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Originally Posted by badgeguy
I would love for the entire world to think of us all as human beings first....forgetting the religious, ethnical, skin color, and all that....
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I'm not a fan of the "why can't we all be color-blind?" approach. I think it encourages us to accept a false uniformity by asking us to ignore the things about "them" that (1) make "them" who they are, and (2) make them different from "us." At best, it is disrespectful; at worst, it carries an expectation that everything would be okay if everyone could just be like "us." (As in, perhaps, suggesting that it's somehow wrong that the NPHC don't act like "the rest of us.")
Instead of trying forget or ignore these things, I think the better course is to strive to accept and respect the many things that make us all different -- my religious perspective would say strive to see how all of those differences somehow reflect the image of God -- and to understand how those differences can be enriching to us all rather than alienating. And in my experience, that can be much harder work than trying to "forget" the differences.
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Originally Posted by badgeguy
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Yes.
If you want more response than that, then perhaps you should offer thoughts of your own first rather than just plopping it down in the middle of the room and then waiting to see what happens.