I just came to another one of my realizations today.
The nations that have emphasized race and racial separation more are the more prosperous first world nations, while those that have traditionally de-emphasized race and racial separation (with such things as mixed-race marriages, to the most massive scales in Latin America) are the nations that are at the more blunt end of the economic stick.
I mean look at it: the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, apartheid-era South Africa (as far as the whites were concerned). all of these nations have white majorities and have a finely-tuned race consciousness, and look at their economies: better than most other nations.
yes, south africa had a black majority, but if they werent employed as unskilled mine labor, they were forced out of the country into those “homelands”, which were basically a cross between concentration-camps and indian reservations.
basically it was like the white-minority gov wanted to act like the blacks almost didnt exist in south africa. especially in front of the tourists from the US and UK.
Anyway, also, look at australia. If there’s no other nation that is stuck on race and ethnicity, its that country. Which is why, up until the 1960’s, they had a “White Australia” policy, where they only allowed immigrants from European nations to immigrate and attain citizenship in Australia. And its funny how they went to such great lengths to stem any immigration from Asia, India, or Africa. One of them was where they only tested the white immigrants for English language proficiency. But when it came to an immigrant from, say, China, not only did they have to have a “strong” and “legitimate” reason for immigrating to Australia (even if they were skilled workers or students), but even if he or she was proficient in English, they commonly went as far as testing him or her in another European language that they were sure that he or she didnt know a lick of- JUST to keep him or her from gaining even a chance at Australian citizenship. And i guess its because of that feature of their history, but even today racial sentiment is high as hell, especially concerning the aborigines.
I remember this documentary of the late Edward Koiki Mabo, the guy who single-handedly opened up so many doors for the Aborigine Australians by taking a case to the High Court of Australia that said that the land of Australia was not “terra nullius” (unsettled, unpeopled land), but aboriginal land that belonged first to the aborigines (the case was finally won only a few months after his own death in 1993). The day after they re-buried his body in Townsville, Queensland, with a brand-new tombstone, some shitbags came by in the middle of the night and defaced the tombstone (even finding time to take his face off of the tombstone and replace it with a bullet hole). the survving family was totally fucked up about it, so they had to rebury him for a 3rd time, this time in his Native Torres Islands off the coast of Northern Queensland. But see? Look at their economy. one of the best and most favored on the planet, and their standard of living is high like in the US.
And of course, on the other end, look at Argentina. Argentina, back during the colonial days, had imported large amounts of slaves from Africa, often times via Brazil. In fact, Africans made up about 30% of the entire population of Argentina at one point in the early 19th century. However, Argentina (especially Buenos Aires) didnt want these lowly slaves to be seen or heard, so they took such measures as sending as many Afro-Argentines to war against Paraguay at one time. And furthermore, they also brought in as many immigrants as possible from Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Greece, Portugal, Switzerland, even the UK, for the sake of flooding the place with whites. And combine that with the free-interrace mentality they have concerning Afro-Diasporians (oh, we have no concept of race! so lets go ahead and fuck each other!) and today, Afro-Argentines (and Afro-Chileans) are basically non-existant as far as numbers are concerned.
Same thing was tried in brazil, but not to that far an extent as Argentina and Chile. why? Im sure it would be impossible to “white-out” (called “blanqueamento”) the population of the nation that imported the largest amount of slaves of any nation of the Americas. And either way, all three nations have some sorry economies, chile’s being better than the other two. And strangely, Chile didnt import alot of slaves, but prolly a few token slaves from Argentina, Peru, Ecuador, or Brazil.
So now I wonder about the United States: if this is the pattern that has been naturally, yet misunderstandably, established within the last 502 years of the official beginning of the TransAtlantic slave Trade, then if the US turns from race-conscious to race-ignorant as a whole, then maybe its economy will fall down to the levels of Brazil and Argentina?
Its confusing, I know….
