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To: SoothingDave
If people could, by their behavior change their "race," who would choose to be a minority in any country?

I think you would be surprised. I was. I worked with a girl who was in a minority group, and someoe asked her this very question. I believe that the only thing that kept a cat fight starting was the fact that the girl who was the minority had alot of common sense and control. As it was she got her point across that although she was a minority she saw nothing wrong with herself and would stay that way no matter what.

Becky

28,514 posted on 12/06/2002 6:50:31 AM PST by PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain
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To: PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain
If people could, by their behavior change their "race," who would choose to be a minority in any country?

I think you would be surprised. I was. I worked with a girl who was in a minority group, and someoe asked her this very question. I believe that the only thing that kept a cat fight starting was the fact that the girl who was the minority had alot of common sense and control. As it was she got her point across that although she was a minority she saw nothing wrong with herself and would stay that way no matter what.

I was being somewhat cheeky, and I certainly didn't mean to imply that people are or should be ashamed of what they are.

I was saying that if race were completely arbitrary, no rational person would choose a race that was treated as second class. My point being that race is not arbitrary, and that whatever one is born, that is what they are.

SD

28,523 posted on 12/06/2002 7:37:27 AM PST by SoothingDave
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