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The Real Reason ‘White People’ Have Attained to More than Every Other Race
The word ‘civilization’ can be used loosely or colloquially, or it can be applied in context of scientific meaning accorded by historians and anthropologists.
Colloquially, ‘a civilization is a way of life’. But then, a culture also is a way of life, meaning just about every culture qualifies as a civilization. In presence of highlighted quandary, a scientific deployment of the term civilization inherently has to imply more than a way of life, else it is redundant.
Deployed scientifically, ‘a Civilization’ is a society within which people are encouraged to, and are able to specialize in different professions, with outcome money becomes medium of exchange, and conditional on acquisition of qualifications stipulated by society, people have a right not to be farmers, as such have the right to pursue a profession. If people are to have the right to pursue professions, and the right to exchange money for that most basic of necessities, food, farming also had to become a profession, and farmers had to be able to produce enough food for feeding of the rest of society. With this in mind, any economy within which farmers implicitly are regarded as second class citizens does not qualify as a civilization. In the United States, ‘farmer’ is considered a choice of profession, with outcome less than 5% of…