At 9:35 pm -0400 31/8/00, Nik Taylor wrote:
>Raymond Brown wrote:
>> e.g. even Japanese got classified as Aryan!
>
>If I didn't know better, I'd've thought that was a joke! That is truly
>bizarre. Did they classify them that way to justify their alliance with
>them?
Presumably so.
And Apartheid South Africa saw fit to classify the Japanese as "honorary
whites" for purely commercial reasons - money talks.
>> If the results of racism were not so dire, one would find all this
>> stupidity amusing.
>
>My sentiments exactly. Perhaps in a few centuries people will be able
>to see it that way.
Sooner - I hope.
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At 10:04 pm -0400 31/8/00, Jonathan Chang wrote:
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> TODAY MANY "RACES", TOMORROW ONE RACE!!
As far as I'm concerned there already has been only one race for millennia
- it's called 'human'.
Ray.
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A mind which thinks at its own expense
will always interfere with language.
[J.G. Hamann 1760]
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