If you look at how the USA has progressed, the south is STILL stuck in certain trends that affect current day society. It’s why they’re the bible belt, but states like Arizona and California aren’t reffered to as “the south”.
Geographically it makes no sense. California, Arizona, New Mexico, they’re all geographically south, but that’s not what that means.
And racism in the south is just so much more amplified than it is in other states. When you think about it, the 1860s are not THAT long ago in terms of societies.
I think we’re still being affected by actions from those times. A family experiences hardship. So they raise their kid to not trust those that caused it. And that kid grows up and does the same. Without a break in the chain, it just perpetuates more of the same.
So we’re only about 8 generations removed from that time. It’s really not that much. And OBVIOUSLY slavery is going to cause racism.
But what if the slaves were left on Africa, and the plantation owners just had automated drones that did all the work?
What would racism today look like?
Skin is just a lazy way of seeing “the other”. If we all, worldwide, collectively fucked our way to a uniform pigment, we would just find another way to define “the other”.
Yep, even happened in the US with Italians and such.
Easy to see in EU, Slavic people are seen as less than, even though we’re as white as everyone else around and in the particular case of my country, we have more Germanic genes than Slavic, but hey, prejudices don’t need to make sense.
Racism might unfortunately be natural and an evolutionary advantage, since mistrusting other tribes could save your life, therefore passing on this trait when reproducing. Everyone is prejudiced to some degree, even if they claim they aren’t.
I’m biased against Arch Linux users 👀
