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**KanadaHye** · 11-13-2009, 05:04 PM

Re: China executes 9 Uighurs

Originally posted by Armanen View Post

That is only a recent phenomenon that so called cultured people are 'tolerant'. In Victorian times the cultured people were very much not tolerant and this included the non European 'cultured' peoples too.

There will always be uneducated people, even those that recieve a degree are not necessarily intelligent and educated people.

I don't think history can be divided into recent vs. past. Times were always changing like they are today and there were periods of peace and war. In between, there was always cultural exchanges. In a cultured and tolerant society, even the uneducated can be raised to be mannered and courteous.

**Armanen** · 11-13-2009, 06:31 PM

Re: China executes 9 Uighurs

Originally posted by KanadaHye View Post

I don't think history can be divided into recent vs. past. Times were always changing like they are today and there were periods of peace and war. In between, there was always cultural exchanges. In a cultured and tolerant society, even the uneducated can be raised to be mannered and courteous.

A lot of things shouldn't be divided or compartmentilized, nonetheless, they are because it makes it easier to analyze. What you just said isn't wrong but it doesn't really address the fact that education does not equal toleration or acceptance. Sure there is a correlation but it is not a causation, unless that is what you were saying in the first place...

**Pedro Xaramillo** · 11-14-2009, 01:44 AM

Re: China executes 9 Uighurs

If I wanted to analyze this from a Marxist perspective I could say it stared with private property and there after nations conquering others for control of their land (i.e Private Property) and that makes the conquerer view the destroyed nation as weak and therefore not worth the same amount as the conquerer.

In turn, the oppressed also blame all ills on the conquerer and therefore target them as a whole.

Racism in it's modern day form is medieval concept, you can see it starting to forge against Native Americans by Spain, Gypsies by the Germans, Irish by the English (Yes they were seen as a whole other race), Armenians by the Turks, etc.

All the above nations brutally conquered the others and then called the indigenous or down trodden people inferior