M. Grégoire
@Bashabez5
I also get the feeling that the idea (incorrect, to be sure) that one race is superior to another is recent, dating from the time that Western technology made the European nations militarily dominant.
If you had sent King Richard I to the court of Emperor Gebre Mesqel, he would have found things foreign, but would he have the idea that as a white man, he was somehow more advanced?
M. Grégoire
@Bashabez5
For that matter, if you had asked Columbus whether Spain or China was richer and more advanced, wouldn't he have said China?
Looking at it a different way, a hundred and fifty years ago the English would have said the Irish were a different race, and that the superior English race was obviously mean to rule over their Celtic neighbours.
M. Grégoire
@Bashabez5
In human affairs, first we develop the capacity to commit some wrong, then we desire to commit it, then we find some reason to explain to ourselves why it was never even wrong.
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