Immunity to Ethnic and Racial Diversity Many people have a very shallow view of racial and ethnic diversity. They see it as simply the belief that one race is superior to another. It is much more than that. It is a fundamental (and fundamentally wrong) view of human nature. Racism is the notion that one's race determines one's identity. It is the belief that one's convictions, values, ideology, and character are determined not by the …
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…ugly memory only when universities and schools teach it as a valid, existent concept of human nature, one based on the conviction that the individual's mind is eligible, that the human intellect is effectual, that we possess free will, that individuals are to be judged as individuals - and that deriving one's identity from one's race is corruption, a corruption appropriate to Nazi Germany, not to a universe based on freedom and independence. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**