Special treatment is precisely what we don't want. Elves get special treatment in the Tirs. Humans get special treatment in most places. All we want is to be judged by the same standards.

The trouble is, one person's leveling the playing feild is another person's special treatment. I run into this all the time, where steps taken to counteract prejudice are interpreted as an unfair advantage. This is the card humanis is always playing. Like I said, if there are natural limitations or advantages, then they'll tell in a fair comparison. But the prejudice of society is not a natural limitation, it's an imposed one.

I may have made an error in regard to you, though. In your post, were you referring specifically to the orcs who murdered your friend?

Why 'level the field' at all. if peopel are allowed to seek their level they will settle out to their natural place. Leveling interfers with that. it says a person cannot make it to ap oint on their own and so they will be given a boost, potentially over better qualified people. In the case of changed ones they are often boosted into a spot they cannot handle. The end result is that they need 'help' and special circumstances. In the end they are miserable and the person who with good but misguided intentions boosted the changed one is in a worse place.

In the end there should be no leveling or help. Let people get by on their abilities and changed ones get by on theirs. The end result is that people will settle into the proper place and so with the changed ones and in the end everyone will be happy because no one will be forced into an unnatural situation.

Thus the polite face of Lone Star's criminal profileing being solely directed at metahumans...

That's not all that's slipped passed her.

Right, and none from CAS, CFS England, France or any of the nations run by non-humans. Heck the so called elven nations are falling apart, showing clearly their advanced abilities are just a sham.

Platonic, my point is there is no need to level anything. Just let people perform without needless interference form outside groups and people will level out. Otherwise when you see some changed person in an office you wonder did they get there because of their own ability or were they given a hand up by someone and otherwise would not be there? You look at them and doubt their ability from the start, and so limit that rare talaneted changed one who can work with people on their own level.

Are you proposing a more even-handed approach?
A situation where meta's rise in prominance within their own communities?
Without the interference of human capabilities and expectations?
For such to occur would require a minimal exposure to human communities.
Thus requiring physical distance between metahuman communities and human communities.
Obviously for the misguided on both sides an organisation would be needed to prevent the two communities from mixing.
This organisation would need guidelines and standard operating procedures, requiring legislation.
Due to metahuman nature this organisation's representatives would need to be armed and armoured.

To conclude you propose a small volcanic island in the middle of the phillipines, surrounded by guards with orders to shoot on sight.

History has a tendency to overthrow such concentration camps, re-educations centres, detention facilities, Yomi etc etc etc

And yet you're convinced from the start that they can't do it, and you don't give them the chance. It's humand, regular humans, who have an initial leg up. They have no prejudice to overcome. Yes, when some form of "equal opportunity" is enforced, a metahuman may be hired over a better qualified human. But in every instance where it isn't enforced, a human will be hired over a better qualified metahuman. The playing feild isn't level.

So you count Yamatetsu, Huh, despite the "error of their ways"? That's interesting, and shows just how far you'll go to make the facts fit yoru world view. By that logic, should we consider all Japanacorps American, because it was American money, American techniques and American markets that built the japanese economy? But wait, it should be Britain who gets the credit, because without the British empire their would have been no USA. The japanese culture (not the japanese people, which is entirely different) doesn't support this kind of thinking. It traces back to where Japan is tops, and stops exactly there. You conviently ignore the metahuman at it's helm, and that it's corporate profits have not only recovered, tehy are higher than they were when they were headquartered in Japan. Did you forget that the top tier megacorp isn't run by a human, but a Dragon? In both your thinking on metahumans and your thinking on ethnic lines, you start with your conclusion and work backwards.

A lot of metahuman rights groups might do the same thing. I don't. There are definate areas of weakness when it comes to metahumans. Dwarves have height issues, and would be poor at jobs requiring stature. Trolls have the opposite problem, and would be poor at jobs requiring fitting in tight spaces. Many metahumans are stronger and tougher than normal humans. I'm even willing to accept that there are some mental limitations to certain metatypes. Yes, orcs test worse than humans, and trolls worst of all. Orcs and trolls tend to have worse people skills than humans. I accept the data. But the data is inconclusive as to the cause of this. It may be from a structural difference in the brain, it may be from genetics, or it may be that it's entirely the product of a culture that treats gobliniods as second class citizens. The data I've seen suggests the latter. It suggests that the poor social skills are a result of a hostile social environment. We can't know until we raise a generation of orcs and trolls in a non-hostile environment and see how they perform.

I concur. Most racists are inferior beings.

Log into the Corporate patent database and search for metagenetics patents. Take a good look at all of them. Have an Agent do it if you don't have time. You'll notice that of the 154,497 metagenetic patents filed in the past 50 years, 92% of them refer back to techniques described in 38 now expired patents filed by an independent Troll geneticist. This single Troll, working on his own in his basement forged the foundation of modern metagenetics. He did things that no Megacorp was able to do before him, despite their trillions of nuyen and thousands of researchers. More importantly, every single modern Megacorp metagenetics program is build on his work. When his patents expired and the Megacorps could freely use them for the first time, the quality and availability of metagenetic testing and alteration increased a ten-fold almost overnight.

The insinuation that goblinoids are idiots is insulting.

Do you want to know why orks and trolls test lower than average in IQ screenings?
I know and I'll tell you. It is the elfs.

Have you ever seen a keebler drink a glass of water? Vodka. That's what they drink, isn't it? Never water? On no account will as keebler ever drink water, and not without good reason. Water. That's what I'm getting at. Water. Water is the source of all life. Seven tenths of this earth's surface is water. Why, you realize that.. seventy percent of you is water. And as metahuman beings, you and I need fresh, pure water to replenish our precious bodily fluids.

You beginning to understand?

Have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water, or rain water, and only pure grain alcohol? Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation? Fluoridation of water? Well do you now what it is? Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous elf plot we have ever had to face?

Right, because he wanted to become a human and not the thing he had become.

I am not advocating changed ones being sent off to ghettos. The poor creatures could not survive. Look at the so called elven kingdom to the south of Seattle. Started with loads of hope and liberal money but it has fallen apart. It's economy collapsed long before the matrix failed. In the mountains west of Seattle there are the Cascade Crow indians who are normal people, but the cascade Crow Orks are only able to exist as criminals, unable to support themselves in the regular community.

I also do not agree that in a truly level field that a less talented human would win out every time over a more talented changed one. But the prejudice you cite cuts both ways. Look at Snow Fox. A human who only wanted to enjoy what is said to be the best BBQ in the region but because she was human she was not accepted by the changed ones. They clearly prefer their own company to socialize in and this shows the double standard in the liberal community. A group of humans want to have a gathering and the media insists they must allow changed ones in, but who protests in places like the Big Rhino where it is well know people are abused if they try to just sit down for a meal? non-elves in the Tir are limited to ghetto's by law. the changed ones there make things far harder for normal people to survive than we make it for them.

Let's just bring the collective attention back to Yomi and compare again.
Or perhapes the Calfree protectorate then again compare.

The meta human re-eduction centres? Night of Rage? Redmond Barrens? Hand of Five? Prevailing sentiments in Renton?

I appluad your ability in denial. Long may it continue.

I have said that ghetto's do not work and the Emperor in his wisdom ended Yomi. Can the same thing be said of humans living in Salem under the so called benign rule of changed ones?

Violence breeds violence, oppression breeds oppression. Sins of the father etc
What humans suffer in Salem has been paid for by the actions of others.
You do not get to call foul over the same actions taken by other segments of your demographic.

Salem, like fluoride, is an elf conspiracy.

Do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk... ice cream. Ice cream, Pendaric, children's ice cream.

DLN, in all the world, ONLY the Tirs have metahuman governments, and in that case it's elves. Elven governments who are more racist, and more proud of their racism. And elves have Never shown any cognitive disabilities. You go on about the metahuman governments of the UCAS and the like. Hardly. These are merely governments that are less racist than yours. having the occasional metahuman hold office does not equal metahuman rule. In fact, the number of metas in office is far lower than the number of meta in the population at large. Metas are under-represented.

Incidentally, I wouldn't bring up so called "failures of state" in your argument. It doesn't reflect well on Japan. This is the second time in 150 years your countries attempts at a pacific empire has failed, and it fails in part due to your inability to incorporate the different. Oh, and did I hear a shadowrunner disparage a group of people for making their living via crime? Back when native americans were second class citizens, they made a living on vice too. Often when an individual or group is denied a path in the light, they must take to the shadows to survive. The cascade orc's separation from their tribe was not entirely voluntary, you know.

Orcs and trolls have, I admit this, cognitive issues, but the data isn't cut and dried. The cause is unknown. The fact that the testing shows the gap lessening with time suggests (suggests) that its s social issue and not a genetic one. The troll we take as an example may have lost some cognitive ability in the change from a human, but is that due to the nature of the troll or the nature of the change? Data suggests at least part of it is the change.

Let me make it personal (I've drifted there a bit over this thread). My grandfather was a mathmatics professor at a major university before his change. After the change he was let go, and was unabel to get another teaching position. His IQ was tested at 155 before the change. After the change, he tested about 115. He was also listless, self-loathing, his confidence shattered, and he never really tried at anything again. My mother was born a human, and expressed at puberty. Her IQ was 152 before her change. When she changed my grandfather had been an orc for 5 years. He decided to home-school her. When she was retested years later her IQ was about 130. I was born an Orc. Before I got my augmentation, my IQ tested at 147. It is now around 170. If you compare the members of my family against the norms of our respective generations, you'll see that though we are consistently 3 standard deviations above the norm, we also follow the general curve of the data. Orcs who initially changed were most effected by the change. Those that were raised by other orcs were less effected mentally, and those that were raised by orcs in a mroe accepting environment where more resources were available do better still. Today the difference between the average orc and the average human in testing is less than one standard deviation, meaning it's effectively moot. For the record, the average human IQ is 103, the average orc score is 97, the average troll's is 92. The elven average is 107, though some of that data is provided by the Tirs and is suspect, it's the best we've got. The average dwarf tests at 102.

In the case of elves, hyzmarca, I can assure you that flouridation of the water does not have the effects you fear. I've seen things that make be beleive that certain groups of elven supremicists have taken conspiratorial action, but it's hardly fair to blame it on all elves. Maybe on a specific elven culture or two, but not on elves in general.

The standard deviation is 15. So humans score 1/5th higher than the total normalization. Orcs score a similar amount lower, making the difference around 7 IQ points, a little less than half a standard deviation. A difference that small means almost nothing in practical terms.

I didn't mention the test was normalized because that's part of the definition of an IQ test. Should I explain standard deviations as well?

The Japanese empire suffered from natural disasters, but if it were better at incorporating differences, their "client states" would have been more willing to assist Japan rather than take the opportunity to revolt. The empire fell apart because, given the opportunity, the people it treated as second class citizens choose to rebel. Thus is the fate of all cultures that treat some as second class citizens.

Elf fixation!

I don't think any of that matters. I'm told he first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love.

Yes, a uh, a profound sense of fatigue... a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I... I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. Loss of essence.
I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Vampires uh... vampires sense my power and they seek the life essence. I, uh... I do not avoid vampires, Mandrake. But I... I do deny them my essence.

Platonic, you continue to make my point for me. When your grandfather changed, not only did his intelligence drop but he became listless you said. I know family histories tend to color facts, but I would think he was dismissed because of his attitude, not his teeth.

Japan has not been trying to create a Pan Asian Empire. They have only been ensuring their own position and protecting its own people.

To got back to the mid 20th century we can clearly see what happened to people who rejected the Greater East Asian Co-prosperity Sphere. We were at first applauded for being Asians who stood up to western colonization, but they immediately wanted to be given the same lifestyle we enjoyed, as a gift, without working for it and they objected when Japan needed to take the time to build up her own infrastructure to do this. Why would we want to recreate this for a people who do not appreciate us? The presence of Imperial Troops and operatives in the Philippines was not colonialism but just the protection of Japanese property following the failure of the Philippine government to keep order. I, for one, will be very happy to never set foot in Manilla again.

Look what happened to the Asian peoples after the war. Japan became the dominant economy in the world because her people understood hard work and had an honestly elected government that accepted responsibility for its failures and worked towards success. Korea, and Indochina sliced themselves up in civil wars. Burma and the Philippines slide down to become impoverished beggar nations. China became a repressive dictatorship. Then when it tried to become a modern market, collapsed into the mess it is today. But Japan, a homogenous culture and people have consistently risen about all that.

When people started changing this was naturally seen as a shock and fearful. Japan kept a closer relationship with its mythology than any other industrialized power so it was far more of a shock to see Oni and Kami appearing in Tokyo than for goblins to appear in Berlin. But recognizing that these were once people who had changed, we took steps to isolate them for their protection as much as for that of the population of Japan. Maybe the USA would have avoided the terrible night of rage had you taken the same steps.

Lastly to go back to Salem. You show my point yet again. Japan has recognized that actual ghettos are now an evil and we closed Yomi. The elves controlling Salem have not recognized this and the very existence of the ghetto in the first place shows elves are no more advanced than other changed ones. They are just aping what humans did, not showing any sort of advanced thoughts, but monkey see, monkey do.

My grandfather was let go the day he got out of the hospital. The change in his attitude happend after he was fired.

Metas ape humans? They ARE humans. The only reason you can say that humans tried it first is because humans were here first.

Where the current japanese culture succeed is in their focus on hard work and economic success. Where the current japanese culture fails is in the social aspect. Are you aware that Japan has the highest suicide rate in the sixth world?

DLN, the facts you produce are frequently correct, but the picture you paint is limited. You find facts that support your preconceived notions (japan is best, metas aren't as good as normal humans), twist them when they don't fit, or ignore them. Hardly scientific. I don't make your arguments for you. I show the data I have. Sometimes you can take that data to support your claims, but I don't agree with the conclusions you draw, and their are other conclusions that fit the data just as well.

Instead of criticizing a race, you should criticize a culture. I have nothing agianst Japanese people, but the current Japanese culture has traits I abhor. It's nothing inherent to being japanese. Japanese people in different cultures don't share these attitudes. Some japanese within the culture aviod having these attitudes. Similarly, The elven societies of the Tirs are terrible, but not all elves are elven supremicists. The modern Orxploitation movement is a tremendous misstep, because it encourages young orcs to live up to the stereotype of greedy, shortsighted thugs. That culture is not intrinsic to being an orc.

Eunabo djoto, cerri.

You miss the vital point that the Japanese people and the Japanese culture are the same thing. That is the strength of Japan. The people are one race, undiluted for centuries. The culture is one culture that has grown with the people. I know the Americans pride themselves on their "melting pot" but look how long that lasted. Less than 300 years before the indians rose up and fell back into tribal patterns, and the melting pot could not resist them.

I have not said "Japan is the best." I am arguing facts and avoiding the subjective terms. However it can be seen that the unified japanese culture has produced many long lasting benefits that other peoples envy and seek to emulate. Don't think so? wanna bet 10 on it?

Sure. The only condition I have on it is you have to leave out every instance of Japan copying another culture, and only use things Japan developed by themselves as examples.

So basically western economic practices, such as corporations are out. Western Law is out. Anythign based on western science is out. Oh, wait, I seem to recall that Japanese politics, literature, and philosophy all borrow heavily from Imperial China. Hell, your "native" system of writing is so close that japanese and chinese people can write letters to each other, despite not speaking the same language. Oh, and Bhuddism is right out, so anything based on bhuddist principles.....

There is nothing special about japanese values that guarentee their success. Everyone gets their time in the spotlight. The US had it's time. Britain before it, France before that, Spain before that, Italy before that. China's time has come and gone, and may be coming around again.

The Japanese race is not the Japanese culture. For one, Japan has had more than one culture. The Post-WW2 Japanese culture is recognizeably different that that which came before. Second, the Japanese are not ethnically homogenous. The natives of HokkaidÅ? and Okinawa are different ethnicities than other japanese, for instance. Thirdly and lastly, There are many, many people who are ethnically Japanese (as much as that means anything, see point 2) who are not japanese culturally. My wife is a second-generation Japanese-american. Both her parents were Japanese-america, and all her grandparents were Japanese. Her culture, however, is that of san-francisco, and she is hardly the only one.

DLN is Shinto, not buddist. and as much as I hate to agree with her on any of this, she has a valid point about the Tir's isolation policy. I think we can all agree that ghettos are bad. Yomi was an abomination just as the night of rage was. So having seen all that evil, why do the elves, claiming to be an enlightened people, reproduce the worst social injustice of the 21st century?

Stop dredging up the past gang. We all come from peoples who abused other peoples. If we didn't, we wouldn't be here and I'm stil llooknig for the Catholic church, as a survvinig element of the Roman government to pay my family back for Alesia. Keep it current day before we start discussing slaughtering Ainu and Wounded Knee.

Despite the obvious need to revisit history in aspected view point of racism. Let us instead focus on the fact that all of metahumanity, when viewed in the majority, are tribal primitives with the perchant for violence.
Equally proficient at the moral laxity and double standards despite metatype, sex or sexual preference.

you look at the surface of japanese culture and don't understand it. the dedication and self sacrifice that made Japan a power in the 1930's was then used to rebuild her after the barbaric use of atomic weapons on Japan. this dedication made Japan an economic power in place of a military one. It is the only non-white power that did not have its indigenous faith pushed into a secondary role by westerners. Shinto shrines are as active now as they were in the 19th century. And I am afraid you are mistaken about the written languages. While two scholars both writing in kanji can communicate beyond barriers, the Hiranga alphabet is strictly Japanese.

And this thread is about the changed ones being exploited or given a way of expression. you talk about how young orks are being pressed into a stereotype, but where did that come form? How many young dwarves are given gifts of tools by their own families to encourage that stereotype? Orks are shown 'tough' orks and trolls and the military or security or athletics as fields where they can earn their way successfully, because they are not going to be believable as a corporate suit. And if you look at models, reference 'racer queens.' You will fine no ork or troll women in skin tight outfits draped on cars. the idea of a troll in an add for VS or Fredericks or Freudian slips negligee just isn't happening.

Sorry DLN you appear to have fallen into ranting, please make a coherent point so we may derail it for you.

Also you obviously don't watch yamatetsu metamatrix which does have metahuman women in their ad's. I believe that was some how important to your spittle laden tirade.
By the way you will ultimately fail if you argue with the bottom line of commerce.

Taps the poor changed one on the head sympathetically.

I was not ranting I was stating facts. what you seem to miss, and is typical of the changed ones as they lose an argument, that they accuse the humans of being racist and going off in rants. I assume you I am quite calm and if you want to look at the economic bottom line, then clearly the superiority of Japan, with an unmixed, human population rised like cream rto the top. By comparrison the so called elven nations in North America, Ireland, and Africa are sinking.

And while one corp may have relocated to Siberia, notice they keep the Japanese name and have some ads particularly for changed people, they are not in mainstream media, but rather in publications aimed at those particular groups.
Hense they recognize, even with a changed one friendly attitude, that changed ones should not and cannot mix easily with normal people.

Promise, I'm not ranting. very calm.

Mr. P? A changed one?

My word, i find the very idea of Pendaric as a "changed one" somewhat amusing.

DLN, may i be first to point out that cream is not the only thing to rise to the top, i suggest you are more careful with your metaphors in future.

If you would allow me to join the delicate expostulations of this particular thread, i would first like to point out the terribly circular rumpus that appears to be going on, indeed a veritable game of swings and roundabouts as the saying goes.

My dear ladies and gentlemen of the board, it is very likely no good in arguing away with our good companion DLN. I will not say that she is right, as i firmly believe her (i assume you are a madame, if not, please accept my most humble apologies. If so, then at least forgive the assumption, it can be so hard to tell in this electronic world in which we commune) to be wrong in a great deal of areas. No, it lies unfortunately in the apparent method in which she has assembled her facts in such a way as to make an unpenetrable veneer on her world view in much the same way the Japanese of old would lacquer their armour.

Her unswayed belief in the superiority of her culture and beliefs is certainly admirable in some instances but sadly misguided in many others. Statement of facts derived from lessons left unlearned over the years by her culture is a sad testament to a country that had so much to offer the world in the previous century and has now regressed back to a much older and less refined form of xenophobia.

It amuses me a great deal that a people originally formed from the mixing of at least two ethnicities have become scared of a mixing of species. After all, has not mother nature herself proved on many occassions that a hybrid takes the best of both species from which it comes, increasing it's chances of survival in the harsh world in which we live? Also, has nature not shown that those that cannot adapt to a new environment will perish?

To realise the truth of anything in this world you simply must know only two simple rules:

1) Life thrives on Conflict, to strive is the very essence of life
2) All things end

DLN, the Japanese as a culture and a country has risen and fallen many times over history, the British Empire eventually buckled and bent under it's own weight before being carved up and parcelled out to it's members, the United States fractured and ceased to be and one day Japan will follow the same course.

Every dog has it's day, my dear, and then it dies. It's simply the order of things.

Whilst you may sing out how Japan is so superior because of it's actions, in truth it is merely just a question of timing. Japan has risen whilst other's are on the decline. It is a simple contrast that shows only how far above everyone else you have become and not how close to heaven, as it were, you have gotten.

Metahumanity is not old but without doubt, it's star is on the rise and who is to say what lofty peaks it may reach? It is a the trickle of water wearing away the rock and my advice to you is not to be the rock.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that all things should be equal. What would be the point? It would be a situation of too many Daimyo's and not enough Samurai if that were the case. But everyone, regardless of being a single soul or a species as a whole, if they want it enough and work at it enough will get what they are looking for. Maybe not today and maybe it will be on the backs of those that came before them when it does. But the hardships it faces is what makes a species strong and racism in any form is just another hurdle along that path.

Terribly sorry, i do seem to have gotten into my rut and blathered on far too long. I shall enjoy this discussion further at a later point, for now i am late for an appointment.

Ta Ta

~C

They did. Evo isn't even a listed corporation in the Corporate Court Directory.

~J

I must concur Mr Coup that the expostulation that I am a meta human, when I have stated my metatype in this very thread, is a matter of mirth and symptomatic of the derangement of perspective derived from racism.
Simply because I take a position contrary to DLN she adopts a superiority not derived from pre-knowledge of my abilities but on assumption of my metatype.
Clearly lacking the politeness and displaying the smug attitude I so recently detailed in my preamble.
The lack of flexibility endemic of racists places them beyond doubt as a lesser life form.
Inferior in the polarity of their fixation.

The brevity of my earlier answers is more from a fact there was little need for more words than a lack of control or you envision me spluttering in rage. Unlike you, who seems to seek to put up a vast volume of words to over whelm resistance, I need only a few words to make my point clear.

Mr Croup, my point is that while other empires, you point to the British and american empires, rise then fall. Japan has risen and fallen and risen again, like the tide and just as irresistible.

The ugly word racist raises an interesting point. We drift back to the idea that is there a difference between human and changed ones? Is a person who acknowledges a difference a racist or a realist? Is the person who says there is no difference kindly and open minded? or Looking at the world through rose colored glasses?

There are significant differences between humans and changed ones. They have noted failures in intellect but superior physical ability. I am just being honest and acknowledging these facts. I do not blame the changed ones for their condition any more than I would blame someone for being left handed or the victim of a fire for their scars. They are to be pitied for the hand that fate dealt them.

Except that we dismiss your pity. Keep your damn pity. We're fine, thanks, and the biggest hurdle we face because of our condition is the attitudes of people like you. No cognitive impairment, no limited lifespan, none of the differences you love to point out (and that I won't disagree they are there) are anywhere near the impediment we face in culturally-entrenched prejudice. For every orc who can't do the job because they aren't capable, there are a dozen more who are fully capable and yet discriminated against.

You mention ads don't feature orcs unless they are targeted to orcs. So what? The default add is targeted towards humans, so it features humans. Or maybe elves, they're close enough in general build that the same things appeal. What we must get used to is that humans aren't the default. They are just another metatype. Try looking at it that way, for just a second, DLN. Just try for me. I don't attitudes to change much, but if you see that humans aren't special in any way, they are just one of many different forms that sentient life takes, I think it'll put some things in perspective. You're a meta, DLN. Your metatype is human.

Besides, when was the last time you saw an add that wasn't targeted based on your personal data? Even the Trid plays different commercials for different people. It's part of why those things have standardized lengths.

(PS, since this is an SR3 forum, I assume EVO doesn't exist yet).

DLN, i'm afraid you've missed the very thrust of my argument, or at least misconstrued a point i've mentioned previously.

Whilst i do not deny your point on the rise and fall of Japan, it is interesting to note that you fail to point out that Japan has only risen and fallen within the microcosm of it's own islands and a few surrounding countries. Britain suffered similarly themselves before founding the Empire, the United States tried the same and inevitably paid the price for their impetuousness. Japan, now, is struggling to keep hold of what it has thrust it's sticky mit out to claim within this century. Whilst i don't deny it's economical capability or the fecundity of it's people, you will see, if one looks carefully, that the cracks are starting to show. Though the US has passed into history, both Britain and Japan have shared a similar history of rise and fall upon their own shores and whilst you may deride the US and Britain now, the UCAS is proof that last vestiges of the old US struggle on and fair Britannia will once again have her day once her own internal problems straighten themselves out. As an aside, i only use the US and Britain as two prominent and contemporary examples of my case in point, i'm sure if you look the world over you will find countless examples of the rise and fall of many cultures. As Mr. P. so astutely remarked, the ones that survive are the ones that adapt.

Now to address your point on racism, let us advert ourselves to the dictionary definition of the word: