Why does the US capitalism, the richest, the most powerful and technological country in the world, need to base its rule on a primitive ideology as racism? One can understand if that were the case for less developed/underdeveloped capitalism society.
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Yeah, I once believed the US to be the "most technological country in the world". But then I visited S. Korea and observed a deep techno-culture at work. Sure, the US excels in producing fighter jets capable of handling multiple targets and similar large-scale, complex projects but aside from that sort of thing there really is no American technological edge worth talking about anymore.
Regarding racism...
Yes, most people assume that a thorough cosmopolitanism is the natural result of technological sophistication. This is true for some people in the real world and in 1950's science fiction novels (in which humanity is somehow elevated to near perfection via the growing subtlety of its machinery) but for large segments of the population tribalism persists as a force.
Indeed, the techno-sphere can be pressed into service for spreading supremacist and seperatist ideas. Note, for example, the existence of racist web sites in the United States.
Technology is simply a manifestation of our tool making tendencies as a species. It doesn't cure our various mental problems such as racist hatred.
DRM