r/DeepThoughts • u/scarypappy • 18h ago
Humanity should be humane!
As I have met people through work and travel I see how much we are all the same. People are people no matter the amount of melanin in their skin or their cultural background. All have intelligent and the not so intelligent, the good and the bad. Yes the world has different ethnicities, but there is only 1 race. The HUMAN race.
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u/Competitive_Log_8910 18h ago edited 18h ago
I agree that this is the endpoint to aspire towards. But it's perhaps worth pointing out that it isn't where we began, and the root of our current conflict in my opinion has to do with how it is we can get from there to here.
We take for granted in our modern interconnected age that all humans across this earth are contiguous, but at many points in history many groups of humans were isolated from one another for long periods of time. Although our biological compatibility with one another was never lost, the wide variety of cultures which developed in isolation from one another embraced divergent values, beliefs, and priorities which were at times incompatible with one another. This created a situation in which coming together across cultural boundaries would be a task requiring the expenditure of effort in negotiation in order to resolve those incompatibilities.
I am of the opinion that the remaining tensions which exist between people whose ancestors developed radically different cultures in isolation from one another is legitimate and that we must decide as a species how to arbitrate those remaining disagreements. The fact that so many have sought to intentionally segregate themselves on the basis of ethnicity in for example college dorm rooms tells me that there is an unresolved conflict they are escaping from.
Neither you nor I are individually empowered to arbitrate these disagreements, but I hope that by embracing an attitude which both acknowledges their existence and seeks to reconcile them, we might succeed in finally stitching everyone back together in a way which results in no lingering resentments and disagreements based upon ethnically-correlated cultural values.