They treat each other as if they were different races.
But it's still not racism per se, though it is similar to racism.
They treat each other as if they were different races.
But it's still not racism per se, though it is similar to racism.
Kurds, Yazidis are the main internal groups. You also have their neighbors, migrant labor pools like Indonesians and Pakistanis, Africans due to the classic Arab racial hierarchy, and (in some places) Caucasians as well. I wanted to work in Mosul, but a friend of mine said the only way I could do that and live is if I got a lot of backing from a local big shot, and even then it'd be a bit iffy.Whom are Iraqis racist towards? Kurds?
People forgetting that 99% of our RECORDED history was basically WH40K between humans.
Whenever people who had writing encountered tribal groups those groups regularly engaged in war. However, they were usually about as bad at it as the local gang of kids that hang out on the corner. The more hunter-gatherer the worse they were. There is footage of a 'war' in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, it's embarrassing, no coordination and nobody want's to get hurt. But it's still an active conflict with real stakes for the combatants. Then, when people start to get more pastoral or agrarian, start gettting better weapons, then they get more violent, but also tend to have fewer wars than the tribal would have.I'd argue that's incorrect. It seems like our history is extremely bloody because you read histories that summarizes massacres and wars one after another, but these events are are localized to certain areas, not the entire world, and there are long times of peace in between them that the histories do not touch upon.
Those are religions, not races.
I'd argue that's incorrect. It seems like our history is extremely bloody because you read histories that summarizes massacres and wars one after another, but these events are are localized to certain areas, not the entire world, and there are long times of peace in between them that the histories do not touch upon.
Whenever people who had writing encountered tribal groups those groups regularly engaged in war. However, they were usually about as bad at it as the local gang of kids that hang out on the corner. The more hunter-gatherer the worse they were. There is footage of a 'war' in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, it's embarrassing, no coordination and nobody want's to get hurt. But it's still an active conflict with real stakes for the combatants. Then, when people start to get more pastoral or agrarian, start gettting better weapons, then they get more violent, but also tend to have fewer wars than the tribal would have.
When the smug Gaulish chieftain told the Romans "vae victis" in response to their complaint about how heavy a tribute he was exacting from them.... well, those ancient Romans were getting off very lightly compared to what happened to a good many conquered peoples in the ancient world, or compared to how their own descendants would treat peoples they defeated.
Contraversial takes, huh.
Being a Colony was generally better than what they had before.
African slaves were captured by Africans, and traded by arabs, long before they were anywhere near a white.
When Rome fell, that's because it had degenerated so far, the barbarians were better than their own leaders.
The British Empire, birthplace of the Industrial Revolution and much of modern medicine, bringer of parliaments and common law to distant corners of the globe, and master of BTFOing the French, was the greatest in history.
Seriously, we invented the bloody steam engine and had a prominent role in the discovery of germ theory. The world owes us for that and we have a lot to be proud of.
you guys also destroyed slavery as an insitution.
Yes, there was a time when the white ensign of our mighty Royal Navy was the most feared sight for any slave ship. To add to that, the British Empire also destroyed itself to defeat Nazi Germany, one of the most horrific regimes in history.
We done good.
and a prominent role in the discovery of germ theory.
What prominent role, pray tell? The key figures in germ theory were Pasteur and Koch.
For all of its faults Russia was better off under the Czar then under communism, mostly because communism was that shit.
What prominent role, pray tell? The key figures in germ theory were Pasteur and Koch.
you guys also destroyed slavery as an insitution.
Kurds, Yazidis are the main internal groups. You also have their neighbors, migrant labor pools like Indonesians and Pakistanis, Africans due to the classic Arab racial hierarchy, and (in some places) Caucasians as well. I wanted to work in Mosul, but a friend of mine said the only way I could do that and live is if I got a lot of backing from a local big shot, and even then it'd be a bit iffy.