The main goals of top-down racism




One of the main goals of racism is not just simply to marginalise a particular race, but to manage and narrow their aspirations. Once that is accomplished, racism isn't felt. The victim will simply cease to aspire to that which has earlier been determined to be the privilige of another.  Thereafter, a chinese-style 'harmony' is brought about where everyone 'gets along' knowing and accepting and not aspiring beyond their 'rightful place' in society.  That is one of the underlying values of Confucianism for instance.

Another significant aim of racism is to turn the privileged race against the idea of difference in itself. By getting them to go against their own natural human instinct and ignore difference in culture and race has the effect of disabling their generic ability to appreciate difference itself, and reality from different angles. That in itself will render them more receptive to the one-sided mass-underdevelopmental vision of any fascist, racist and inhuman party.

IN this sense, whilst fascist and racist parties, be they the Nazis, to the British Union of Fascists, or even singapore's People's Action Party, purport to support or 'prefer' a particular race, the long term effect of such favouritism actually serves to dumb down and subdue the favoured race itself.  And what is finally achieved is the underdevelopment of all for the sake instituting  a new materialistic, apathetic, inhuman brand of 'progress' and human nature.

Chinese society is most appropriate for this study as it is the longest-standing and surviving fascist state going back to the times of Shih Huang Ti in 220 b.c.
A study of the chinese in s.e.asia, and their histories reveals how this has been achieved in the course of 2000 years, and what sorts of social political phenomena we have to avoid in order to not be susceptible to fascist and racist impulses, and more regretably, think it the only way of life. 


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