A teacher who teaches in a classroom of "mixed" ethnicity (what group of people isn't mixed, I know) demands that all kids with "Un-American" names must get used to the idea that they are American now and thus change their names (Jesus, Mika, Flora, etc.) to proper American names.
Is the teacher racist? She doesn't object to the children's skin color, just their "Un-American" names.
A boss tells an African American employee that she needs to start dressing more "American". Is the boss racist? He isn't firing her because she is black. Merely asking her to change her wardrobe into something he is more comfortable with, something more of his culture.
These are real stories of people whom I knew. I start out with the stories because, I feel, they demonstrated my point. I think the reason why people are homophobic and racist is because they hate/fear other cultures. I don't think it is the color of the skin or the sexual orientation that makes people hate other people, I think it is any difference that tries to "penetrate their" culture. A lot of racists I know, and probably you know, don't hate African American's who act like their culture. How many times do people complain about people of other cultures; hats, clothes, speech/terms, etc. Also, it has been my experience, and perhaps yours to, that homophobes don't just have a problem with gays, they generally have problems with everyone who clashes with their culture. In my opinion people don't get hung up on the actual color thing so much. They may identify the color with different cultures and then hate the color thing, but is isn't the skin color alone that makes them hate, IMO.
History is absolutely filled with people in vastly different circumstances who all go out and do the same thing, explore other regions with other peoples and what do they do? They immediately begin to tear down the native culture and bring in their culture, as dramatically as possible. Once the natives accepted their culture the contempt sunk dramatically, and in some cases the natives even went on to have high-ranking jobs and sometimes even political offices, once they accepted the culture. The pattern of finding other peoples and then destroying their culture to put in our culture is, in my opinion, undeniably consistent throughout all history.
Many of the people whom I have spoken to about this idea have rejected it initially and then later said that after they thought about it and saw it in action they agreed. Comment on the idea now, but if you disagree keep it in mind and think about it the next time you see a similar situation-taking place. You may still disagree, but just think about it.
What I am driving at is differences that don't hurt anybody, have no victims, are feared by human kind anyway. I suppose it's a fear of change. Our culture contains everything we have been comfortable with and when someone has a different culture, perhaps we may feel uncomfortable and even a little defensive, and sometimes aggressive. I don't know, I'm no psychologist.
What I am mostly driving at here is if you don't like an entire group of people, perhaps you should examine why. I am not and have never considered myself a homosexual but I feel that homosexuality is just yet another thing that our culture has yet to get comfortable with. Nothing more than that. No more immoral then the Blacks, Jews, etc. Culture is ever changing and some people don't adjust well, that's the way I see it. It is my contention that it matters not who you sleep with, and I think telling other grown people who they can and cannot sleep with or get married to is incredibly arrogant. Who gives you the right to tell others who to get married to? God? Well I don't think God did. Can you prove that he did? No more than I can prove it. So then we are both equal, we cancel each other out. Then live and let live. Besides, if Gays want to live their life in "sin", why not let them? If you believe it is evil, then be content with the idea they are going to hell. What do you care? God can take care of itself. In my opinion it's only the culture thing again. What, has homosexuality been linked to crime? How does it hurt you AT ALL?
Homosexuality hurts no one. To say it is unnatural is just not true, IMO. Homosexuality occurs in nature. To say it is an improper way to have sex implies that you know the proper way (a tad arrogant) and just by having "abnormal" sex you are immoral. Well excuse everyone who masturbates, gives or receives blowjobs, hand jobs, or just flat doesn't use the missionary position. That isn't natural, and apparently that is all it takes to get sent to hell, have "weird" sex. (Here is the tour of hell, over there is Hitler, Stalin, Chairman Mao and a guy who had weird sex...)
It is that whole fear of change thing again, in my opinion. Some people want to tell you how to live your life (no drugs, get a high paying job), who to get married to (no same sex marriages, no inter race marriages), what clothes to where ("inappropriate" dress), what to read (porno, or books with "bad ideas", which are often titled anything from "satanic" to "communist", whether or not they share anything in common with those beliefs), what music to listen to (censorship again), when to have sex (no sex before marriage), and even when to go to bed (after all the bible says that those who retire early, can get up early to do God's work, no joke!) to name a few. Once again there is this desire to make everyone conform to YOUR idea of culture.
Whatever culture you have, we share. Rejecting other culture is just denial, all cultures are inner mixed. The sooner people realize this, the happier we shall all be.
Who you have sex with is a non-factor in the goodness of a person, in my opinion. There are two many prying issues for me to try to control activity in other people's beds.
All my opinion, of course.
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