Direct guidance from the Head of the Faith, in each period of Bahá’í history, has consistently counseled the Bahá’ís to abandon prejudice against different races, religions, ethnicities, and nationalities. This is a difficult problem, but throughout its history the Bahá’í Faith has always championed racial unity, even in difficult circumstances. Spatial geography can reinforce systemic racial discrimination.
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Thus, individual people may believe themselves free of racial prejudice, but they may face no or weak testing of this belief if they are isolated in geographic circumstances that solidify racial disunity. Human beings have embedded racial disunity within geographic space, where it is hard to change and is reinforced by political, economic, and social boundaries.
As the term is used here, racial unity focuses on unity among various racial and ethnic groups.Įliminating individual prejudice is a necessary, but insufficient, part of promoting racial unity. One subset of the unity that is necessary is racial unity. Bahá’ís think of such problems as symptoms the illness is absence of the unity of the human race. Many nations face such disunity, which can cause social conflict, lack of empathy for “others,” discrimination, and exploitation. Lack of unity among people of various races, ethnicities, and classes is a major problem for human society.
Photo by Ivan BanduraĪ few portions of this paper were previously published by the author in “Race, Place, and Clusters: Current Visions and Possible Strategies,” The Journal of Bahá’í Studies 27, no. Content ©2020 Bahá’í International Community.
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