"Did Race and Racism Exist in the Middle Ages?" Topic

"For generations, race studies scholars—historians and literary critics alike—believed that race and its pernicious spawn racism were modern-day phenomena only. This is because race was originally defined in biological terms, and believed to be determined by skin color, physiognomy, and genetic inheritance. The more astute, however, came to realize race could also be a matter of cultural classification, as Ann Stoler's study of the colonial Dutch East Indies makes plain…"

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Armand

So true! Everyone got along with each other it was just one big happy planet. Ohh wait… maybe that was a Disney movie I watched.
Thank God that was not true or we would not be wargaming now.

Ethnocentrism is a survival trait. We can redefine what "like me" means, but we all feel uneasy around people whom we cannot "read" because they are not "like me."

Saw Disney Ice Age and everyone got along together

Thanks

Armand

It clearly existed. Just look at the Spanish Reconquista. The Kewd were treated as inferiors and killed. The Moslem Moors were identified as such and an enemy.
The DeSoto expedition in Southeastern America noted in his logs that some of his men were Moors or negroes. It was a Spaniard and a Moor that was noted as being left at the village of Cosa

Glup!…

Armand

Considering that most people had not been more then a mile or so from where they were born, the people in the next village were "foreigners."

(smile)

Armand