ABSTRACT
In the chapter’s discussion of racial paradox and racism, the author conveys the idea of humans being of one human “race.” The differences are based on ethnicity most often determined by culture rather than any natural separation based on race. This is presented as a paradox because a part of the myth of ethnic differences has been used in an exploitive way to further the idea of a theory of Opposites. This theory as developed by Jung points to ethnic differences but relates them as a difference of “race.” Human beings can be oppositional within themselves and with each other but this does not have to evolve into separation from one another based on a social construct such as “race.” The racism that develops from the ideas of the paradoxes of how we are different from one another further alienates us holding to our own kinship circles and tribal impulses.
