Which Came First,

[ckBejug]

Wouldn't that be "cavist"?

You know what I meant by 'cave', right?

[thedebutante]

Every time I look at the title of this thread I am tempted to answer that the chicken came first.

Haha, I know! That was the point.

[nunechka]

a race is not genetic... it is a cognitive creation by us... many scientists have found that there are no "races" per se, but rather cultures/tribes/groups, etc...

[Anonymouse]

a race is not genetic... it is a cognitive creation by us... many scientists have found that there are no "races" per se, but rather cultures/tribes/groups, etc...

That is untrue. It is as genetic as anything else, otherwise we wouldn't see the differences that we do. What isn't a "cognitive creation" might I add? Since we perceive reality through the mind everything is ipso facto a "social construct" so this argument doesn't fly.

[nunechka]

ummm, so an armenian person with blue eyes is from a different RACE versus an armenian person with brown eyes???

[nunechka]

and yes anony nice UNICORN! :P

[loseyourname]

There's def. a real question here. But you may choose not to see it. Look at racism and prejudice under two different lights.

It depends on what you are really asking. Are you asking if a society must first be racist before it practices slavery? The answer to that is an obvious no, because people can be enslaved for reasons that have nothing to do with their race. Or are you asking if racism existed, anywhere in any form, before slavery did? If that is the question, it cannot be answered. We don't have records that go back far enough. Who's to say whether or not stone-age men were racist, or whether or not they enslaved each other?