Hello Bj”rn.

21 Nov 06 14:50, you wrote to me:


 BF>>> I think the society will be the worst. We have difficulties with
 BF>>> things like this. We tend to look down on everything that isn't
 BF>>> "normal".


 JS>>      But what is "normal"? How many people does it
take to decide
 JS>> what "normal" is? In this scenario the twins didn't
have a say in
 JS>> the color of their skin. Actually they are who they are and not
 JS>> what they are. Maybe I am abbynormal but I try to look beyond a
 JS>> person's color or nationality. Good and bad comes in all colors.

 BF> Sure but since it only happends once in a million it can't be counted
 BF> as normal.

     That is the problem. People look at someone, see a difference and
then automatically consider that difference as an abnormality.

 JS>>      As you say the surrounding society would be more to blame
 JS>> for either of the twins aquiring a bad attitude. People are quick
 JS>> to notice if someone is 'different' be it in color or speech or
 JS>> handicap or sometimes nationality. People are also quick to think
 JS>> that that difference equates to something bad or not as good.

 BF> I heard on the news that female soldiers still, right now, are being
 BF> discriminated by the boys. One had a boys genitals in her face when
 BF> she woke up. Will stupidity never end?


    Not in our lifetime. It's too easy to think of one's self and and not
others. To equate normality with thyself and consider anyone that deviates
from that percieved norm as deficient in some way.


 JS>>     Many years ago we lived in a neighborhood in Minneapolis
 JS>> (Population: 200K at the time) where we were the only white
 JS>> family for about a half mile. I tried to treat my neighbors as
 JS>> people instead of as black people. I kept color out of the
 JS>> equation and I think that they respected that as I had very
 JS>> little trouble with my neighbors.

 BF> I have worked with several immigrants and have never had any bad
 BF> experience either.


     I think it depends on how one looks at others. If one looks at
someone. What do they see first? Color? Race? Nationality? Gender?
Handicap? The problem will exist until we can see who they are instead
of what they are or what they look like.

 BF> ---

Jeff

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