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Originally Posted by Toaster126
Someday, I think everyone is going to have to accept that we are all racist, classist, and sexist... we as human beings like to classify things as we and them, or us and others. It's how we were built - I think there is a limit to what we can condition to be accepting.
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I would agree with you, as an anthropologist... people are the same everywhere.
We all like to divide our worlds into the known and unknown, the safe and the dangerous... no matter what color our skin, what class, or what gender we are. Funny, how our human inability to see universals, is one of our few universals as a species.
But anyway, I don't know if there is a limit on what we can condition to be accepting... I mean, I hope that is the major contribution of my field to popular thought; that is, cultural relativism. Not to expect that people will give up being racist, etc... but that we can become just a little less so, after surrendering some of our long-held knowns, to better understand the unknown Other.
But maybe I am just idealistic.
Still, I think it can be overcome, at least to some degree.