You don't have anything in common with people who are of your color.
This is blatantly incorrect. Skin color is a proxy for genetics, and genetics are a proxy for culture. You may have nothing in common with someone who shares your skin color, but you are absolutely more likely to share values, standards, and practices with someone who looks like you. And in case you haven't noticed, we make a lot of policy decisions based on shakier correlations than this one.
Whites have been led to believe the opposite by a century of intense and focused propaganda. Every other race has been encouraged to pursue solidarity. Ideally, we would recognize the truth of it while not allowing it to dominate our societal or individual interactions.
This is blatantly incorrect. Skin color is a proxy for genetics, and genetics are a proxy for culture.
Now that is blatantly incorrect. If you are a remotely sane individual, you will have more in common with a black Nigerian Christian than with a white Bosnian Muslim. I meant to say that you don't have anything in common necessarily, and that it is quite a bad measuring stick.
but you are absolutely more likely to share values, standards, and practices with someone who looks like you.
I disagree that someone who is your color 'looks like you'.
Every other race has been encouraged to pursue solidarity.
Only in your country. Not anywhere else. You don't see Muslims pursuing solidarity with people of their color who do not share their religion.
This is blatantly incorrect. Skin color is a proxy for genetics, and genetics are a proxy for culture. You may have nothing in common with someone who shares your skin color, but you are absolutely more likely to share values, standards, and practices with someone who looks like you. And in case you haven't noticed, we make a lot of policy decisions based on shakier correlations than this one.
Whites have been led to believe the opposite by a century of intense and focused propaganda. Every other race has been encouraged to pursue solidarity. Ideally, we would recognize the truth of it while not allowing it to dominate our societal or individual interactions.
Now that is blatantly incorrect. If you are a remotely sane individual, you will have more in common with a black Nigerian Christian than with a white Bosnian Muslim. I meant to say that you don't have anything in common necessarily, and that it is quite a bad measuring stick.
I disagree that someone who is your color 'looks like you'.
Only in your country. Not anywhere else. You don't see Muslims pursuing solidarity with people of their color who do not share their religion.