Reply #37: Americans are very odd when it comes to race and the idea of [View All]

[Igel]

diversity.

Once was talking to a guy who had visited Sweden. He said he got a chill when he got on the bus there, and saw the bus was full of all white, mostly blond, people looking at him. "Like a Nazi dream come true," he said, absolutely no diversity--so something had to be wrong. He was blue-eyed, light brown hair himself.

I asked him how he'd feel getting on a bus in Cameroon: The bus would be full of all 'black' skinned, black haired people looking at him. "That would be beautiful." Then he said something silly about 'all that diversity', 'indigenous cultures', etc.

I asked what the difference was? After all, Bantu are as indigenous as you get in Cameroon, and Swedes as indigenous as you get in Sweden, both areas originally homogeneously one 'race' back to the Stone Age. Neither bus would have a speck of diversity in it.

He hadn't a clue what my question was about. He wandered back into his film archive to research some incredibly progressive topic.