Saturday, May 5, 2012

Cultural and Biological Evolution

The cultural evolutions of humans are of far greater importance than the biological evolution that created us.  As was brought up, humans all have the capacity for language, but it our culture that divides us.  Humans are all genetically the same, but it could be said that every human being, or race, has the same potential as any other.  The greatest divide between races is the different cultures between us.  Some cultures, like the Native Americans or tribal Africans, are more spiritual and focus on a closer communion with nature.  Others, like the European culture, focused on dominating and controlling nature.  From here, we see that the more warmongering and conquestful and land-dominating became the major power on the planet.  Not to say that some cultures are wrong, just that the Western culture came to dominate the others.  The cultural background of the West probably gave an "evolutionary" advantage to Europeans that allowed them to dominate the world.

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