To be honest, I do this a lot. I know it is wrong to do it. And I'm trying to stop.
There's an eternal internal struggle in my head. I realize both the reality and the travesty of this nasty yet natural human tendency.
Reality, because for the most part, it is not only outsiders like myself who may typecast individuals of a certain "group," but those insiders in the group itself like for themselves to be identified as separate from others.
Yet travesty, because in everyone's attempt to understand the roots of the world's problem, we all come across a pervasive ironic interface and self realization. We recognize an issue and ask of ourselves "why-is-our-world-so-divided" and then identify that we are the root of the problem in our self-isolation and self-categorization. We are mocking ourselves. If that made sense.
To the part about why. From anthropology... It's Neanderthink to want to group people as part of your ingroup or outgroup. Then, it was for safety and survival, but now for...nothing. It is a vestigial trait. I want to say it's parasitic, because it is the root of many intergroup fighting and such, but how can you claim it as parasitic, when in fact, it adds to the diversity of Life. Life is a complex push-pull phenomena.
Anything goes.
Is conflict bad?
I guess that's a problem that always seems to puzzle me.
Is everyone supposed to mix and become one big human culture?
Is that good?
Are we supposed to preserve our differences?
Homogeneity.
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well for some, we preserve our differences because we are prideful of our differences. haha. its true. im chinese and im proud to be one anywhere. but im not like in-yo-face-im-chinese-and-im-better-than-you.
maybe its better to have our differences so all of our lives have a twist to it and that we lead original lives.
its funny cuz ppl are trying to find others to be in their group to create more unity amongst themselves but it only depends on the person's view if the group is for the good or the bad. like prop 8. you know im against it because i think their reasons are way better than the yes group and because i know i want equality for the other many sexes. but i do understand some points from the yes group like being afraid of change cuz change is pretty scary. We can call the yes group the narrow-minded religuous pricks and we can call the no group the damn dimwitted radicals.
iono if you read jaime's comment on my fb note, but she said, why can't we all be happy for one another, something like that. and i couldn't stop thinking what if everybody agreed to one thing besides respecting one another. i just think that idea is just too ridiculous. so maybe a little hate, a little fire here and there aint too bad.
oh man, i think what i have written might have become off topic. haha.
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