Chapter XXI
1. The idea of races has been an interesting and mostly unpleasant detour for the Human Race.
2. It started much earlier, but the first recorded differentiation in the races appears in Mesopotamia about five and half thousand years ago.
3. And the first records of race differentiation in other parts of the world start to appear in the two thousand years after that.
4. In the cradle of civilization we see the rise and fall of the Sumerian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Akkadian, Phoenician and the Hittite.
5. And just around the corner on both sides, the Ancient Egyptian and Kush to the south west, and the many Greek cultures to the north west were developing.
6. In the area now known as Pakistan we see the rise of the Harrapas.
7. Further to the east we see the rise and fall of the Phung Nguyen, Dong Dau and Go Mun cultures.
8. To the north in China the Xia and Shang were the earliest races.
9. Across in the Americas the first we see of races are the Valdivians, Peruvians and Mayans.
10. These are the first examples we can see of the development of races throughout the world, but did we ever get carried away with it in the thousands of years that were to come.
11-16. Mention of over 200 different races from around the world since the age of the Sumerians.
17. It has been one of the goals of humans in a society to differentiate ourselves from our neighbours since the dawn of our civilizations, even when there was little or no difference in our outward appearance.
18. When we are from different parts of the world and we look at each other, do not suggest that we are the same, because the simple fact is that we are not.
19. Denying the differences does not lessen the racist view, it enhances it;
20. Because to deny the differences denies that which is obvious to all, and attempts to force the idea of tolerance of "non-existent" differences down the throat. In the same breath both denying and acknowledging the differences.
21. The different races of the world have different looks.
22. The different races of the world have different scents.
23. The different races of the world have different languages and accents.
24. The different races of the world have different pre-dispositions and experiences, but not always.
25. We must not say that we are all the same, because we are not.
26. We must get to a place where we are no longer using the word tolerance because this is not a word of peace or harmony.
27. We are all people, blood flows inside us, and blood is blood when it's on the outside.
28. Different, in of itself, never has been and never will be bad.
29. Our views must evolve to love difference, to love change, because there is a lot of it on the way.
30. We must look at a person's essence. Look at who they are, rather than where they come from.
31. If a person is someone we could like by their personality or views, then to use the vernacular, it shouldn't matter if they were pink with purple polkadots.