From Scientology, The Fundamentals of Thought:

Identity and Attention

One “needs” an identity to play the game, as covered later, but mainly to “get attention.”

A being looks at things. To balance the flow of his attention, he feels he must also be looked at. Thus he becomes attention-hungry.

Unlike yellow and brown people, the white does not usually believe he can get attention from matter or objects. The yellow and brown believe for the most part (and it it all a matter of consideration) that rocks, trees, walls, etc., can give them attention. The white man seldom believes this and so is likely to become anxious about people. This the white saves people, prevents famine, flood, disease and revolution for people as the only purveyors of attention are scarce. The white goes further. He often believes he can get attention only from whites and that yellow and brown people’s attention is worthless. Thus the yellow and brown races are not very progressive but, by and large, saner. And the white race is progressive but more frantic. The yellow and brown races do not understand white concern for “bad conditions” since what are a few million dead men? There are plenty of identities and there is plenty of attention, they think. The white can’t understand them. Nor can they understand the white.

Attention and identity form a group of two. Attention makes space. Identity closes space.

Attention is a method of knowing. Inattention is a method of not-knowing.

Identity is a method of making known. Lack of identity is a method of making unknown.

I think I can see what is trying to get at. You know, beyond the bigotry that kind of comes out of left field only twenty-four pages into this book. The confusing of racial and cultural labels doesn’t help, seems pretty unnecessary, and was actually very shocking to see in a modern religion.  Would it really have been too much to word this in a way that was blatantly offensive and off the mark?  I realize that there are other holy books out there that have whole chapters and such that would be this to shame, but this wasn’t written back when the common cold was a killer disease.  It was written and edited within the last ten to twenty years.

If you want to point out the different values and ideas between cultures, that’s fine.  But this is not the same as differences between races, and pretending that it is and ignoring it doesn’t help anything.