Si un jour (je l'espère) nous sommes en contacts avec de multiples civilisations E.T. ... et qu'on découvre qu'il existe une "Université intergalactique" ... ça va être Fukushima dans la tête à Attal !

"Mais M., ce n'est pas une robe du culte de Cthulhu...ce sont mes tentacules !"

#SiFi #multiculture #humanité #racisme #xénophobie

You've probably heard the bogus idea, "children have to be taught to hate." Like other simplistic popular nostrums, this is not just wrong, but fractally, wildly wrong.

To understand why, takes some time to explain. A lot longer than making the positive case showing an image of white and black toddlers hugging.

Most of us would love to live in a world where we could just figure out who was "teaching kids to hate," and stop them from doing that. We'd love it if adults could accept each other just like those sweet kids.

But that's not how anything works. Human nature is entirely the product of evolution. Our minds evolved right along with our bodies. Yes, it's a blend of nature and nurture, but decisions about what we nurture, are also determined by our nature.

This isn't very intuitive, for a lot of people.

To understand why we get this so wrong, you have to go back to the concept of childhood innocence. Which is the idea that a new baby is born with a "blank slate," and that child's behaviors will be shaped by parents and society. This is only partially true.

Understanding the truth about human nature also requires challenging notions of free will. Certainly people have limited ability to make choices, but we find that across the population, people make a lot of the same choices. And that's not a coincidence. Evolution and culture reward making choices that are close to the center of the bell curve, and they punish outliers.

We are born with behavioral modules in our brain that have evolved over millions of years. One of them is to favor people who look and sound like our parents, and mistrust outsiders.

So to the extent that we grow up in a culturally segregated environment, where we only see people who look and sound like us, human beings are naturally racist.

Without getting too much into the weeds, the simple cure for racism and hate is raising kids in a multicultural environment. A mixed race family, in a multicultural society avoids the categorization of any particular color or language as the "outsider."

But you see the double bind?

People who mistrust outsiders don't want their kids to grow up accepting them. So as much as possible, parents in monocultures will try to prevent a multicultural environment from taking root.

This is a generational issue. And that's what makes it so tough to solve. But we'll never solve it at all, so long as we pretend that the default of a baby is to be accepting of other ethnicities and cultures.

It's not.

And this really has very little to do with love or hate. Which is why "love" is not the answer. Racism has everything to do with core-level human nature, exacerbated by entrenched power dynamics in society that must be defeated.

Folks, this is 101 stuff. Can we all please just learn it so we can get onto the advanced courses, and have some snowball's chance of solving racism?

#racism #humannature #multiculture

Highlights from Food Affair with Mark Wiens https://www.alojapan.com/736024/highlights-from-food-affair-with-mark-wiens/

Join @MarkWiens as he digs into the multicultural, food paradise that is Singapore and share his highlight dishes while filming for Food Affair with Mark Wiens! Be sure to catch the series on HBO Go and HBO Max! 📍: Samy’s Curry Restaurant 📍: Candlenut

#food #Fukuoka #Fukuokadestinations #Fukuokatour #fukuokatravel #Fukuokatrip #Fukuokavacation #hbo #local #MarkWiens #multiculture #Nonya #peranakan #Singapore #福岡

Paper and ink are substantial materials in eastern traditional painting. To transform this tradition, Chinese artist LiJin used them recreating the conception of eastern mythological roles like demen and western religious roles like Jesus and Santa Claus in one painting. The color is well balanced by dark and light, pieces of green and blue, majority warm white harmony tone, bright red deliver a stand out joy about Christmas. #merrychristmas #ChineseArt #contemporaryart #multiculture #artadvisor

Paper and ink are substantial materials in eastern traditional painting. To transform this tradition, Chinese artist LiJin used them recreating the conception of eastern mythological roles like demen and western religious roles like Jesus and Santa Claus in one painting. The color is well balanced by dark and light, pieces of green and blue, majority warm white harmony tone, bright red deliver a stand out joy about Christmas. #merrychristmas #ChineseArt #contemporaryart #multiculture #artadvisor

The Graceful #Saree (#Sari) which Identifies #Indian #Women (also that of #Bangladesh #Pakistan & #SriLanka too) is the World's Oldest Known Still Worn #WomenGarment

This 1st cent. AD Wall #Painting from the #Hindu #Buddhist & #Jain caves of #Ajanta and #Ellora in #Maharashtra (near #Mumbai #Bombay) of a 'Cross-legged Seated #Woman Wearing a Saree' is a World #UNESCO Site now.

#IndianCulture #IndianHistory #Art #Heritage #History #AncientIndia #India #Fashion #Paintings #MultiCulture #Garments

The Graceful #Saree (#Sari) which Identifies #Indian #Women (also that of #Bangladesh #Pakistan and #SriLanka too) is the World's Oldest Known Still Worn #WomenGarment

This 1st century #Painting from the #Hindu #Buddhist & #Jain caves of #Ajanta and #Ellora in #Maharashtra (near #Mumbai #Bombay) of a 'Cross-legged Seated #Woman Wearing a Saree' is a World #UNESCO Site now.

#IndianCulture #IndianHistory #Art #Heritage #History #AncientIndia #India #Fashion #Paintings #MultiCulture #Garments

#France - Different treatment if not buried in a coffin. #Muslims can be wrapped in a shroud. An update of the #legislation is needed.

"Under French #law, bodies found in coffins are not #archaeological artifacts. They are human remains and must be treated with respect."

#burials #multiculture #EqualProtectionUnderTheLaw #Islam

http://bit.ly/coffintreatment

#France - Different treatment if not buried in a coffin. #Muslims can be wrapped in a shroud. An update of the #legislation is needed.

"Under French #law, bodies found in coffins are not #archaeological artifacts. They are human remains and must be treated with respect."

#burials #multiculture #EqualProtectionUnderTheLaw #Islam

http://bit.ly/coffintreatment

Today is Christmas eve , #China state doesn’t allow us to celebrate this. It is more regressive than ever. I, nonetheless, will celebrate it anyway. Kindergartens in China are not allowed to call Christmas even, rather, they say #multiculture day (clever) :joy: I should buy my family a gift.

#Multiculture: Here's a Kurdish protest where a Turkish taxi driver is assaulted. Let's bring in more people who hold a grudge against one another. Great idea. #Amsterdam #diversity #migrants
https://youtu.be/6m3qIFovG5g