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Originally Posted by Azure
Whats your point?
You live and work amongst them, something many of us don't. Doesn't that put you in a different situation then someone who is only around people identical to them?
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In a sense it does, because I realize they aren't any different from me. I'm not afraid or intimdated by them. There is no stigma of mystery surrounding them with me.
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Originally Posted by Azure
Let me guess, you are part of a ethnic minority as well?
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Not sure why you would ask that, or why that would make a difference, but I'm as WASPy as you can get.
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Thanks for proving my point. Just because some of us cannot walk into a crowd and strike up a conversation with someone we do not know...like the cashier for example in Transplants story...we have screwed up values and have a habit of forming preconceptions about other people.
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What point did I prove if, in your own words:
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I went to school with a guy that was very much a part of an ethnic minority. I took me a few years before I was able to become enough 'friend' that I would go to his house, play video games or go to movies with him.
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it took you YEARS to get comfortable enough to play video games or go to a movie with a minority?
I can't figure out how that could be considered representative of most 'white people'. Sounds more like the thinking of someone who would believe that 'races' shouldn't mix. Gotta keep the bloodlines pure.