One of the last Sopranos episodes touched on this idea briefly, when some of the Italian kids beat the snot out of an African kid from Africa. “Come here, nigger,” they said. “I’m not a nigger,” he replied. Race is, sadly, for all intents and purposes, skin color, which has a correlation, though not exclusively, to hereditary origin in geographic locales.

Where do the differences in this definition of race stem from? Jared Diamond, an evolutionary biologist at UCLA makes the argument that the differences in race are nothing more than the reflections of thousands of years of sexual preference. In Asia, they liked yellow skin and slanty eyes, and in Europe they liked blonde hair and blue eyes.

Race in and of itself is simply unimportant. Race just happens to be a fairly accurate two-second indicator of culture, which is far more important in dealing with the (Huntington-esque) “clash of civilizations”.

(See? I can be a pretentious hippie fuck too)

One of the last Sopranos episodes touched on this idea briefly, when some of the Italian kids beat the snot out of an African kid from Africa. “Come here, nigger,” they said. “I’m not a nigger,” he replied. Race is, sadly, for all intents and purposes, skin color, which has a correlation, though not exclusively, to hereditary origin in geographic locales.

Where do the differences in this definition of race stem from? Jared Diamond, an evolutionary biologist at UCLA makes the argument that the differences in race are nothing more than the reflections of thousands of years of sexual preference. In Asia, they liked yellow skin and slanty eyes, and in Europe they liked blonde hair and blue eyes.

Race in and of itself is simply unimportant. Race just happens to be a fairly accurate two-second indicator of culture, which is far more important in dealing with the (Huntington-esque) “clash of civilizations”.

(See? I can be a pretentious hippie fuck too)

It’s true, in fact some poplations in Europe are considered Asiatic in origin. The Lapplanders of Scandinavia are believed to have come from Far East Siberia, the Hungarians can trace their origins partly to the Huns who came from Central Asia. Plus if you go anywhere in Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kirgystan you will see blondes or red-heads with East Asian eyes and bone structures. The Ainu “aborigines” of Japan also have mixed East Asian and Caucasian features although blondes are unknown. In fact I’ve read somewhere that the Caucasian race is believed by some scientists to be an Asiatic race by origin. Weird.

It’s true, in fact some poplations in Europe are considered Asiatic in origin. The Lapplanders of Scandinavia are believed to have come from Far East Siberia, the Hungarians can trace their origins partly to the Huns who came from Central Asia. Plus if you go anywhere in Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kirgystan you will see blondes or red-heads with East Asian eyes and bone structures. The Ainu “aborigines” of Japan also have mixed East Asian and Caucasian features although blondes are unknown. In fact I’ve read somewhere that the Caucasian race is believed by some scientists to be an Asiatic race by origin. Weird.