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Postulate: All hurtful isms (racism, sexism, chauvinism, feminism, and homophicism, to name a few) are designed to reduce the size of the world one interacts with because the world as we know it is too large.
Corollaries:
- The idea that any place where you need legal identification to get through the day is too large (lack of intimate knowledge of neighbours, large world with a great deal of movement, both by the individual and in terms of the mechanism of movement (rail/autos vs. horses/feet)).
- The idea that any place you cannot get to know intimately in one year, including the population resident there, is too large.
- Nationalism. The idea of defining oneself differently from another group in order to achieve legal separation from that group. You may be required to include groups that are separate to achieve breakaway mass. Nationalism does not postulate a separate race for each nation (ie, Albanians exclusive of resident Romany (special case with purity laws to keep social group pure) are racially caucasian, though they may consider themselves racially Albanian).
- Ethnicity. The hydra of social/cultural anthropology.
Examples:
- The Nuer. Warfare progresses in stages depending on what threatens. Families may fight internally - unless someone outside the family threatens. Clans may fight - unless someone outside the tribe threatens. Unity in defence, disunity in peace.
- Pan-Islamic empire/Pan-Slavic empire. Racial definition for non-racial groups.
- Ethnic Japanese/Ainu.
Considerations:
- There is no such thing as race in the sense that most people use it. Examine difference between race-as-social-construct/race-as-factor-of-appearance and race-as-physiological-issue (ie, sickle cell anemia, certain jaw structures, that disease in Venezuela all have ramifications in terms of medical care - medicine is not able to be colour blind when colour implies issues that patient may be facing but should be colour blind in all other regards).
- Exclusion of ismed groups can be extreme (burqas) or minor (auto dealers). Corollary with degree of perceived threat?
...Goddamnit, I think this isn't an essay. I think I just laid out a doctoral thesis.
Fuck.
ETA: Holy crap.
Corollaries:
- The idea that any place where you need legal identification to get through the day is too large (lack of intimate knowledge of neighbours, large world with a great deal of movement, both by the individual and in terms of the mechanism of movement (rail/autos vs. horses/feet)).
- The idea that any place you cannot get to know intimately in one year, including the population resident there, is too large.
- Nationalism. The idea of defining oneself differently from another group in order to achieve legal separation from that group. You may be required to include groups that are separate to achieve breakaway mass. Nationalism does not postulate a separate race for each nation (ie, Albanians exclusive of resident Romany (special case with purity laws to keep social group pure) are racially caucasian, though they may consider themselves racially Albanian).
- Ethnicity. The hydra of social/cultural anthropology.
Examples:
- The Nuer. Warfare progresses in stages depending on what threatens. Families may fight internally - unless someone outside the family threatens. Clans may fight - unless someone outside the tribe threatens. Unity in defence, disunity in peace.
- Pan-Islamic empire/Pan-Slavic empire. Racial definition for non-racial groups.
- Ethnic Japanese/Ainu.
Considerations:
- There is no such thing as race in the sense that most people use it. Examine difference between race-as-social-construct/race-as-factor-of-appearance and race-as-physiological-issue (ie, sickle cell anemia, certain jaw structures, that disease in Venezuela all have ramifications in terms of medical care - medicine is not able to be colour blind when colour implies issues that patient may be facing but should be colour blind in all other regards).
- Exclusion of ismed groups can be extreme (burqas) or minor (auto dealers). Corollary with degree of perceived threat?
...Goddamnit, I think this isn't an essay. I think I just laid out a doctoral thesis.
Fuck.
ETA: Holy crap.
