If you have no time, no will, no forces for completing writing tasks and really want to assignment help, now you’re welcome to our world.You'd best be careful with this. They put people in jail up here for cheating on the SAT. Not much difference between that and cheating in order to bump up one's GPA.
But what about all the think pieces, talk show segments, and books about it?
snowcity said: But what about all the think pieces, talk show segments, and books about it?What books and what do they say? Can you quote and link to available info?
thatoneguy said: I guess we can’t compete with insects, though we do flight pretty well for a species that does not have wings.Do we? That's a relative statement at best.
Every species and variety within species has strengths and capabilities that make them perfectly suited to deal with their environment. That is beauty of evolution and natural selection over time.
The insect has survived for some 400 million years of every possible natural disaster you can think of and come out triumphantly. As Hellstrom observed; apart from bacteria, there are only two species on the increase man and the insect. Man, because we a can alter our environment at a cost, and the insect who can adapt to every alteration in the environment man can make, for free and is ultimately better equipped to survive than man.
Well the term white privilege was in my sociology class, used around my college, etc. You can’t escape it
Actually here it is: Privilege - RationalWiki
Privilege is not superiority
snowcity said; Well the term white privilege was in my sociology class, used around my college, etc. You can’t escape itThat only means something in a specific environment. Try and survive a week in the ghetto and see where privilege gets you. Try and survive a week in the jungle or in the desert and see where privilege gets you. The Kennedy's were priviliged people and decent as well. Princess Diana was a privileged and very decent. Where did it get them?
You cannot escape natural law. Adapt or die. That’s the inescapable law of nature. Natural selection still reigns supreme.
You know, maybe these people who think they are privilege because they are white need to spend some time in Harlem or maybe downtown St. Louis on Cass St and neighbourhoods nearby. Being white, to some, not all though, won’t get you very far because rye bread gets farther in the hood than white bread and white bread just might need an escort out of the hood. Cass St in St. Louis, especially towards evening, is far different than inner city Springfield MO. Mind you, one can have to biracial babies and still be told by black men that you don’t belong there, even if you are in the women’s shelter down the street and just walking to the corner store just to get a soda with your babies minding your own business. I had to be escorted out everytime I wanted to leave the shelter for some reason until they could find another women’s shelter for my sons and me after I left my first husband years ago. The next women’s shelter was still in a black neighbourhood, but it was a better neighbourhood. They didn’t mind my presence as much and I didn’t plan on acting stupid either. However, if I were one to be stupid, I probably wouldn’t lasted long in any women’s shelter anyway. All I’m saying is, there’s certain black neighbourhoods where they don’t like white people present period and you won’t get very far without some sort of escort. You can’t necessarily adapt, because you can’t change you skin colour, so you leave so you don’t die.
there’s certain black neighborhoods where they don’t like white people present period and you won’t get very farWe can swap black and white in that sentence and it will still be true; unfortunate in both cases.
We might like to believe that humans could rise above mob tyranny, but that doesn’t seem to be. Just like most of our animal relatives, we perceive strength in numbers of our own “kind” and that perception makes us more confident and more aggressive. Likewise we perceive threat when outnumbered and that causes us to separate. I see it as a “birds of a feather” thing that we aren’t likely to get past any time soon.
Its not limited to skin color either, we separate ourselves on financial, religious and political bases too. I was struck by Tim Barton’s (referenced in another thread) comment that the Constitution was produced on the condition that nothing would be included in it unless all agreed with including it, and thus the great compromise the Constitution was. That was one way of attacking polarization!
@ibelieveinlogicWe can swap black and white in that sentence and it will still be true; unfortunate in both cases.
We might like to believe that humans could rise above mob tyranny, but that doesn’t seem to be. Just like most of our animal relatives, we perceive strength in numbers of our own “kind” and that perception makes us more confident and more aggressive. Likewise we perceive threat when outnumbered and that causes us to separate. I see it as a “birds of a feather” thing that we aren’t likely to get past any time soon.
Its not limited to skin color either, we separate ourselves on financial, religious and political bases too. I was struck by Tim Barton’s (referenced in another thread) comment that the Constitution was produced on the condition that nothing would be included in it unless all agreed with including it, and thus the great compromise the Constitution was. That was one way of attacking polarization!
Nicely said. Regarding our Founding Fathers I think the other key they possessed was in recognizing their own blind spots and fundamental accepting that we need each other to keep ourselves honest - and to best handle the big challenges.
Thus consensus thinking, that is recognizing that study, knowledge and experience of many leads to better choices.
But, very smart people working for wealthier than god madmen, who wanted to be gods, figured out how to fabricate doubt, brainwash the masses using Jesus and self-certitude and they managed to unseat respect for consensus (and we silly liberal types still haven’t figured out how to counter that self-certitude.)
and on and on. later
We can swap black and white in that sentence and it will still be true; unfortunate in both cases.
That was my whole point! You just said it with the first sentence, so you actually, finally, got something.
Lausten said; Try getting to the moon without algebra. Now go find out where that word comes from.Not from Europeans.
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi was a 9th-century Muslim mathematician and astronomer. He is known as the "father of algebra", a word derived from the title of his book, Kitab al-Jabr.Oct 20, 2015Al-Khwarizmi: The Father of Algebra | Middle East | Al Jazeera www.aljazeera.com › programmes › science-in-a-golden-age › 2015/10
Pardon me for being a stickler about what evolution is. Above it was stated “… Adapt or die. That’s the inescapable law of nature…”.
It is not exactly correct. Everyone dies. So saying “Adapt or die” is an erroneous portrayal of “natural law”. More correctly it would be, be lucky enough to have a characteristic that helps you stay alive long enough (in your existing environment) to procreate. That is how evolution works, and thus is the “natural law” I think was referenced.
Also, we must take care to recognize the difference between natural evolution and the similar but-not-the-same process of selection of and extinction of cultural beliefs, such as ideas like “white supremacy”.
The latter (cultural ideas) are not about biologically passing on their characteristics. They survive and evolve by virtue of groups of humans (in which they exist) passing them on in some fashion, potentially, across multiple modalities (e.g., literature, mass media, patterns of actions by people, thru art, etc., etc., etc.).
A problem is that how cultural beliefs evolve is not necessarily going to give us biological humans a better chance of survival. Generally cultural ideas, practices, beliefs, etc. do give groups a better chance of cohesiveness and stability as a group (not as an organism). Otherwise those ideas would tend to be replaced by better ideas, (better that is, in maintaining group cohesiveness and identity).
@timb - You’re pretty hip on this stuff. If I had the time I’d put together a little collection of your quotes.
Now if only the people who need to think about this stuff wouldn’t be ignoring it, we’d all be way ahead of this game.
Another aspect of this NEED FOR A SENSE OF SUPERIORITY I find crazy, is that we are so interconnect, biologically, intellectually, economically, ever artistically the cross breeding between Country and Rock is pervasive. So superior to what? Oh yeah, skin color, ethnic backstory, have and have nots, and keeping the order.
Just that whole notion of needing to feel superior is so f’n contrived, we all have varying strengths and weakness and they ebb and flow as we live our lives, humans are social animals, tribalism is in our nature, but curiosity and seeking variety and change, reaching across barriers is just as much a part of nature.
The other part of the white supremacists is all their crying about how crowded thing are and all the foreigners they need to deal with degrading their quality of life, blah, blah, well j f’n c, it’s your superior white grand daddies, going back generations who dragged and bribed and tricked all these foreigners into your precious nation, which was built on the genocide of the nations that lived their before.
No sense of responsibly, incapable of appreciating the root causes. Some superior race.
www_pri_org/stories/2019-01-31/european-colonization-americas-killed-10-percent-world-population-and-causedEuropean colonization of the Americas killed 10 percent of world population and caused global cooling
The Conversation
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By Alexander Koch
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www_vox_com/2015/5/27/8618261/america-maps-truths6 maps that Americans don’t like to talk about
By Max Fishermax@vox_com May 27, 2015, 8:00am EDTThe United States has a lot to be proud of: it is the most powerful country on Earth and a global leader in culture and innovation as well as international affairs, and has a well-earned reputation for freedom and democracy. But, like any country, it has its flaws, as well. And those flaws are important to remember and examine — even if many Americans would probably rather not think about them.
Just saying, perspective is everything.
tunnel vision and self-certitude is a sure sign of . . . . .
Just that whole notion of needing to feel superior is so f’n contrived, we all have varying strengths and weakness and they ebb and flow as we live our lives, humans are social animals, tribalism is in our nature, but curiosity and seeking variety and change, reaching across barriers is just as much a part of nature.
You tell 'em CC. This idea of whites creating the modern world is backwards. The modern world was created by realizing how messed up the ancient world was. In that one, empires rose and fell around the world, almost always playing out a story of believing they had some the superior notion of how to rule the world. If you look at the current dominant empire, you could be mistaken that it’s a white creation and that it’s the superiority of those whites that created it. You’d be missing two things, 1) they created it on the backs of all the other colors of empires, 2) it’s not the modern way to do things, it’s the old system, it’s just bigger than the others and likely to fail in a big way.
To me, the modern way is to recognize everyone as deserving of an education, which means they are deserving of health, and should be nurtured as such. Then each can find their way to contribute. It’s not purely altruistic as it also serves the greater good of finding as many ideas, innovations, and good old hard workers as we possibly can.
You tell ’em CC. This idea of whites creating the modern world is backwards. The modern world was created by realizing how messed up the ancient world was. In that one, empires rose and fell around the world, almost always playing out a story of believing they had some the superior notion of how to rule the world. If you look at the current dominant empire, you could be mistaken that it’s a white creation and that it’s the superiority of those whites that created it. You’d be missing two things, 1) they created it on the backs of all the other colors of empires, 2) it’s not the modern way to do things, it’s the old system, it’s just bigger than the others and likely to fail in a big way.It's tempting to believe we created the modern world to replace the old one but that doesn't seem to be the case. It's more likely that the characteristics of modernity developed by chance -- usually as the result of some terrible occurrence, e.g. historians think the black death may have done the most damage of all to the feudal system in Western Europe, and that helped open the doors for what we now call the middle class. Or some small, bizarre rule that had massive downstream effects -- like how the early church ban on cousin marriage probably gave rise to Liberal Democracy.
The idea of white privilege is a human concept with no basis in fact, except for what white people place on it. It also works to do damage, albeit psychologically in black minds. My ex-husband would send me whenever he felt it was to our advantage for me to go because I present as white in the minds of most humans. There is no basis for this, but white people created in order to have power over black people and other people of color. It is one of the worse concepts every created by humans. I could go on with my own family’s experience with racism, but the point is, “white privilege” is a really stupid and unfounded concept meant to control others.SAY WHAT? I'm surprised you don't know what "White Privilege" means. It's not a term Whites gave to themselves to express superiority as you seem to think.
What is white privilege? It’s the level of societal advantage that comes with being seen as the norm in America, automatically conferred irrespective of wealth, gender or other factors. It makes life smoother, but it’s something you would barely notice unless it were suddenly taken away — or unless it had never applied to you in the first place.