Human nature. We’re hardwired to form tribal groups around perceived similarities, which necessarily entails excluding people who are different. Overcoming the negative results of this biological wiring is an eternal challenge for us.
Edit: downvoting me doesn’t make the truth go away. This is established science. Humans will form groups compulsively, over literally anything.
Why are we so seemingly obsessed with assigning thing into ethnic/race groups?
Human nature. We’re hardwired to form tribal groups around perceived similarities, which necessarily entails excluding people who are different. Overcoming the negative results of this biological wiring is an eternal challenge for us.
Edit: downvoting me doesn’t make the truth go away. This is established science. Humans will form groups compulsively, over literally anything.
https://youarenotsosmart.com/transcripts/transcript-tribal-psychology/
https://www.simplypsychology.org/social-identity-theory.html
Eat my shorts, honky
What’s the most offensive slur for a white person you can think of?
Honky and cracker are all that come to mind. And I find them funny rather than offensive because we’re so privileged it doesn’t feel like a threat.
I don’t like being reduced to a slave owner as my family arrived in this nation as indentured slaves.