Steve’s Barking; Is race and racism real or is it just a form of tribalism?

 This is a very hard post for me to write, for I’m going against all conventional wisdom!

 My observation is that the conventional wisdom on race is not strictly by the color of one’s skin but more on the tribe one comes from! Think of the Nazis calling the Jews and Slavs inferior races. Thing of the Japanese call person of Chinese descent inferior by reason of race. ( Think of Japan in the present day not letting foreigners settle in Japan even though they will need foreigners as the population gets older. As far as skin color look,to Europe, as one goes father south in Europe the general pigment of the skin tends to get darker. Take a look at Africa the pigment of the indigenous people of the is lighter then the indigenous people of the central parts of Africa. This also seems to be true of the southern part of Africa before the migration of Africans from the middle of Africa. ( The lightness of the Northern and Southern Africans seemed in most cases to predate the Europeans coming to Africa).Africans from different tribes come in all different sizes and shapes. One can look at the Asian continent and draw the same conclusions as the African continent. Even the faces are from one region to the next as this is also true in Europe. It has been noted that this maybe due to the fact of adaptability.

 **Now why would I say that racism is a form of tribalism?

 Human beings tend to form groups that are closely associated with themselves. So that facial features and and pigmentation that are closely aligned forms a tribe. To protect themselves from other tribes these tribes form bigger tribes. As these tribes become larger they become city states and eventually turn into countries. Now these countries often do terrible thing and in order to justify these things they use the physical differences by saying it’s alright these races (tribes) are inferior. Now one can say that the smaller tribes ( sub tribes ) of the main tribe starts believing that those who look different then there members are subhuman. This goes down to the individual members of the tribe. They don’t want to mix with those of what they consider an  inferior tribe( race ) and in many a case even force the larger  tribe to treat the different looking persons of the other tribes as inferior including denying work and a place to live near them. 

 Tribes tend to have different cultural background that co-mingle  when tribes come together.

***** This is just a theory of mine that I got through observation.