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Originally posted by johndoebob
Well define culture for me, what do you think will be lost beside the skin color I don't really care about?It's not like here are lots of ghettos like in the US were everybody keeps their own culture and doesn't adopt.It's not like that skin color defines the culture.
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I will answer your questions, but please answer mine as well. You can find them in the post right above yours.
Firstly, a "race" is just a particular genetical stock of a species. A genetical stock can be unique from the "average" genetical makeup of the species in many ways, so colors isn't the only difference. Racial differences in humans include mood, intelligence, creativity, bone structure, and a lot of other things. It's all about evolution, the adaption of a life-form to its environment over generations. In the case of humans, our races have had time to adapt in their new environments since we split up and changed directions, enough time to create radically dissimilar appearances and other unique genetical features. I know it is a sensitive issue, but it is all science and even common sense.
Secondly, culture can of course be so many different things. It is the way we live, our mode of survival, and the ways in which we entertain ourselves.
For both culture and race, I think deeply of our diversity. From an egoistical point of view, I know that I find the idea of visiting a place just to see the differences very fun. For example, I plan to one day visit Japan. I quite like both its people and culture. Another admittedly edoistic point of view tells that I am fond of my people and its accomplishments. I want to see what my people is capable of also in the feature.
But the most important point of diversity is a far, far larger one. It is the "aim" of nature to create as much diversity as possible in order to find successful new life-forms. Do you wonder how it is done? A species encounter some challenge or new liberties that allows it to grow seperate genetical stocks, or races. Then, after a while, these races become so different (adapted to their new environment) that they can no longer inter-breed even if they wanted to. Now nature has created two species out of one, and the cycle continue. Evolution isn't one-dimensional, and it isn't all about morhping one species into another one species. Nature is all about diversity. It is a beautiful artwork, and it is genius. And I value it.