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Re: Great post...
b2008, my short answer is 'No'...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 8, 2008 at 6:34 PM
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Corbin
I'm not sure it's racism in our sense of the word...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 8, 2008 at 6:33 PM
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Wiley
It is that sometimes...And don't work too hard, you hear?
posted by
Nautikos
on January 8, 2008 at 6:31 PM
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Re: It's not a homogenous world.
Dunno, Ann. But whatever freakish things we do now, we don't usually consume our freaks in hope of getting rich, though we might exhibit them in circuses...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 8, 2008 at 6:30 PM
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Re: Wow. You'd think in this day and age that wouldn't be happening.
strat, poverty and hunger are factors. But that still doesn't explain how their supertitions take these forms. I think these people's culture has simply not yet managed to overcome what appears to be a very deep-seated human trait - the fear of and hostility towards those who are different.
posted by
Nautikos
on January 8, 2008 at 6:26 PM
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Re: Hi Nautikos
Thanks, mneme! I find it just revolting...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 8, 2008 at 6:17 PM
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Re: So many fear the slightest difference, but this is a new prejudice.
Pat, there's just no end to the possibilities when it comes to weird and disgusting beliefs...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 8, 2008 at 6:16 PM
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Re: I didn't know this Naut, thanks for the info.
You're welcome, Kabu...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 8, 2008 at 6:13 PM
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TAPS
It's enough to make you sick...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 8, 2008 at 6:09 PM
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Offy hon, it is totally disgusting...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 8, 2008 at 6:09 PM
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Great post...
...sometimes it makes you wonder how or why people rebuke those who are different. What a world. Is there any hope that we can ever come together?
posted by
b2008
on January 8, 2008 at 6:13 AM
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Hmmm???
What a mutated form of racism.........
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on January 8, 2008 at 6:09 AM
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Nautikos
It's a sad sick world and I never get a chance to read Macleans 'cuz Kabuiepie keeps me working. GReat post my friend.
posted by
WileyJohn
on January 7, 2008 at 8:26 PM
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posted by
afzal50
on January 7, 2008 at 5:31 PM
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It's not a homogenous world.
I wonder what they consider freakish about us but which we consider quite normal.
posted by
Ann_Onimous
on January 7, 2008 at 4:15 PM
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Wow. You'd think in this day and age that wouldn't be happening.
But poverty and hunger do a lot of things -- most of them bad. And wars are generally started through population pressure morethan anything else. Scary.
posted by
strat
on January 7, 2008 at 1:08 PM
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Hi Nautikos
How sad, and doesn't it show how wide is the gap between worlds. I also agree with Taps, inasmuch the way people are treated can shape - or mishape - the way they develop. Good post.
posted by
mneme
on January 7, 2008 at 1:03 PM
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So many fear the slightest difference, but this is a new prejudice.
I think I read somewhere that some cultures feared twins in the same way. Weird.
posted by
Pat_B
on January 7, 2008 at 11:47 AM
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I didn't know this Naut, thanks for the info.
posted by
Kabu
on January 7, 2008 at 11:14 AM
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Nautikos
Even here in the US, albinos don't have it all that easy. People stare, ask stupid questions, make comments. One that I know has been a fighter (physical) all of his life struggling to prove his self-worth. This has caused him to have a nasty attitude, several arrests, jail time, five different wives, eleven children (all of normal characteristics), many different jobs, often fired for being hard to get along with. No one wants to be treated like a freak.
posted by
TAPS.
on January 7, 2008 at 10:47 AM
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I find it interesting and at the same time very disgusting...how ignorant...
posted by
Offy
on January 7, 2008 at 10:25 AM
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