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Spin Zone / Re: More Racism
« on: March 23, 2024, 03:56:46 PM »It also makes an enormous amount of sense evolutionarily. When the humans species largely was evolving recently we lived in small tribes of 25-50 people. It conferred a survival advantage to regard people outside that group with suspicion and expect hostility.
I know you know that and I concur that the tendency to make that negative association is strong; it’s based on survival instinct. When you see dangerous behavior, you memorize the characteristics of the person (or animal or thing) so that you may avoid it in the future. It’s a natural adaptive response.
It is a real challenge to adapt these engrained behaviors to societies of up to a billion people.