"Racism" is a word kicked around a lot, (click title to entry - thank you) that has expanded to mean just about anything that supports the preservation of a cultural identity at the exclusion of homogenizing it with another, some cultures more susceptible to branding than others. And everything demonized as "racist" has become synonymous with extreme evil, nazis, KKK, etc, which are totally inaccurate associations for the vast part. But at its very essence; at its very core, what most of Western society has now deemed "racist", is really just an extended instinct of self-preservation. Does not the self-preservation instinct extend beyond the proper functioning of ones own physical body into more abstract things like culture and society, making it only natural for a people to want to maintain their unique cultural identity as an extension of themselves?...
...The instinct to continue the culture in which you are part of is NOT synonymous with hate, is NOT mutually inclusive with lusting for the genocide of other cultures, and is NOT a wicked, vile thing that must be bred and brainwashed out of humanity as TPTB are, IMO, actively attempting, especially through the education system with younger people (see California for prime examples in principle). By creating a cultureless people with no history and no identity (or only an identity defined solely by TPTB), humanity is easily divided and broken in spirit. Peoples derive great power from their cultures; a cultureless people are easily fractured and conquered. Culture invisibly binds a people together, and allows them to be part of something greater than themselves; individuals, yet still part of the whole. Both culture and individual are contained within each other....
The Killing Fields of Post-Apartheid South Africa (click here)
JOHANNESBURG WORLD’S TOP MURDER CAPITOL
AUGUST 30, 2001 — The city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands — with 5,6 murders per 100,000 population — has been declared the “murder capitol of Europe”, it was reported here today. Johannesburg, with 61.2 murders per 100,00 population in the year 2000, remains the world’s murder city for the fourth year running, however.
SA POLICE Crime Statistics from 1994: http://www.saps.org.za/8_crimeinfo/bulletin/942000/murder.htm
...The instinct to continue the culture in which you are part of is NOT synonymous with hate, is NOT mutually inclusive with lusting for the genocide of other cultures, and is NOT a wicked, vile thing that must be bred and brainwashed out of humanity as TPTB are, IMO, actively attempting, especially through the education system with younger people (see California for prime examples in principle). By creating a cultureless people with no history and no identity (or only an identity defined solely by TPTB), humanity is easily divided and broken in spirit. Peoples derive great power from their cultures; a cultureless people are easily fractured and conquered. Culture invisibly binds a people together, and allows them to be part of something greater than themselves; individuals, yet still part of the whole. Both culture and individual are contained within each other....
The Killing Fields of Post-Apartheid South Africa (click here)
JOHANNESBURG WORLD’S TOP MURDER CAPITOL
AUGUST 30, 2001 — The city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands — with 5,6 murders per 100,000 population — has been declared the “murder capitol of Europe”, it was reported here today. Johannesburg, with 61.2 murders per 100,00 population in the year 2000, remains the world’s murder city for the fourth year running, however.
SA POLICE Crime Statistics from 1994: http://www.saps.org.za/8_crimeinfo/bulletin/942000/murder.htm