My blind optimism have been right so far.
Don't you understand that people allways will be more engaged in helping their own kind than other, more distant people with whom they feel no kinship. That's why the west is helping Ukraine but not Yemen.
If you think people are color blind when it comes to people they feel kinship with, then you are the blind one.
Sorry, your casual racism made me throw up in my mouth just a little..
I feel absolutely no kinship with your pale skin, albeit my skin is on the pale side as well, but i do feel quite a lot of kinship with some people I know whose skin might be darker than mine.
Gosh, talking about slight skin color deviations in the 21st century as a basis of kinship? Wow.
In US most (or a large part) of the population have various degrees of chocolate-ness: from milk to dark.
That just means that you are the exception to the rule.
But if you have another explanation, please do tell.
Then i'm an exception as well, i guess. I can follow your arguments, and i may add another aspect to "being different" (or thinking different?):
Boundaries (aka. borders).
Regardless if culture, language, religion, water, rock and more, these are boundaries, extremely hard to cross for "normal" people, people who feel safe not standing out of a crowd, imho also the main implicit reason for competition. If you have to live on the same frequency to define yourself as a member of your "group", you can only differ from your environment by changing amplitude. Better, faster, stronger stuff. But as a free individual, one can "tune out" and adapt frequency as he/she wishes to, leading to a kind of inter-cultural, borderless consciousness to totally omit the competitive realm.
I think that's more like what Biodom was about in his comment, which he could have placed in a less offensive way for better understanding.
Oh, and prejudice... Another example of a main virtual, social border.
EDIT: I remember reading in a well known psychology magazine, that people in groups (and couples, exclusively) are bound stronger to each oher by sharing dislikings than by common likings, which was used to explain that groups fueled by hate (like racists) are stronger than their ideologic counterparts. Some "woke" communities may be a good example of such a psychologic-structural weaker pendant, which will tend to split/break up sooner. So "closed" communities will be dominant, until humanity steps up to the next level of social evolution, where humans overcome primitive fear, uncertainty and doubt (and thus hate, jealousy and insecurity). This could take another hundreds to thousands, even tenthousands of years, if our species survives up until this point of spiritual development. The "woke" are expecting this shift to be just around the corner (or in the middle of happening), while i try to be more realistic in this regards
EDIT2: This, or we self-destruct like the ancient high cultures, Maya, Aztecs to name a few well known examples.
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