Quote: | Originally Posted by Paulus WE are all members of the same race - Homo sapiens sapiens. Apparently the second sapiens distiguishes us, real modern humans, from less successfull branches of our ancestory. Since evolving as a single discrete species H sapiens began an explosive expansion in population as it spread arround the world. The distinct regional features which we use to define modern "race" are only a few tens of thousands of years old. So it isn't even "race" that divides us. It is something much less physical.
Something which transcends all our ancestoral roots is tribal instinct. It is ingrained in our biological make-up by millions of years of evolution. It can be traced to a time when we were er... dogs 
Tribalism is an instinct which to a degree is hard wired into our brains. Maybe we will eventually evolve to a less tribal creature, maybe we won't.
Some of the driving force behind tribalism is defence of resources and also some fear. Maybe modern society has the will and the ways to overcome this very strong instinct. Until we do we can only accept who we are and work with it the best we can.
No ammount of political fiddling and fannying will change that.
We have in reality moved on very little from our monkey ancestors. But give it time.... | Pheww Very profound, dont forget Sparkies are only Joiners without brains  .
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