Most of the thinking people I know openly disdain racism while harboring some degree of it. Of course, this wasn’t always the case. For most of our history racism was as American (or French or Romanian or Australian or Japanese or Vietnamese or….) as (insert ethnic or nationalistic dessert here). Other people were inferior based solely on their color or place of birth. It’s obvious. God is on our side.
Guns, Germs and Steel shows how when racism is combined with resources, the result is imperialism.
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