"Racial" antipathies have some roots in ethnic origin, but they are also generated, perhaps predominately, by differences of acquired culture - of language, dress, habits, morals, or religion. There is no cure for such antipathies except a broadened education. A knowledge of history may teach us that civilization is a co-operative product, that nearly all peoples have contributed to it; it is our common heritage and debt...
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Culture isn't "real". (part 3)
From Will and Ariel Durant's, The Lessons of History, page 31.
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