BIOL 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Ingroups And Outgroups, Xenophobia, Tutsi
21 Nov 2014
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War and genocide are distinctly human part of human nature: war is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, war. He is the only one that gathers his brethre about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animals that for sordid wages will march out and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel. And in the intervals between campaign he washes the blood off his hands - mark twain. Deeply rooted in our evolutionary history humans and chips are the only animals who collectively wage attacks against other groups of same species. 1492-1824: 10s of millions of indians in central and s. america slaughtered by spaniards. 1620-1890: 10s of millions of indians in usa murdered by immigrant americans. 1977-1908: 8 mill residents of congo free state killed by belgians.
