Race

[mkemse]

It is absurb to attempt to ignore issues of race by trying to ignore our differences.

Did not we as human beings adapt to the different enviroments on our planet in such a way that large divisons of us were seperated from one another for long enough time period to develope different dominant genitic traits??

Eskimos dont withstand the cold better then aboringines??

Tebitians and Andeans dont thrive in the higher altitudes better than people from Sri Lanka or Hawai?

That certian genitic based disease proccessess dont threaten some segments of the population more than others and that those divisions fall along those lines (in many cases) along the same lines as those divisons politically identified with the term "race"?

I wonder why in the medical community we are tuaght to diagnose using such identifying traits in taking patient histories then, if they are not factors. Humm, mabey all that time I spent as a nurse was just a racist indoctronation program.

We are in fact all a little different from one another, with a multitude of various ways of identifing and distinguishing ourselfs as both individuals and as groups, some divisions based on genitics that produce certian traits and others based on actions/ beliefs.

To ignore that is to ignore a primary component of what being human is all about.

Diversity and survival as a species go hand in hand.

Discrimination happens, it sucks, but it is there, and I believe belays the more animal side of human nature to fear and or try and destroy that which it doesnt understand or precieves (if even incorectly as a threat). A basic evolutionary survival instinct.

But what really seperates us from most animals is that we are capable of establishing relationships with those things (people and animals) that are different from us despite any primal fears.

Acceptance of one another despite our differences is for me what really should define us as human beings.

Nicely put and said