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by CaptainHarley adores his life penguin on September 17th, 2008
People like to place things in stark, mutually exclusive categories so they can deal with them more easily. It's a survival characteristic. Being able to quickly categorize an animal as "Predator" can help prevent problems. : ))
It's only when we apply that same tendendy to categorize to ourselves that we run into difficulties. We tend to make two categories ( at least ): "Like us" and "not like us," with subcategories like "White" and "Black," which are a lot easier to manage than twenty different shades of color. : )
Are there more black catholics than other black christians?
by Answerbag Staff on December 28th, 2010
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how come when a black guy says something over the internet racially sterio-typing it's not racist but if a white guy were to it would be?
by RobsGraves on September 5th, 2011
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Are there more black catholics than other black christians?
by Answerbag Staff on March 28th, 2010
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Is there any legal reason California can't make their official state language Spanish?
by Aaron_J8432 on October 29th, 2011
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I give up will someone please tell me the proper names of races and nationalities?
by rabid on September 10th, 2011
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