Can we ever phase out prejudice and racism?

First off, I want to get something straight. When I refer to racism/prejudice I'm referring to a fundimental judgement made by a person that assumes that a nationalism/color of skin/ethnicity is different. It's something the brain does almost subconsciously. It comes from the intrinsic "us and them" and "the other" type mentality caused by ignorance, that usually subverts and surfaces in the form of racism and xenophobia.

That being said, do you think that humanity can ever learn to transcend prejudice, racist and xenophobic mentalities?

The problem is in the language: Red State vs Blue State, Iraqi vs American, White Voters vs Black Voters, Country A vs Country B, etc. This creates a subconscious fundimental association that the people are seperate and different.

Racism isn't even really the correct term for it today since race technically does not even exist. The general "popular" definition of racism today is more a prejudice or a xenophobic mentality. It perpetuates the "black and white America". We need to get rid of the word altogether and stick with prejudice.

The way I see it is that subliminal racist and xenophobic values in America have been passed down from the pre-WW2 generations onto the baby boomers and thereafter. It's further been ingrained in their minds during their most impressionable of childhood years, as many of them grew up during a post-"civil rights" era.

This is why often we hear many of the older generation talking of bringing American troops home but no care is given to the Iraqi troops, or even the British troops for that matter. As it was in the Korean and Vietnam War.

The Civil Rights movement, regardless of how positive it was, still reinforced the underlying "us and them" mentality when the focus turned to improving "black America". What about just improving America altogether?

I do have some hope that time will heal the deep wounds of prejudice and xenophobia. We have alot of factors holding us back, (the Media being a GIGANTIC one) but we also have science on our side which will prove to be the most useful tool of knowledge in the history of humanity. I think over time generations will slowly phase out the ignorance that plagues our subconscious.

 

I don't think you're ever going to be able to change the way everyone thinks... especially when racism is promoted everyday by the media with the whole "us vs. them" mentality. This is a tool called divide and conquer. They need to keep people divided, vs. united against their common enemy. So as long as people are composites of their own indoctrination and unable to think for themselves, racism will continue.

 

Thats funny since the mainstream media is controlled by P.C. Liberals and Hollywood. I wonder how that works?

 

Because political correctness is all about squashing free-thought and creating uniformity. That's why it's so heavily promoted by the media, which serves merely to instill the public with their authorized beliefs and values. The controllers of this system want a public that is predictable and does as it's told. So political correctness is not as it presents itself at face value. It has nothing to do with tolerance, because you cannot force tolerance on someone who isn't tolerant to begin with. So this forced tolerance only further fans the flames of racism. So-called political correctness is one of the biggest contributors to racism today, because it places such emphasis on the race issue, which makes people hypersensitive to the issue of race, thus creating even more of a divide between the races. This is used to get the people fighting amongst themselves instead of uniting against their common enemy, which is the state. I see people as humans, regardless of the color of their skin, while the PC bleeding heart types, much like the very racists they condemn, see everything in terms of race.

 

Bingo!

 

Sure, I think it's possible. If there is a global utopia then perhaps there would be no such thing as nationality, identity, a sense of ethnicity and culture and everyone would be speaking Esperanto with a universal religion of acceptance.

It's possible, but it's far from ideal.