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by
Paul W. Kroll
"1
HATE
YOU,"
is a powerful state–
ment. It brings tears, sorrow, dis–
illusionment. It can also cause
more hate, torture and ali-out war.
Today, an "1-hate-you" attitude grips
th.is earth. The hate is social, political,
religious, cultural and linguistic. It
forces groups to
TAKE SIDES
against each
other. War - either local or inter–
national - is the usual result.
Our Mad, Mad, Mad World
But have you ever stopped to won–
der
WHY
this world is filled with hate,
killing and war? Why can't people get
along? Why must skin color, religion,
language, tribal affiliation, política]
ideology, personality differences create a
barrier between two human beings?
The resuJt of this hard-nosed hatred
between groups and individuals is
re.flected in the strange, entangling
alliances we see in this wodd.
The Soviet Union was our ally by cir–
cumstances during World War I,
became an enemy between the wars,
changed to an ally during World War
II, now is considered by many to be our
greatest military enemy.
On the other hand, two former
enemies - Japan and Germany - are
our allies. That is, except East Germany
which finds herself allied with the
Soviet Union and, therefore, against the
United States.
In Asia, Chinese Communists oppose
Chinese Nationalists living on the
island of Formosa.
During World War JI Germans and
French - many of the same religion -
fought each other. Meanwhile, Vichy
French were against Free French.
Both tbe Soviet Union and Mainland
China have the same política! ideology
- Communism. Yet, bordee disputes
and general animosities periodically
flare up between them.
In the Nigerian civil war,
BLAC.K
lbo
tribesman fought
BLACK
Hausa tribes–
man. Sometime before,
black
Congolesc
hired
tuhite
mercenaries to fight other
black
Congolese.
Why? Why all this confusion? Why
this hatred for other human beings ?
The reason is, in unexpected ways,
quite simple. It has to do with the phe–
nomenon called ''group instinct." It
often manifests itself in what has
become an explosive four-lettcr word:
R-A-C·E.
Not color, but race. Color is
merely one aspect of race.
"Race" or "Group Instinct" involves
many interrelated factors. These include
birth, histor.ical association, language,
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culture, política! ideology, color, physi–
ognomy, religion, econornics - and
many other factors.
Origin of Group or
Race Hatred
But why must groups of people hate
each other? Is group
oc
cace hatred
inborn?
Actually, it is not. It is acquired or
leamed
behavior. That is the definite
conclusion of sociologist E. Franklin
Frazicr: " . . . studies of children have
rcvealed that cace prejudice is
ACQUIREO
BEHAVIOR" (
R!tce and
Cu/tttre Con–
tacls ín the Modern World,
Boston,
Beacon Press, 1957, page 275).
Recently, two sociologist/psychol–
ogists, Gustav Johada and Henri Tajfel,
stated that they found the first thing
most children learn about people of
other nations is to
DISLIKE them m
some
way .
Their declaration was presented to
the L27th meeting of the British Associ–
ation for the Advancement of Science.
lt
was based on a survey of Austrian,
Bclgian, Greek, Dutch and British chil–
dren, ages 6 to 8.
The Johada-Tajfel conclusion was,
"Emotional attitudes toward various
foreign countries are, as it were, built