Let me lay a little ground work in some remote areas and finally tie them together with other ideas. This is all going to seem strange to you in the beginning, so bare with me. Scientists already today have realized that there is much information preprogrammed in our brains for assimilating and shaping outside information, social information. Take for example sexual preference, just recently they discovered that a very small clump of cells in our brains which determines our sexual orientation. All brains are born female, but usually for normal male brains, in the first 24 hours a hormone is released making a certain clump of cells grow. If the cells do grow the brain will be male oriented, making it seek out the female form. Vice-versa is also true. But all this also means that the visual clues in our brains for female/male traits also are preprogrammed in us. Unlike most lower animals, we rely much more on visual clues than smell. So there must be information already hardwired in our brains just to read the visual clues of the opposite sex. This also is supported by the obvious fact that we don't have to be told as to what the visual clues of a person’s physical appearance means. I like women, but never attended a class to learn how. There are visual clues for youth, meaning health and others telling us of old age, weakness and unsuitability for child bearing any more. None of which we have to go to school to learn. I even think that there is a good chance who we like to look at, who we find attractive, might depend a lot on our own gene makeup. If we have good genes and sense just as good and of the same type in the opposite sex, we might be driven to want to have sex with them. Like craving like. And since we all have our share of weak genes as well, we might sense our gene opposites which can improve on our offspring. So a type of liking your opposite is another flavor of craving. There is other information preprogrammed in us for listening to languages, learning impossibly fast and well as a child , when we clearly outstrip most adults in the assimilation of language. Later when we just use logic to learn languages, rather than some mysterious preprogrammed ability for it, we slow down. And later when this ability gets turned off with age, we become the slow adults who can move to a new country and learn the native language there more slowly in fifty years than a child in two years. In this way we become dumber not smarter with age. And all of it has to do with what nature hardwired in our brains. Other indications are the studies in Israeli where psychologists discovered that if children are closely exposed to children of the opposite sex when they are young they will develop the incest taboo and not marry those people. Even when they weren't biologically related. Strongly proving that there is instinct behavior in us, which is preprogrammed from birth which is conducive not for the individual member of the group, but for the group as a whole. We are as programmed for certain social behaviors as insects are in their domain. But we have the luxury of free thought processing over these instinctive conceptual behaviors and thought patterns. Now I'm almost at my point. There is another theory by a behaviorist at Harvard that much of our altruistic behavior is really deep down instinctually selfish behavior. He demonstrated with social insects with almost mathematical precision that the amount of willingness and effort one insect will sacrifice for another is in proportion to the amount of shared genetic material they share. If the other insect is not DNA related at all, no sacrificing is involved. You just don't, evolution in reverse it would be. For siblings with a quarter gene overlap, so much sacrifice, with fifty percent twice. Programmed altruistic behavior on the surface, but lying underneath, the instinctive consideration that your genes in you, are also in them, and they are just as important in them as they are in you. Individually we might have trouble relating to each other, but beneath our surface, we might be always registering similarities and differences between ourselves and acting accordingly. But always struggling with higher principles to govern and shape our behavior in accordance to higher considerations, usually abstract values. But always, a struggle between instinct and mind. And as in so many cases with war, with the alarming probability of complete gene destruction with impending physical death, instinct wins. When soliders rape the women of the people they are fighting with what are they really doing on an instinctive level to the enemy camp? They are infusing what they are into what they are trying to wipe out. What better way to defeat an enemy than to make them become you after a few generations? Losing what they were to biological history. Now what I want to suggest that maybe, just maybe we also read visual clues on other peoples faces as to who they are on a genetic level and as to how they overlap with our own genes. If there are two preprogrammed conceptual triggers: ONE, to judge and take care of ourselves as individuals within a greater society of animals for ourselves and TWO, another value system for weighting our importance towards the greater group we are in. A constant struggling of warring values, usually opposed to each other. And if the visual clues in groups with less range of visual clues for determining gene material is in certain groups because they are less varied with surface traits. Then their group behavior interest drive will be stronger than their drive for self-interest. Good for war and sacrificial soldiers, but bad for discovering the rights of individuals. Civil rights would have been a long time coming in most Asian countries. And pilots willing to dive their planes into ships on a suicide run would have been a long time coming in America. In some countries, the natives are able to look around and sense distant relatives in strangers. So a more natural feeling of kinship and blending into the whole group is fostered. In other countries, the natives only see strangers in strangers. Little feeling of connection, leading to a greater drive to stand out from the crowd and be to noticed. So in one group, those who stand out too much, try not to, in the another, those that do, beam with pride. Ever notice how sports fans like to dress up when they attend an important ball game? They brand themselves with what they wear to identify themselves with their favorite teams and their fans. When sports fans identify themselves too closely with a team they can feel real opposition to the rival teams and their fans. Sometimes when the feelings are taken too far in absurd silliness they start riots. Just over a game? But if you looked inside their feelings, the game was elevated to a war. Both being born from the same instinctive impulses. Sports are fine, beating fans sucks big time. These instinct is a double edged sword. Sometimes blindly going with a group can lead to mass destruction and horrible atrocities. Selfish ego can make an Amercian CEO feel egotistical about his huge salary and bonuses. Proud to stand so far above his employees in earnings. Where in Japan it might foster a sense of shame. Where even baseball teams play to win, but by not too much. We can borrow their good points, them ours. To tell the truth, These traits are not bad or good. They don't matter, just character does. Just character. Side Point This is why uniforms generally work in bringing out more strongly group behavior in soldiers, cops, nurses, whoever, all the way to Bikers with the same dress and beards, and even to priest wear. To all sort of ways of using uniform visual signals to foster a sense of group. Ever wonder why kids in gangs like wearing the same identifying cloths or why Hasidic Jews like to wear black and beards? It fosters a group identity which brings out group values over individual valves. Break a tough kid down, build him up as a group member. The Marines do that. Works, doesn't it? Clothes to build group identity. Clothes to stand out as an individual. What is your identity taste? Which group to do you belong to. This can be used and studied to discover which types of visual clues bring out what sense of belonging. From clothes to blend in, to others to stand out, and ways of designing visual clues to broadcast certain symbols for certain psychological effects. And when you guys make money from it by using it to design smarter clothes. by all means. Throw me a few bucks. They rendered my computer science useless. My punishment, I guess. Or is it, that flood, that I pointed out to them? What flood? Can't you figure it out, by now? Question is, a flood of what? So in one group the systems for enforcing greater group Consciousness and set of values is naturally stronger, but changing with time and integration. Where in the other, the triggers for individualistic values are stronger, leading more to a more exploratory nature and a natural stressing of individual values. From political revolutions to even the normal day to day behaviors manifesting themselves in a million different ways. The premise is, if the above is true, some states as they are now, are almost driven to look out for themselves. Much stronger group behavior values in them than us. Both are good, both can be bad, depending on how they act and where and when. From Japanese soldiers disposing and not understanding captured American soldiers in World War Two, sending them off on a death march because they thought to themselves, 'just look at them, how could they not sacrifice themselves to the death for their group, what low life these Americans must be.' In their minds they deserved their horrible deaths and may they never shame their family and race in the same way. With horrified American soldiers not understanding the seemingly complete lack of compassion for individual concerns and rights. Two systems values played out then and later today, in a disguised form with a new setting. In today's trade negotiations. One looking at the world in general on principle, putting in the background group concerns, the other with it in the foreground claiming otherwise, but always breaking promises to accommodate only themselves and only their group. This is the biggest division which hurts God. And the one Satan will play against him. The divisions between groups is something which Satan uses to divide his sub-Kingdoms. As Jesus said, "Satan's Kingdom is divided against itself." By this I don't mean Japanese. This was just an irritable example. This applies to all groups. It's in the countries with the greatest gene variety do races mix the best. Not in India, not in Japan, and not in China. The people there are basically good, but try living among them if you're an outsider. Not so easy. In these countries the group instinct is more likely to override consideration for individual concern in other people because of less genetic variety. But I believe this must become triggered in children to work strongly. When Asians are raised with a variety of people around them, I suspect that instinct fails to kick in fully. Or at least strongly. Time will tell. But in whites this instinct can also be tapped into. In Italy a long time ago, black shirts. In Germany, brown shirts. USA, more stylish, white hoods. Or gangs with colors in the streets. The real question is if these premises are true then.... How will other clannish groups behave once whites fall into a minority? Will the willingness for mixing continue or go the other way? I never judge how someone treats me when they are in an inferior position, but how I think they would treat me when they feel they are in a secure superior postion. That is when the buried poisons in some hearts surface. I'm not saying they are bad people by comparison because I AM NOT saying it, just that these groups might be more naturally clannish. And which group is least likely to walk in groups? You know the answer, but ever wonder why? Just think of their cultural values as being more of a reflection of family values extended beyond the nuclear family over the entire race. This ability is an organizational strength, what lone individuals can't do, groups often can. A thousand people can be stronger than a hundred thousand in that hundred thousand if they work together as a group[by whatever means]. And smaller groups sense this instinctively. Many clamor for the rights of the minorities to be loyal to their heritage, fine and good. But not for the majority, they are supposed to forget theirs. Not exactly a fair break. Unless your intent is to disrupt the majority, then the cultural battle plan makes sense. I suspect as individuals, we're more or less the same[somewhat]. As groups, we have a long way to go. But it is today's problem, isn't it? Tomorrow, we'll either be mixed one day, when it won't matter. Or God loses, and it just came down to the very best surviving. The same mind set which made Hitler kill those he thought which were bad for the German gene pool. I think most people are good for the most part, no matter what race. I'm using an example of how I think Satan divides us from others. Its across these instinctive group dividers which he casts his hook of hatred. If Peter can fish so can Satan. How did some men who married Jews in Germany turn in their wives for prison? What happened in their minds? Why did their hearts turn so cold? What DIVISIONS did Satan erect in their hearts? Group divisions? German husbands waking up one day to only think of their wives as Jews? How strong can a group division become, if it even can break up the love of married couples? Plenty strong! When did God ever hint Satan was weak? NO race is bad, no people. So never condemn one, but best to remember, Sometimes they can go bad. As we all know, Hitler and Satan had some usual ideas about race mixing. But then again, don't most groups who want to preserve themselves and secretly wish others don't. Can you feel that little itch deep inside your heart? All hearts carry it. Not so easy to get rid of that secret longing for group advantages over others. It is too natural. I guess it’s a good thing police have uniforms, isn't it? Keeps them together. It is that 'together' bond, forged with uniforms and training, which enables a cop or fireman to risk his life for a civilian. A marine or ranger uses the same group instinct for finding the drive to fight a group enemy. When you bond so strongly with a larger group you lose your lone self. How many Marines ever charged an enemy position, thinking only of himself? Any? When they face death, they're thinking much more of the group needs, not their own. That is the heart of a true soldier. When you watch West Point cadets celebrate graduation together, soldiers fight together, sport teams play together, bees and ants work together, fish swim together, birds fly together, wolves hunt together, cattle graze together, dolphins and killer whales swim together, deep down inside, behind it all, is the same instinct. We just have a lot more sophisticated thinking overlaying that instinct. But underneath it all, is that all important feeling, of belonging to a group. When you belong so much inside yourself, your identity has become, IS the group identity. Once I believed caring about clothes was stupid. I was so smart I was stupid. So, what do your clothes say about you?