Basic Dimension
(404) Basic Models of Racism
Preface:
Racism is a natural process that arises from a sexual instinct of bipedal primates. It is clear that this process can derail in the long run. The longer it stagnates without converging into integration or assimilation, the more difficult it is to untangle its terrible sequential interactions.
BASIC MODELS OF RACISM
Basic models of racism in the evolution:
1: The Native-Immigrant Model (Mod 1:NI)
In the Native-Immigrant model different races or ethnicities compete for the same land. This model follows a mutual racist-racist model, called a sadist-sadist relationship.
The ultimate result of this armed peace might be the integration of groups.
- The evolutionary goal of racism is to manage conflict on an individual level to prevent intergroup civil wars:
- Assimilation is difficult but not impossible in the Native-Immigrant model (Mod 1:NI) and is dependent on the similarity between races or ethnicities.
- Through assimilation, one's own identity is integrated into the new combined identity, which can be unattractive for parties. Therefore, assimilation is more likely for individuals living among members of the other group than for populations as a whole. However, forced mixing at the individual level nearly always leads to severe racism and discrimination. And deliberate merging of whole races and ethnicities is disastrous, where crossbreeding can cause major identity problems. And the very prevention of the demise of tribal identity is exactly why 'racism' arose.
- Integration may eventually be possible between races and ethnicities in (Mod 1:NI).
Integration involves adherence to the laws of the country, but retaining one's own culture. Integration seems the highest attainable way of living together with fairly different races or ethnicities.
- Without integration, parallel societies will develop where segregation can become a breeding ground for racial unrest and ultimately civil war.
- The evolutionary goal of racism is to manage conflict on an individual level to prevent intergroup civil wars. This goal is already achieved with parallel societies if they are stable in nature.
2: The Master-Slave Model (Mod 2:MS)
Further, there are two sub-models of racism:
3: The Cultural Segregation Model (Mod 3:CS)
The Cultural Segregation model can be a combination of the Master-Slave model and the Native-Immigrant model after slaves became free. In this combined model slaves do not integrate into the master culture after liberation. Slave and Master remain functionally fixed in their former sado-masochistic relationship from (Mod 2:MS), which was expected to evolve into the general sadist-sadist mode of (Mod 1:NI). But it failed.
Another way of looking at it is that the former sado-masochistic relationship from (Mod 2:MS) has evolved in mutual symbiosis, as 'assimilation' into the Master culture of
(Mod 1:NI), in which case the situation removes to the Cultural Integration Model (Mod 4:CI). But without racial mingling this is a very unstable solution, just as (Mod 2:MS).
The only realistic possibility in the Cultural Integration Model (Mod 4:CI) is integration while preserving mutual racism at the individual level to avoid clashes between races or ethnicities.
But it is more likely that 3 racial or ethnic groups arise, which means that the mixed group has to fulfill a bridging function to integration. If not, parallel societies will still arise in the Cultural Segregation Model (Mod 3:CS).
4: The Cultural Integration Model (Mod 4:CI)
(Mod 4:CI) can be the follow up model of (Mod 1:NI), but not easily of (Mod 2:MS).
5: The Insincere Anti-Racism Model (Mod 5: IAR)
The Insincere Anti-Racism model is developed out of the former Cultural Segregation Model (Mod 3:CS), and nested in the general Native-Immigrant model (Mod 1:NI). In this model a more or less undefined political actor takes the lead while invoking systemic anti-racism as ideology and confirming former slaves in the injustice that has been done to them, and fair enough, but at the same time inciting the public into counter-racism through outright aggression against the former Master race or ethnicity. And that's at odds with the anti-racism of their core ideology. This is not a fruitful path to integration, if that was the intention. But then, what is their intention? That's the question.
Many times in the evolution tensions between races or ethnicities have been hijacked by political gangs that took advantage of a hopeless stalemate between parties by expulsion or massacre of one of the parties. So, it is not especially the Master-Slave model (Mod 2:MS), which is the victim of external powers, but any hopeless situation can seduce a third party to incite civil war.
Well, racism-racism is exactly where (Mod 1:NI) is for, so counter-racism is not bad in principle, but certainly by honestly informing the people that they will be provoked into the right direction of counter-racism under the heading of anti-racism. That would be ethical and sincere.
And it must be said (Mod 1:NI) is intended to achieve integration and better not to segregate. "Anti-racism" of pushing agencies thus abuses the functional fixedness of the former sado-masochistic relationship in (Mod 2:MS), which has since evolved into a sadist-sadist environment through the liberation of the slaves (Mod 1:NI).
Thus, anti-racism (Mod 5: IAR) interferes with the functional fixed racist-antiracist relationship nested in the racist-racist model (Mod 1:NI).
'Anti-racism' of (Mod 5: IAR) is therefore in parasitic symbiosis with the racist-racist model of (Mod 1:NI). The aim of this kind of anti-racism is to claim endless penance for the past and at the same time to aggressively demand more and more privileges without consideration. In effect, citizens are being held hostage by a misunderstood external source. It must be emphasized that there is of course also genuine anti-racism.
So, insincere anti-racism is initiated by an outside party with an interest in breaking the status quo, where natural integration is not obvious given the nature of parties to the conflict.
But as said before, Model (Mod 2:MS) could have found some sort of assimilation of the slave culture into the master culture. Then the real meaning of (Mod 5: IAR) would be to disrupt assimilation in (Mod 4:CI) and achieve segregation and ultimately civil war.
Resume: The insincerity is that the external party does not really pursue anti-racism but outright aggression and counter-racism. They only sell their message this way. And in principle counter-racism would be no problem in (Mod 1:NI) if former slaves understood the real intention. However, the intention looks to worsen the relationship from Cultural Segregation (Mod 3:CS) to (Mod 5: IAR) by pretending to aim at (Mod 4:CI). Another option is (Mod 5: IAR) could intend to disrupt assimilation in (Mod 4:CI) and achieve segregation and ultimately civil war. In any case, it is risky to drag a group into an adventure that the majority apparently does not aspire to.
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