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Posted on 5/13/21 at 9:09 am to Shexter
This post was edited on 5/13/21 at 9:12 am
Posted on 5/13/21 at 9:12 am to Mike da Tigah
Your meaning is clear enough, even if the details are a little rough.
Instead of the Christmas present wrapping paper analogy, I prefer the old adage, “you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover.”
It’s silly to think that we don’t all view the world through our own discriminating lens. Our visual cortex actually functions that way, looking for recognizable patterns that can be either useful or harmful to us.
Other people pose a special challenge, with lots of opportunity and also lots of potential problems or outright harm. If they are different than ourselves, the caution is understandable.
We have done a pretty good job in our society of teaching ourselves to be patient and accepting of people who are different than ourselves. We should be proud of our achievements.
Nevertheless, whether it be skin color, or language, or clothing styles, or hair styles, or whatever, we will always have preconceived notions which must be muted while we patiently look a little deeper, and see what’s in the book before judging it totally by it’s cover.
Instead of the Christmas present wrapping paper analogy, I prefer the old adage, “you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover.”
It’s silly to think that we don’t all view the world through our own discriminating lens. Our visual cortex actually functions that way, looking for recognizable patterns that can be either useful or harmful to us.
Other people pose a special challenge, with lots of opportunity and also lots of potential problems or outright harm. If they are different than ourselves, the caution is understandable.
We have done a pretty good job in our society of teaching ourselves to be patient and accepting of people who are different than ourselves. We should be proud of our achievements.
Nevertheless, whether it be skin color, or language, or clothing styles, or hair styles, or whatever, we will always have preconceived notions which must be muted while we patiently look a little deeper, and see what’s in the book before judging it totally by it’s cover.
Posted on 5/13/21 at 9:12 am to Mike da Tigah
Double post
This post was edited on 5/13/21 at 9:14 am
Posted on 5/13/21 at 9:23 am to Jimbeaux
My 4 year old daughter had no idea what a "black" person was ... until Black History Month this year
In the ongoing effort to create unity and inclusion by promoting all of the things that make black people special, my daughter has learned that the color of a person's skin makes them different in some way
In the ongoing effort to create unity and inclusion by promoting all of the things that make black people special, my daughter has learned that the color of a person's skin makes them different in some way
Posted on 5/13/21 at 9:30 am to Mike da Tigah
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yet as we get older, we care very little enough to find out what is on the inside of a person and who they are, but only what the wrapping paper is and what kind of box it is that is wrapped
We do? Or is it that as we get older we’ve opened a lot of presents. Some more than others. We’ve learned how to discern what they are by how they are shaped, how they feel, how they sound.
We look at the wrapping and can get a pretty good idea of where they came from.
Some papers are beautifully wrapped, with ribbons and bows and ornate tags.
Some are wrapped in plain paper, others in the funny papers (that was always my favourite)
Some of the more maudlin come wrapped in the obituaries.
Some in the bag they came from at the store, and their deliverer reeking of rotgut and BO.
As you open more packages you learn a lot about them. Some are big and single, some come in a set.
And hell, you get good at guessing, and when you are wrong it’s usually either a welcome surprise or a big disappointment. But that’s because it’s outside the norm you’ve seen time and time again.
The exception proves the rule, and I’m quoting now, no clue who, but a smarter man than I.
“You can’t judge a book by its cover, but you can get a pretty good idea by reading the jacket.”
This post was edited on 5/13/21 at 9:34 am
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