Why Indigenous Cultures Don’t Slur People With Physical Features ( Skin Colour, Eye Colour, Genetic Traits, ETC ) — and Why The West Does.

Why Indigenous Cultures Don’t Slur People With Physical Features ( Skin Colour, Eye Colour, Genetic Traits, ETC ) — and Why The West Does.

Let’s start from something basic, because this is where people get lost.

Human beings overrate themselves.

We talk like we’re gods, but functionally we’re organic, biological computers. Same species, same base hardware. The difference is access. Some people are connected to wider networks. Some people operate entirely on local storage. No external input. No lived integration. Just recycled data and inherited assumptions.

Once you accept that, patterns stop looking accidental.

Now look across cultures honestly, not defensively. One thing jumps out immediately:
Western culture is the only culture that systemically turns immutable biological traits into insults.

Not behaviour.
Not character.
Not actions.

Body features.

Skin colour.
Shades of skin.
Hair texture.
Eye colour.
Facial traits.
Genetic markers.

Things people are born with. Things they cannot alter. Things they did not choose.

That alone tells you something is off.

Because when you look at indigenous cultures globally—African societies, Aboriginal cultures, Native American cultures, Asian cultures, pre-Abrahamic societies—you don’t see this as a collective norm. You might find an individual saying something reckless, but it is not culturally encouraged, repeated, systematised, or inherited as humour or identity.

And there’s a reason for that.

In indigenous societies, insulting someone for a physical trait is not just rude—it’s considered spiritually dangerous. 

The belief isn’t framed as “karma” in a Western sense, but the logic is similar: you don’t mock what nature created, because nature has a way of responding.

From childhood, you are taught—properly taught—never to insult:

• Physical disability

• Skin tone

• Eye colour

• Genetic traits

• Anything a person did not choose and cannot change

Why?

Because the thinking is simple:
If you curse someone’s body, you’re inviting that same condition into your lineage. Your child. Your bloodline. Your future.

So people watch their mouths.

Not out of politeness.
Out of self-preservation.

Now contrast that with the West.

In Western culture, body-based slurs are not only common—they’re normalised. Repeated across centuries. Embedded in language, humour, religion, pseudoscience, and even “spiritual” spaces.

That repetition matters.

Because when an entire culture repeatedly reduces others to physical traits, century after century, that is not coincidence. That is not “just history.” That points to something missing in the psychological and spiritual architecture of that culture.

And yes, I’ll say it plainly: you have to be at least partially mentally derailed as a collective to keep doing this without self-correction.

Now bring spirituality into this, because this is where the contradiction becomes embarrassing.

Western spiritualists talk endlessly about consciousness, oneness, vibration, love, unity. But in practice, the last person they will fully trust, platform, or grant spiritual authority to is someone who doesn’t look like them.

I’ve seen this too many times to pretend otherwise.

And here’s the explanation that actually fits:
They understand the ideas intellectually, but not experientially.

They’ve read the books. They’ve memorised the theories. They can repeat the language. But it isn’t integrated. It isn’t embodied. It isn’t lived.

Why?

Because many are like computers with no internet access trying to explain the internet.

You can speculate about Wi-Fi all day from local storage, but if you’ve never connected, you don’t know. And if you’ve never experienced something—love, suffering, being othered—you can only describe it academically, not truthfully.

That’s why some of the most “spiritual” people in the West are also some of the most racially rigid. The knowledge never made it past the intellect.

This also connects to history.

Most indigenous cultures were matriarchal or balanced. Patriarchy, as a rigid system, was forced globally through Abrahamic expansion—systems that later shaped Western civilisation. Along with that came hierarchy, domination, and the obsession with ranking bodies.

So when the West uses physical features as slurs, it isn’t random cruelty. It’s the residue of a worldview that sees the body as a marker of worth.

Indigenous cultures don’t do this because they never lost the understanding that the body is not a moral statement.

The West does it because somewhere along the way, it lost access to the wider network—and started mistaking local myths for universal truth.

That’s the difference.

Not intelligence.
Not civilisation.
Access.