Livet | Distant Relatives |
| Skrivet av Derya Aktas |
| 2010-09-23 23:32 |
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Have you ever asked yourself why racism exists?
The correct definition for what racism means is racial discrimination, which ultimately means that the belief in itself is that there are genetic factors which establish race as a primary determinant of human capacities and attributes. Racism is also the belief that there is a higher rank for a particular race where it is extraordinary unlike the other races. This is basically how racial differences begin and essentially why racism exists.Let me start off taking Hitler’s attempt and almost succession anti-Semitism. He basically wanted to extinguish all Jews, and he sadly and horrifically managed to with a great majority. Let me just explain who and what the Jewish are for people. The Jewish are an ethno-religious group and it says that they originate from the Israelites or Hebrews, and ultimately stem from the Ancient near East. The Ancient near East conclude of modern Iraq, northeastern Syria, ancient Egypt, ancient Iran, Armenia, Anatolia,, Turkey, Mesopotamia and a lot more countries within that diameter. The ancient near East is also referred to as the cradle of civilization, but to be more specific, Mesopotamia is allegedly the region where the first civilization started. Mesopotamia included Sumer and the Akkadian, Babylonian and Assyrian empires, and it is from these empires, civilization has grown to where it is in the present. It is in Mesopotamia where the foundation for the fields of astronomy, mathematics along with agriculture were founded, the first writing system, the first governments, laws and empires started and it is also where the introduction of slavery was noticeable. Man has created new empires and civilizations throughout history and by evolving in knowledge and by mistakes, man learned. It is also through numerous amounts of natural catastrophes and the movement of the tectonic plates that we’ve ended up with five continents and uncountable amounts of islands, habituated by humans with different ethnicities and backgrounds. The humans were all initially from the first Man, Adam, who was born in Africa. Doesn’t this mean that we are all one big happy family? Think about it. That’s what I did, when I recently went to a concert by Damien Marley featuring NAS here in Stockholm. Their new album, Distant Relatives point out different properties in mankind, but bottom line is that the whole album summarizes humans as distant relatives. But from where did the racism start?
There has been a myriad of theories and conclusions. But I believe racism is traced back to the creation of mankind and all the way back to the cradle of civilization in Sumer. There is evidence that earlier definitions of racism involved the humans being divided into separate races. Some anthropologists, sociologists and biologists refuse this taxonomy in favor to specific empirical criteria like ethnicity, geography, habitation and history of endogamy. The Annunaki
According to Sitchin the extra-terrestrials enslaved the working man and in turn and we did it to each other. Sitchin poses possibilities as to why there is racism and worshipping of religions, that slavery is not a man-made idea and that this has been instilled in us since the beginning of mankind. Sitchin’s theories go against everything you’ve been taught in school about Darwinian evolution and new scientific discoveries continue to corroborate findings first suggested in Zecharia Sitchin’s books. He has done such a thorough research that when you contemplate about the ancient myths in comparison to the Old Testament, they are all connected. His scientifically researched theories are based on a myriad of scholars’ excursions and the decipherment of clay tablets that have been found together with the connections found when he did a comparison between the Sumerian clay tablets and the Old Testament. Racism started with a separation of two kinds, “us” and “them”
There are different theories on enslavement and racism, but I thought I’d enlighten you on different views. One theory is from Marx himself; he defines the racial and national divisions as the “secret” of capitalist power over the working class and explicitly compared the white and black workers in the United States. He thought that the key to political leadership of the working class is to educate workers to recognize the necessity of anti-racism caused by capitalism. Like most theories about racism the same conclusion is made. That racism started with a separation of two kinds, “us” and “them”. Hitler preached racism during his anti-Semitism saying that there are others whom are not worthy the same rights as others based on their ethnicity and background. Marx believed that racism was caused by class differences in society caused by capitalism and preached emancipation from a capitalistic society. He claims that class differences creates an “us” being the capitalist and “them” being the proletarians and wanted to establish a socialist society where mankind is economically equal, which is what the communistic ideology is all about. In terms of this everybody would be happy and prosperous. Last not but not least we have Sitchin’s theory about the extra terrestrials’ enslavement of mankind. His theory, unlike any other theory goes back to the core of where it all started. You may or may not believe in his theories, but this article was meant to spread light on another way of thinking which very well might be true. Once you get older you may understand that there’s more to what you learnt in school. Derya Aktas Bibliography
 Derya Aktas is born 1989 in Stockholm, Sweden. She has since early age been very interested in writing and been in touch of her creative side. She paints and draws sporadically in her free time. Creativeness feeds her soul and is what inspires her with everything she does. She has also studied in English since pre-school and is why she preferably tends to write in English even though she knows Swedish perfectly fine. She is also very interested in different cultures and ethnicities. |
