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I remember my best friend in high school. He was not a bigot, but he was very closed minded and afraid of other cultures and customs.
It took me a full month of insults before I could convince him to even walk into a vietnamese pho restaurant with me. Since then he has developed a taste for any wierd food he can find, and before he left for NM with the military was one of our local pho restaurants best customers. I just had to get him into the restaurant so he could see that the food was not scary looking, and was actually quite tastey, and that the owner of the store was not wearing black pajamas. After he realized how wrong he was, he wanted to start trying other things and an openness towards other cultures and ideas came along with it.
All it took was a little soup.
Oh, and MrSelfDestruct: You should have pointed out that the Aryan Nation would be just as quick to euthanize your 'imperfect' friend as the jews, gypsies, etc.
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