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In a multicultural Western country is it fair to say?

There's only one race that forms a nation but varietion in shades?

I don't really see much difference between me and other British born and raised people here in the uk, living in London.
Especially when you're 3rd or 4th generation of diaspora...
But that could just be me personally...

My colouring yes... But culturally no!

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CountScrofula · 41-45, M

Race is made up right. We didn't think about race until until the 17th century or so, the notion that all people of one race or another have some common intrinsic value.

So yeah we should get past it into something new and better. It's very hard to change social thinking though but the first rule is treat people how they want to be treated. Be kind. All that.

bijouxbroussard · F

@CountScrofula Folks were thinking about race long before the 17th century.

CountScrofula · 41-45, M

@bijouxbroussard If you track philosophical and political texts throughout written history, the notion of "race" as we think about it doesn't show up before the slave trade though. There's a ton written about how it was basically invented to justify racial slavery. Most people just thought about "us" and "not us", which is also how enslavement worked.

Obviously some concepts of race existed but just nothing like what we have today.