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But would the opportunity be yours or would it be your child waiting in the wings somewhere?
Anyway, I think that 10 are enough.
Who was speaking modern? Generally speaking, a fair-minded, ethical, conscious person will try to remember to only judge the INDIVIDUAL, not a whole group or race of people.
I wouldn’t even hazard a guess here.
Wouldn’t you necessarily have to see that specific individual and his society in order to answer that question?
One size does not fit all.
I love words, I love books, I love poetry, I love music. i have auburn hair and green eyes so I suppose I might be representative of both the Irish and the Italian. Aside from the, I am my own kind.
But there are ways in which I am completely different than they are.
There are two sides to that coin. We are both but don’t you think that it is a good thing to teach our children that they are also other than we are? Would I really want to be like my mother?
On Children
Kahlil Gibran
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.
I find value in coming from my ancestors, having their blood (in a sense) surging through me, their history being a part of mine, et cetera. At the same time, I am me.
I don’t quite think this way.
Anyway, I am a part of society but I am also my own unique self. I don’t think that I judge myself, who I am, by what society does or does not do, good or bad, as a whole. I judge myself according to my own thoughts and action. I may not have expressed that well.
This is why I can admit to having my own biases. It is too easy a thing for racism to rear its ugly head and for us to be affected by it. We are human and vulnerable and weak and often unconscious of what we do.
A better word might be affirmed. To different degrees, no?
Is that being human? I do personally feel that it is a good thing to be called on something for our own sake but not to have to lose face.
In what ways are you and I not equal? Or is it you and me?lol
Hmmm…I’m not so sure of that. Racism is ignorance, tunnel vision, blind spots, narcissism, arrogance. I can also say that it is not so much on a subconscious level. Sometimes we feed off of it or it feeds off of us.
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As I’ve said before, I don’t equate the latter with the former. It’s just a personal preference, being in your own comfort zone.
That would depend on what you mean by your own kind. I like people who are different.
Well, with those dangerous ones, I might hide out in a tree somewhere.
But you are right. I understand what you are saying. But how could you know for sure that your own ilk were safer than those others?
lol What planet are you living on now and what kind of drinks do they have there?
I agree with you here. Everything is perception.
If someone is a racist though, what part does intelligence play here? It seems to me that that light has greatly dimmed.
Tolerance towards whom? What do you mean by tolerance thresholds? I understand what the words mean separately.
“Racism” is a new world ideology and modern technology, used to control populations and dictate social orders. The ones crying out “racism!” are usually the pawns and instruments for the core ideology. People are paying into a system. Racism can be used to suppress minority groups when one population threatens another, or also threatens to take control of resources.
Thoughts and feelings can be racist but legality depends on consequences/behavior.
That’s not what I meant but this is certainly true. I wouldn’t use the word developing. They have always been with us, because of religion, race, et cetera.
therichest.com/rich-list/the … -humanity/
But do you?