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Can racism cause wars???
May 6, 2008 - 09:25 AM
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I've never seening a war that's caused by racism, but if by any chance anybody thinks that could happen or it already happend please post it as replies.
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Re: Can racism cause wars???
October 21, 2008 - 04:05 PM
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Racism can and has allteady caused wars even if in not so a large dimension like the 1. Worldwar but one example is the "little" wars between the coonisations states in africa during the imperialism in the 19th century and the indegenous people. The are some examples for insurcenies in this time. But there were nearly all dumpished. Of course that are not really wars but this are fights from the racists against the underdog people.
Generally I think the peopel treating by racism are a so smal group that you can´t talk from a war only from a rebellion.
I hope I could help you
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Re: Can racism cause wars???
October 23, 2008 - 04:00 AM
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Actually if you included wars incited by ethnic hatred into the broad category of racism; you can pretty tell from historical records that most fatal wars were caused by racism.
The Turkish genocide of Armenians in 1916-1917 was pretty much ethnic-incited.
Hitler's Arian supremacist ideology costed humanity more than 40 million dead during WW II.
The ethnic civil wars between the Hutu and Tutsi tribes in Rwanda and Burundi costed these poor nations between 1 and 2 million dead in 1995.
The Bosnian War (1991-1996), witnessed the heaviest fatalities in Europe since WW II, and was ignited by ethnic friction between Serbs, Croats, and Bosniaks.
Besdies, the whole black slavery trade was greatly enhanced by white supremacist ideas that were pretty inherent during the 1700s and 1800s.
Peace.
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Re: Can racism cause wars???
October 28, 2008 - 03:30 AM
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I believe that racism does not cause wars, but it fuels them. All the wars in the world can be traced to one thing - resources i.e - land, money, slaves, power, etc. Racism is just used as a cover.
if you stop and think for a moment, most racists/bigots hate other people because they have a certain warped opinion about those people and what they own/ do not own which = resources. it is really hard to find fault in the world if all your needs are being met -think about it.
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Re: Can racism cause wars???
October 28, 2008 - 10:52 AM
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Quite true Ute,
notice that racism also played a great role in fueling the colonial empires in the Victorian age to conquer less-developed countries under the flag of being a more developed race that would help the less developed races to be civilized. However, it is well understood that colonialism aimed in its essence at the monopoly of the world's natural and strategic wealth.
A literary piece reflecting race-superiority as a reason behind colonizing other nations is the White Man's Burden, by Rudyard Kipling
This post was edited on: 2008-10-28 at 10:53 AM by: aymanelhakea
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Re: Can racism cause wars???
December 17, 2008 - 11:53 AM
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Absolutely YES!!!!!
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Re: Can racism cause wars???
January 1, 2009 - 10:34 PM
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Definately yes, any kind of racism cause wars because people do not get understood and starting small discussions and separation start then a big war like among nations.
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YES
February 18, 2009 - 02:28 PM
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YES IT CAN AND HAS ALREADY CAUSED AND WOULD CONTINUE TO CAUSE WARS BECAUSE OF OUR IMPERFECT NATURE.
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Re: Can racism cause wars???
February 24, 2009 - 02:48 PM
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Yes, it has already caused a war, and a genocide, for example, the genocide in Rwanda.
The Hutu wanted to kill the Tutsis. If that wasn't a racism case, then I don't know.
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Re: Can racism cause wars???
April 9, 2009 - 07:43 PM
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I believe racism can spark wars.
As people have mentioned before, Rwanda is a good case of how racism can cause problems... many people were killed simply because they were the 'wrong race.'
When people of one race discriminate against another group of a different race, it creates social and even political turmoil.
For example, the island of Fiji has suffered from 4 coups within the last 20 years or so. In Fiji, there's a dispute between the ethnic Indians and the ethnic Fijians, and both groups want power. At one point, the constitution prevented the Indians from gaining seats in the government. They were removed from the Commonwealth and then readmitted when they amended the rules out of their constitution. Fiji suffered from another coup fairly recently, once again related to racism, against the ethnically Indian PM. The leader of the coup wanted to restore rights to ethnic Fijians. The tensions between the Fijians and the Indians have caused many problems for the government.
I think that racism is definitely a problem, but it would be difficult to combat it.
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