Is it possible to maintain and respect cultural heritage and not be a racist

[Drich]

When you have been taught that a just god rules the world, history can be troubling.

And it can be trouble free, it just depends on the ears and heart who receive this message.

Actually, it is troubling even without religion. Good people die. Really evil people sometimes succeed and there seems to be a lot of unnecessary cruelty.People who would want to do good are sometimes hurt and the people who hurt them aren't always brought to justice. I am glad that you are beginning to look at history, Drich but the lessons that you seem to have learned from history are different from what I learned.

"History" is one of the only subjects i did not completely fail at. It was story telling, they created pictures that I could understand and draw from, so I've been a fan of History from very early on.
The reason what I see and you see in a given historical period seems to be different is because you seem willing to except the spin of the one telling the tale. Every Story has 3 sides, The winning side the loosing side and the truth. Knowing History in such away as to not be doomed to repeat it, demands one dig deeper than what the 'winning side' would have you see.
When i draw on History to create an example it rarly from the point of the 'winning side' perspective. It is usally from a little of both sides if both are avaiable.

To some extent, it is natural for humans to classify each other into groups . Once people are put into groups it is easier to view anyone outside of our own groups as one of the 'others' From there, it is easier to dehumanize the others because they are different from us.

Every preamble to war starts with a dehumanization propaganda campain. Look at what we said about the indians. (Savages/cavemen, Joey Smith called them the sons of Satan) Again with Hitler and the Jews. He had his scientists reclassify them as a different sub species. Look at what we said about the Japanese, Koreans, Veitnamese, Iraqies, Taliban, ISIS fighters and the next 10 opponets we will face...

Now look at what members of this board say about hard core theists who do not support things like gay rights, or abortion, or support whipping their kids...

Deumanization is alive and well in soceity. it's targets however have been selected to fit a 'Vanallia assimilation' that has no other tollerance for those who do not want to live the vanallia lifestyle.

Did you ever answer, Drich, which specific practices your dad kept your mom from following?

I didn't see that question. Her orginal religion was the biggest thing. She was made to cook two dinners one for us, and one for him (would not eat 99% of korean food.) He would not allow my mother to serve her sibblings at dinner. (she was the youngest of the group and a woman, therefore serving the dinner party fell to her.) In fact there were several occasions where he made the men serve the women. He beat a korean man bloody for disiplining his daughter for comming home too late. (His fault, he was not a respector of anyone elses rules) and 50 other little things that made her friends and family not want to come around, which seemed alright with him.

Just typical american 'our way is the right way B/S and if your here you will do things our way.'