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06-20-2012, 09:15 PM | #1 |
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06-20-2012, 10:16 PM | #2 |
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06-22-2012, 09:21 PM | #5 |
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Overall, not really....I see things pretty differently then from both my parents particularly my maternal side. I'm closer to the views of my paternal side since there's a little more moderation there but not even a hundred percent exact there either.
Oddly enough though I never feel like an outsider in my family and alot of this has to do with me being the only offspring. We seem to thrive on fervernt disagreements, and firey arguments have always been a norm in addition to secretly wishing the other side agrees or conforms. Utlimately though I take people as I see them. However my parents and related elders grew up in a different world and time, had different experiences, but also different wiring is a factor...I'm definitely not wired like them...I have a very strong urge from my wiring to go against the grain and challenge things and not display a herd mentality. |
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06-22-2012, 09:22 PM | #6 |
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Lack of, I guess yes. It can go either ways. It was still inherited in my case as well. Religion/philosophy might be one area where we are different. I get the feeling that she believes in something. But she's never really talked much about it. I was always free to be my questioning, empirically-based Atheist self. It was actually supported. She always had the sense to be a bit more open minded about religion/respect towards different views. And she was also very grounded in reality/science, regardless of her views. I've inherited a sort of stubbornness to my own beliefs, yet a tolerance towards others, if I feel that objective respect is warranted. Meh. I think that's the best way to sum it up.
Our home was pretty ubiquitous and didn't cater to prejudice. What I was taught in homeschooling and encouraged to find interests in outside of school is a good indication of that. We read Jewish holocaust novels, the MLK speech/general Afram history, Hamlet, general world history since prehistory, everything from the Diet of Worms to Animism was discussed. Everything from Sarafina to Man in the Iron Mask (Richard Chamberlain) was watched. I learned French and Spanish. No particular people was blamed for any one event. Nor was that ever in my mind even. I even read Mein Kampf on my own and got into other WWII stuff(All I saw was Hitler's love of err...well what I thought were his people. Not so sure now with that DNA test.) I thought it was really interesting. Mind boggling. But very interesting. I never found fault with the German people or nationalism on a basic level...Just individuals. No one was stigmatized as cheap, expensive, lazy, racist etc etc. Shite happened. Deal with it. Welcome to the world. This is history. Well that's how I learned, anyways. I came to my own conclusions. I wasn't taught that I should identity as some debilitated victim who's history had been stolen...Not with tales like Mauritius and Scybale and other ancient or modern tales of Africans being discovered by my childish eyes. Meh. I'm rambling. I guess the answer to the question is "No". |
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06-22-2012, 09:28 PM | #7 |
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06-22-2012, 09:41 PM | #8 |
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I guess it is a little different for me, because i lived in many different countries until my teens, so no i did not grow up disliking people due to race or otherwise, but my mother hated her heritage, due to what happened to her when she was young, which i noticed when growing up and she told me later. However, i learned to embrace it along with its incredible history. Needless to say, when i returned to the states, that is when i learned the racial clues, and stereotypes that comes with it, and i just adapted to the situation, which was hard to say the least.
P.S. My only contention is with religion getting involved in politics, in my eyes they are separate entities, and they definitely should not mix. |
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06-22-2012, 09:46 PM | #9 |
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No, not really.
My parents never told me that certain people are bad or undesirable. I never heard my parents say anything bad about a person's race, maybe toward African Americans during the 1992 L.A. riots, but they never told me that ALL African Americans are bad and that I couldn't play with them. |
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06-22-2012, 10:00 PM | #10 |
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06-23-2012, 12:29 AM | #12 |
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06-23-2012, 12:44 AM | #13 |
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No. My dad wasn't really racially prejudiced to begin with. He thought some Yankees were arrogant and have aggressive personalities. Well that's the truth, LOL. My mom could say something negative about every ethnic group including her own ancestral ones, but she wasn't racially or ethnically prejudiced towards particular groups.
The people who had more traditional racist tendencies were my grandmothers on both sides. Neither of them tried to instill this into me, though. It was just my observation on them after I was old enough to evaluate this. No, I would say most of my prejudice comes from my own personal experiences and observations in the modern post-60's era. Those are mainly culture and class biases, not racial. I don't believe that certain races are physiologically good or bad. |
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06-23-2012, 02:19 AM | #14 |
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No. My dad wasn't really racially prejudiced to begin with. He thought some Yankees were arrogant and have aggressive personalities. Well that's the truth, LOL. My mom could say something negative about every ethnic group including her own ancestral ones, but she wasn't racially or ethnically prejudiced towards particular groups. |
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