Pumpkins, Solipsism, Guns & Racism (American Culture)
Following a long entertaining night with a local Halloween artist and English fiction writer Jack Bell, we have not only acquired strictly American skill of carving Halloween pumpkins but also learnt a lot o f insights on American culture. Racism . You may wonder why people, that share 99% of DNA with monkeys, still debate racist issues? Why the very people that were reduced to the population of about ∼2,700 ( Zhivotovsky et al 2003 ) individuals in our most recent evolutionary history pay so much attention to skin colour? We know that there's a great divide. The USA split into North and South. In the North people hate people but love race. In the S outh, people hate race but love people. In my previous blog post on black murderer/American writer , I pondered on source of that racism. It does feel that below race-label runs a deep wound. It looks like it 's less about black skin and more about never healing wound of slavery underneath that skin. Basically...