone dies.

 

[MTrip]

Life without humans? There would be no you or I. How's that gonna work?

Why wouldn't it work? This planet got along well enough until the last few million years, when one mid-sized species of primate started running around the African savannah & wondered what to do with its hands. The only serious disruption not involving a meteor strike was when one-celled fungi in the sea evolved chlorophyll. Oxygen was originally a pollutant.

 

[Solivagant]

It's not just racism. As long as there are differences in any form, there will always be discrimination.

^ This.

 

[Walley]

first step to eliminating racism would be to eliminate religion. that is the true cause of most of our problems imho. and racism would fade away shortly after.

 

[ardour]

first step to eliminating racism would be to eliminate religion. that is the true cause of most of our problems imho. and racism would fade away shortly after.

Religion stresses racial unity as often as it does division.

National Socialism was essentially atheistic. The KKK is essentially atheist while trying to pass themselves off as Christian. Renaissance and 19th century Racism had pseudo scientific ideas at it's foundation (warped Darwinism usually)

 

[seanski]

it will never be abolished while we continue to elect the current government elect....racism is worth a lot of money and cause for wars which are productive to fiscal dominance

 

[Wailun]

We need an extra terrestrial alien threat. It'll do the trick

 

[Walley]

it seems to be a popular misconception that racism and discrimination is a part of natural human behavior.
although it may have been historically, I don't believe that it is built into our DNA as some may suggest...
although when I look around, I admit that it is hard to deny it's existence in a majority of people to varying degrees.
but the reason that I know it is NOT a part of our souls inherently, is because when I look deep within myself and be completely honest.. I can say without a doubt that I personally feel no racism what so ever.
I am surrounded by mixed races daily at my job, in my town and in my neighborhood.
when I am online, I am also connecting to people from various countries, cultures and backgrounds.
multiculturalism is an active part of my daily life.
and I like it!
it makes the world feel smaller to me.
and because of all of this, I am certain that racism is simply a learned attitude that we are not born with, and it is not a part of our genes.
it is simply a part of our societies.

 

[Lippy_Kid]

What a complicated question. What will it take to free the human spirit of all malevolence the world over, free of anger and preconception and for everyone to be completely at peace with their place in the world and with all fellow humans around them? Well something pretty profound and game changing!

I know someone said Aliens landing, probably in jest but I think contact or at least evidence of a civilisation on another planet may have a profound impact on how we view ourselves. I think in 250 years we will have established there is life elsewhere. With trillions of stars in the universe and the ever increasing capability to directly image them and their exoplanets, eventually we will spot a lonely planet like our own and be able to detect distant oceans and possibly artificial light from cities on that world. By then I believe Religion will have become far less militant and probably in significant decline as a concept in the first place. Interracial breeding will mean we will slowly adopt a generic racial skin tone and a common culture and language which will resolve a lot of the misunderstanding and suspicion we live under at the moment. Perhaps at that moment when we are so similar the world over, seeing that other distant world will bring us closer together.

Lovely! Unfortunately we will probably be brought together with a common goal to travel to that world conquer it, exploit it and start the whole stupid process over again. Or maybe we will become sanctimonious pacifist star travellers like in Star Trek. Who knows!? I’m guessing humans, of all races, will always find something to direct their aggression at.

 

[Walley]

I think that alien contact would only shift peoples racism and they would become racist against aliens instead of fellow humans. the color of our skin wouldn't seem so different as compared to another set of legs and an exoskeleton!