Hence they are adopting and employing the same measures of dislike and hatred from which they have themselves suffered.” – John Dewey, “Racial Prejudice and Friction” (1922, MW 13:249) 3/
That is to say, the less advanced nations politically speaking, those with the least degree of former political self-consciousness, have now become nationally conscious and are identifying their national consciousness with what purports to be a race consciousness. 2/
“In any case I think we may safely conclude that the political factor is one chiefly responsible for converting antipathy to the foreign into definite racial friction. The matter is complicated by the fact that nationalism has spread until now antagonism is reciprocal. 1/
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In the main this feeling left to itself tends to disappear under normal conditions. People get used to what was strange and it is strange no longer.” – John Dewey, “Racial Prejudice and Friction” (1922, MW 13:243-246) 4/4
Race in its popular usage is merely a name given to a large number of phenomena which strike attention because they are different. We must, accordingly, consider the other factors which complicate the anti-strange feeling. 4/
I believe that it is the foundation upon which these other elements rest for their efficacy. Race is an abstract idea; according to science it is largely a mythical idea… But mankind requires something concrete, tangible, visible, audible to react against. 3/
In putting the prejudice against the strange in language, dress, manners, habits to the fore, I may seem to be dodging the main issue of racial prejudice. But although this feature gets overlaid by many other elements, 2/
“In the first place race prejudice is but one instance of the much more general fact of prejudice. Accordingly we cannot expect to understand race prejudice unless we take notice of the generic fact of prejudice… 1/
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