Not everybody is equal. While some may have the same level of intelligence, strength or righteousness, etc.; they may differ concerning other traits. If my skin color was black, just my skin color, then that wouldn't make me a better or worse person. But skin color
generally indicates ethnicity and ethnicity
generally dictates/indicates the type of culture amongst that group of people and so that type of culture can dictate the type of ethics, morals, values and righteousness.
Now comparing whites to blacks, just look at how much whites have accomplished. They built this country. Whites have more of a participation in white-collar jobs thus requiring more intelligence while minority groups mostly participate in labor/menial/blue-collar jobs. Don't even go off on a tangent telling me how this country was built on the backs of slaves picking cotton.
Compare Europe to Africa and the people living in the two: are they equal? If a white person and a black person have the same amount of morals and righteousness, but the white person, let's say, has more qualities, then I would give that person more respect. Why? Because he/she can contribute more to society. If it was the other way around with the black person, then I'd give him/her more respect for the same reason.
Also, I'd like to say that lack of climate change can hinder one's mental prowess. Due to Africa's mostly sub-civilized, basic, poverty-stricken state, with limited transportation, most Africans tend to stay in one spot, with one climate. Without a differing climate to challenge the mind-set of the prevailing climate, their intellect is somewhat hindered.
I copied this from a post by Jeffguy whom I owe thanks to:
"Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000, or 20% of the world population...
They have received the following Nobel Prizes:
Literature:
1988 - Najib Mahfooz.
Peace:
1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat
1994 - Yaser Arafat
Physics:
1990 - Elias James Corey
1999 - Ahmed Zewail
Medicine:
1960 - Peter Brian Medawar
1998 - Ferid Mourad
Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000, or about 00.02% of the world population...
They have received the following Nobel Prizes:
Literature:
1910 - Paul Heyse
1927 - Henri Bergson
1958 - Boris Pasternak
1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1966 - Nelly Sachs
1976 - Saul Bellow
1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer
1981 - Elias Canetti
1987 - Joseph Brodsky
1991 - Nadine Gordimer World
Peace:
1911 - Alfred Fried
1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser
1968 - Rene Cassin
1973 - Henry Kissinger
1978 - Menachem Begin
1986 - Elie Wiesel
1994 - Shimon Peres
1994 - Yitzhak Rabin
Physics:
1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer
1906 - Henri Moissan
1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson
1908 - Gabriel Lippmann
1910 - Otto Wallach
1915 - Richard Willstaetter
1918 - Fritz Haber
1921 - Albert Einstein
1922 - Niels Bohr
1925 - James Franck
1925 - Gustav Hertz
1943 - Gustav Stern
1943 - George Charles de Hevesy
1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi
1952 - Felix Bloch
1954 - Max Born
1958 - Igor Tamm
1959 - Emilio Segre
1960 - Donald A. Glaser
1961 - Robert Hofstadter
1961 - Melvin Calvin
1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau
1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz
1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman
1965 - Julian Schwinger
1969 - Murray Gell-Mann
1971 - Dennis Gabor
1972 - William Howard Stein
1973 - Brian David Josephson
1975 - Benjamin Mottleson
1976 - Burton Richter
1977 - Ilya Prigogine
1978 - Arno Allan Penzias
1978 - Peter L Kapitza
1979 - Stephen Weinberg
1979 - Sheldon Glashow
1979 - Herbert Charle s Brown
1980 - Paul Berg
1980 - Walter Gilbert
1981 - Roald Hoffmann
1982 - Aaron Klug
1985 - Albert A. Hauptman
1985 - Jerome Karle
1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach
1988 - Robert Huber
1988 - Leon Lederman
1988 - Melvin Schwartz
1988 - Jack Steinberger
1989 - Sidney Altman
1990 - Jerome Friedman
1992 - Rudolph Marcus
1995 - Martin Perl
2000 - Alan J. Heeger
Economics:
1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson
1971 - Simon Kuznets
1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow
1975 - Leonid Kantorovich
1976 - Milton Friedman
1978 - Herbert A. Simon
1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein
1985 - Franco Modigliani
1987 - Robert M. Solow
1990 - Harry Markowitz
1990 - Merton Miller
1992 - Gary Becker
1993 - Robert Fogel
Medicine:
1908 - Elie Metchnikoff
1908 - Paul Erlich
1914 - Robert Barany
1922 - Otto Meyerhof
1930 - Karl Landsteiner
1931 - Otto Warburg
1936 - Otto Loewi
1944 - Joseph Erlanger
1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser
1945 - Ernst Boris Chain
1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller
1950 - Tadeus Reichstein
1952 - Selman Abra ham Waksman
1953 - Hans Krebs
1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann
1958 - Joshua Lederberg
1959 - Art hur Ko rnberg
1964 - Konrad Bloch
1965 - Francois Jacob
1965 - Andre Lwoff
1967 - George Wald
1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg
1969 - Salvador Luria
1970 - Julius Axelrod
1970 - Sir Bernard Katz
1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman
1975 - Howard Martin Temin
1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg
1977 - Roselyn Sussman Yalow
1978 - Daniel Nathans
1980 - Baruj Benacerraf
1984 - Cesar Milstein
1985 - Michael Stuart Brown
1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein
1986 - Stanley Cohen (& Rita Levi-Montalcini)
1988 - Gertrude Elion
1989 - Harold Varmus
1991 - Erwin Neher
1991 - Bert Sakmann
1993 - Richard J. Roberts
1993 - Phillip Sharp
1994 - Alfred Gilman
1995 - Edward B. Lewis"
As you can see, the two religions Judaism and islam are NOT equal. islam should not be respected. It is an evil religion. Oh wait, I'm sorry. Its not a religion, its a death cult. I'm sorry if I'm being rude but please, take your marxist ideology, shove it up your arse and leave.
I believe all races are equal and different religions and cultures deserve respect. What are people's views on this?
Definitely. Afterall, when it comes own to it we are all the same. Made from the same chemical building blocks, to a DNA blueprint differing only by factors such as eye colour. There is no valid reason for anyone to believe him/herself superior to anyone else, and it is only blind arrogance or fear which makes people act otherwise.
Only eye color? What about hair, facial features, etc.? You talk about other people's arrogance but I think your pseudo-intellectual, self-righteousness limits you from being specific by listing only "eye color" thinking that that's enough to get your point across. I know you mean well but allow me to comment on your second statement: people definitely have the liberty to think that they are superior to others if they are. The problem is when it gets to people's heads and they begin to hurt other people who have the same amount of morals/righteousness but are inferior in other ways.
About respecting other cultures/religions, I agree. islam is out of the question. If another culture is righteous but different, then we should respect it. That doesn't mean that we have to integrate but still be polite to others if they are good.
To 'moral_rhuan,' you advocate treating all races/ethnicities with equality and the same amount of respect yet you call us racist pigs and bet that we're French, eh? Personally, I'm not all that cozy with the French but c'mon, man, you're pathetic. Hypocrite...
Well, there's my rant. I think that was my longest post....