- Racial Generalizations and Twisted Logic
It is impossible to explain anything or even describe anything without resorting to some sort of generalizations. Say, you come up with a phrase like this: “Antarctica is cold.” This statement is a generalization. People can tell you not all of Antarctica is cold and at times is warm. Someone who lives there will say something in like “it is not too cold for me.”
It is not too cold for a penguin, either. They live OK there and do not complain. However, if you say that average temperatures in Antarctica are lower than average temperatures in 90% of the world, which makes it quite cold for most people, then you will hit the nail on the head. Few people could argue with your statement.
When talking about this or that country, if we overly generalize, we will get these responses:
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In many so called developing (read: underdeveloped and hopelessly corrupt) countries the police can be most unhelpful, lazy, dishonest and hostile. In tourist areas they sometimes have Tourist Police which was established with the sole purpose of protecting temporary visitors from being ripped off, swindled or assaulted.
These, while not very efficient, are much better than the regular police force as well as the whole judicial system there. To many of the local cops, a foreigner is either a nuisance or a cash cow and they are rarely, if ever, on your side. Unless, of course, you are a big shot exec or a high-ranking diplomat. Not if you are a Joe Expat living on a $1200 a month pension in a tropical “paradise”.
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In the guilt ridden West there is now a movement supported by leading scientists that claims that race does not exist. All people, they say, belong to human race and then they show DNA tests that some human groupings that look alike have less in common in their DNA’s than people who look different. Some of my British friends, who are now reeling under the weight of colonial remorse, come up with all kinds of liberal theories that claim that people simply have cultural mannerisms and clothes but if we remove those, some 50% would look very much alike.
However, living as an international traveler or a PT makes you highly aware of at least the visual aspect of race and convinces you time and time again that it is a very real thing.
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