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Originally posted by Claeren@Oct 27 2004, 06:55 PM
Except i can't see someone who would obviously be seen as an outsider ethnically having such a huge effect on the people of the region and not be recorded historicaly as an outsider, know what i mean?
Claeren.
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The thing is, we don't know that the culture at the time would have made the same "race" designations as we do. At one time in Europe, people considered those who lived in a mountainous region a different race from those who lived inland or on the coast. Skin colour didn't become a big issue in our culture until the age of exploration and colonialism.
Dividing humans up as races became a way to marginalize certain groups and make an excuse or justification for exerting power over them. In the times of Jesus, it may not have been necessary to look at black people and white people as different, at least no more than superficially - in which case, why would they note it? It may have been no more noteworthy than eye colour, height, or hair length.