{"id":55932,"date":"2014-07-16T13:57:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T21:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=55932"},"modified":"2014-07-16T14:01:51","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T22:01:51","slug":"fearing-the-different-and-strange-is-healthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=55932","title":{"rendered":"Fearing The Different And Strange Is Healthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all prefer people who are genetically close to us and we all are uncomfortable and stressed at dealing with people who are genetically different from us. The more a community is racially homogenous, the <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.american.com\/archive\/2009\/august\/dealing-with-diversity-the-smart-way\">more social capital<\/a>, and the more racially diverse it is, such as Los Angeles, the less people cooperate. Preferring your own kind is healthy and so is fear of the stranger. Whites talk about the joys of diversity but in their choices of where they live, work, socialize and worship, whites, just like every racial group, prefer to stick to their own kind, and the more they are forced to be with different races, the more unhappy and stressed they get.<\/p>\n<p>Ergo, I don&#8217;t think this smoking hot French politician Anne-Sophe should get <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/jul\/16\/french-national-front-politician-sentenced-to-jail-monkey-slur-christiane-taubira\">nine months in jail<\/a> for calling another politician an ape. It&#8217;s not right when hot babes are punished for derogatory things they say about the ugly. <\/p>\n<p>I wonder how much jail time I would get in France for my blog? As long as I can share a cell with Anne-Sophie, I don&#8217;t care how long I get.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AJWNE83j__k\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When Israel is accused in the UK parliament of war crimes, I think of it as a perverse compliment. A rational and human reaction to a tiny high-achieving people is to try to tear them down. Nobody berates the Arabs for being savage because nobody expects much from them. Once you understand that this tiny people, the Jews, have had more influence on history and probably more influence on the now than any other people, it stops being mind-blowing and becomes completely predictable and understandable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all prefer people who are genetically close to us and we all are uncomfortable and stressed at dealing with people who are genetically different from us. 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