Okay, this probably looks more like a regular person's journal than some sort of academic thesis, and I do not know why my vernacular or colloquial side came out today, but here it is, so bask in my common usages of words, for this may not last long. On to a more interesting topic, and one of immense intrigue to me, in my Indian language course today, I learned that prejudice, discrimination, bad vibes, or what have you between peoples is not confined to WASPs toward everyone else. I have known this for a long time, and I know dislike of others is not confined from the majority to the minority and back again. In that course we learned about a battle between the Arapahoe in a village in Wyoming, and the Buffaloe soldiers with the US Army who fought against them. During the course of the battle the Army surprised the Arapahoe in their camp, and fleeing their village into the higher ground surrounding the valley leaving the army in their former place in the low ground, the Arapahoe gained the upper hand, and fought rigouresly against the primarily buffaloe soldiers (Black soldiers for those of you not familiar with the term)
They killed many of these buffalo soldiers and tried to scalp them, but because their hair was so short, they were unable to do this well, so they just clubbed their heads. Sounds pretty brutal to me, but what all this is leading to, is when being told today about this, many members of the Arapahoe Nation will laugh at the brutality and feel as bitterly about black people, or other Indian tribes, or whoever as they do about whites, or anyone really who is not Arapahoe. In these cultures, multi-cultural-ism is not at all a concern, and that very notion is more or less a thing of recent western influences. The idea that racism or prejudice and so forth are bad and unnatural, historically is preposterous. This is not to say that we should allow these qualities of prejudice to remain in our society, but we must look at other cultures and even our own in the past with less harsh eyes for doing so themselves, I just hate when we impose this modern hippy bull shit to seem like the only righteous natural view that can be taken in the world, because as can be demonstrated all over the planet, many cultures simply do not think in that way.
It is for reasons like this, that I do not reflect badly on people like the Nazis, or the slave owners of the South, or even the segregationists of forty years ago. This is not to say that I think they were the best people who lived, but I do not think it is my place to judge their view of the world by my own. I think that like all things eventually the best working and sustaining views of the world will live and kill the rest out, like all Darwinistic principles. I suppose though it is horrid to hear for our squeamish culture, I am very much a Darwinist in every sense and especially a Social Darwinist. I realise that it is not a pleasant thing, social darwinism, but I think it happens all the time, the same as the planets orbit the Sun, you may not want to believe it, but it happens all the same, and it is an entirely valid and good way to describe the actual state of the world. Well that is it for today's diatribe, I hope I did not offend anyone too badly.