I'll excuse you this time. Maybe your asteroids are playing up. You can get cream for them.Originally Posted by (>Zero Cool<)
I'll excuse you this time. Maybe your asteroids are playing up. You can get cream for them.Originally Posted by (>Zero Cool<)
The best way to keep a secret:- Tell everyone not to tell anyone.
Originally Posted by bigboab
Xenophobia is a perfectly natural thing.
You are only an arse if you act upon it, ie if you discriminate or otherwise treat people badly because of their gender, the colour of their skin or something else that really doesn't tell you who they are.
Anyone who calls you a bigot, racist, or whatever, purely because you initially think of/react to others in a certain way can go f*** themselves. Some things that we find alien/different/odd will inevitably be percieved as scary, there's a reason for that.
Xenophobia is just one aspect of our survival instinct, it's just like whatever psychological mechanism we have that keeps us from trying to pick up snakes or to pet tigers, for instance.
You can't trust everyone and all that. And the more different from you they are, the harder they are to read, and the more careful you'll be. It's instinct, and sometimes very useful. Our psyches just work this way, partly it's a remnant of how we were in harsher times, but it's still useful, as all of us can't be trusted.
They say that when infants (and possibly adults as well) smell something (truly) unfamiliar, it'll automatically smell bad, this is just an aspect of the same thing.
Last edited by Snee; 06-14-2005 at 02:08 PM.
I would read your reply but your avatar just f*cked up my visionOriginally Posted by SnnY
I make a prejudment about certain people until they prove me wrong.
Usually they don't. However, I treat everyone the same.
I could never say anything bad about certain upstanding folk.
Silly bitch, your weapons cannot harm me. Don't you know who I am? I'm the Juggernaut, Bitchhhh!
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im a big victim of prejudice, while im in school i hate when people call me mexican just cause im hispanic or when they ask you if you speak mexican, man it irritates me when they do that. personally im not prejudice, back in my country my best friend is black and he is like a brother to me
well, do you speak mexican?
Trite and predictable. You may use the argument that it has helped to keep sectarianism alive, but to say that it created bigotry is nonsense.Originally Posted by bigboab
There are denominational schools in loads of places, are they all like the West of Scotland, not that I am aware of.
What about things like the Orange Order, who march thro' Glasgow to revel in their anti-catholicism, are they better than seperate schools, do they foster bigotry less. I think not.
If someone proposed to do a similar thing with anti-practically anything else sentiment then it would be banned.
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