Ego wrote: ↑Wed Aug 16, 2017 6:00 pm
Xenophobia is largely a learned response. Those with a diverse peer group when they are young become adults who do not subconsciously react negatively to those who are different. Those who grew up in a monoculture end up with the implicit bias that all the SJW types are screaming about.
that study seems to confirm exactly the way brute thinks racism (or any other type of xenophobia) works. it's merely adaptation.
in this sense, humans growing up in a monoculture aren't "inherently racist", they simply haven't experienced looking at black humans enough to get used to the idea.
this maybe even explains the old cliche that, to some humans, "all asian humans look alike". if a human had never seen an asian person before, certainly the distinctive visual differences would stand out, and this human would have to build new reference points for differentiating between different asian humans. the human had to learn how to distinguish other humans, period, as a child.
so if xenophobia is not a symptom of inherent moral inferiority, but merely a lack of exposure, doesn't that almost solve the entire thing? just like weak humans could lift weights, learn a foreign language, learn math, learn riding a bicycle.. it's merely an acquired skill.
it would mean that in the long term, xenophobia would destroy itself. all xenophobes who came into contact with their respective xenos would quickly lose their phobia due to exposure. the only way to stay a xenophobe would be to isolate in a monoculture, where there could be very little contact with the xeno, and therefore, likely, few problems.
this is pretty much how brute thinks it works, and the study doesn't surprise him at all.
what is annoying is that many on the left have a completely different understanding of xenophobia. they seem to treat it as the new original sin, just like zealous christians used to treat gays and butt sex. turns out, exposure gets rid of the xenophobia pretty quickly, and now all humans in the west are pretty much used to gays and butt sex.
but this weird moralizing and frothing at the mouth over other humans who simply lack exposure.. very counter productive. if brute saw many weak humans, would condemning them morally for their weakness really be the best way to get them to lift weights?