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Subject: Re: Imagine the America you want to live in #2
People who are different from the mainstream may often experience bad treatment. I think that it is unfortunately a part of our basic human nature to be wary of those who are different. We also often try to save time in our thought processes by relying on generalizations about groups of people. For these reasons, I feel that prejudice will probably never be entirely eliminated.However, we have come a long way in overcoming prejudice and discrimination and I think that we can continue to improve. The key, I think, is to take the time to learn more about others, especially those who are different. Get to know them as individuals.
As always, that is something I hope to accomplish through this dialogue series. I encourage everybody to participate and share their thoughts and feelings
Subject: Re: Imagine the America you want to live in #2
In my town, which to be fair is a fairly progressive little town for the most part, there are hints of racism (mostly used as humor in jokes and the like), but as far as I've seen, barring a few idiots, everyone is treated pretty fairly.Subject: Re: Imagine the America you want to live in #2
I think this may be too broad a question. It depends a great deal on the area and on the difference. I have seen people who treat people with physical or mental disabilities with remarkable warmth, kindness, tolerance and understanding but turn right around and cheer when they hear about a gay man being pushed face first through a plate glass window.I mourn for a world where there is any group of people that it is socially acceptable to persecute and torture.
Subject: Re: Imagine the America you want to live in #2
I think its a shame that although we remove some types of discrimination others still exist - discrimination is discrimination no matter who or what group it is aimed at. While it is now considered unacceptable to discriminate against colour its ok to do it against religion or sexual preference. Unfortunately people seem to learn little from history - look at what dammage treating people who are different from us badly has done in the past.I find it interesting how people claim to be against it yet still laugh at snide little jokes aimed at particular groups..i myself have been guilty of this caught up in the moment - but it is wrong.
Subject: Re: Imagine the America you want to live in #2
Laughing at jokes doesn't bother me, as long as the jokes are funny, as opposed to just stupid/hurtful.Laughing at our differences is a sign that we're comfortable with our differences. And that's important. In my perfect America, whites wouldn't feel awkward laughing at comics like Carlos Mencia, who jokes freely about just about any group, his own included (and is quite funny, as long as you don't mind an act a little too heavy on profanity)
Humor can be a bonding experience, and as long as it's not meant to be hurtful, it can be a positive force.
We are all different, aftre all, and there is humor to be found there -and I'd rather laugh at our differences in good spirits, then try to pretend they didn't exsist. Also, if all our differences are destigmatized through humor, it makes hating people for those differences harder to justify, too.
Subject: Re: Imagine the America you want to live in #2
I like learning more than anything, and people are my favorite topic, so in my version of the America I'd want to live in, people who are different from me are treated as sources of personal expansion. Because of this, people treat others with respect, and welcome differences rather than fearing or ignoring them. Invisibility isn't a lot better than overt mistreatment. My workplace is actually like this, for the most part, and a big part of why I like to work there.Subject: Re: Imagine the America you want to live in #2
In the America I dream of, everyone is treated the same. It is similar to John Lennon's "Imagine." There would be no reasons to hurt or characterize others as different. There would be no need for affirmative action - no question of race/gender/economic disparity.Obviously, I, too, am a dreamer.
Subject: Re: Imagine the America you want to live in #2
Thanks, JoeF, Kimber, Daniyah, Nurse Ratched, and David for sharing your thoughts. This thread is intended for people to discuss and learn and I hope that people will continue to do so, inshallah. There are no "wrong answers" here. It's just a place for us to get to know each other.Subject: Re: Imagine the America you want to live in #2
Happened across the site and discussion. More of this sort of open discussion among a diverse population would make this a better country. I am a middle aged WASP living in the South and while I have an opportunity to meet and converse with tourists from a variety of backgrounds in my "job", this forum and more like can offer much in the way of improving understanding for all, and thereby a better America.The America where I want to reside would have much more emphasis on education as a value in itself and tolerance (even acceptance, with luck) of diversity and of this sort of exchange of experiences.