One thing is for certain, no matter who you are, no matter your race, sex, religion (or lack thereof) or place of origin, we all enter this world helpless and incapable of living on our own. Quite frankly, race is a construct that we have created and it is never a pure science. We have names for every person’s race, but I am certain that this classification is of no use to humankind. We strain to classify one as Afro, African, Anglo, Hispanic, Eastern European, or Asian or any complex combination of these. But genetically speaking, we are all the same. Some humans have taken extreme positions about race that insult the thinking intelligent population. Assertions by white supremacists offend most of us but we have to be cognizant of the origins of such ideas. They have no basis in science or fact. Advanced people must acknowledge our essential sameness. I think almost all of us will agree this is true, no matter how we have been influenced throughout our American history. At some point in life, we have to awaken and cast off these notions. Certainly, we have geographical origins we recognize, and long histories of human development in these locations, languages, religious ideology, political ideology, et cetera. To be sure we have many cultural differences and we have developed highly sophisticated sciences to describe and understand the human race. Anthropology, sociology, psychology assist us in making generalities about humans. Broadly speaking, we have humanities that evaluate and analyze cultural facts subjectively and social sciences which analyze the relationships of humans within communities. It is no wonder that we develop attitudes concerning our differences since we have made such scientific studies of our kind.
Then there is our time period. The forties, the fifties, sixties, seventies and so on. And our most recent designations for generations. We have to be careful with this information. It can offer insight, but I would never want to lump someone into the “narrative” of a time period or generation. We must have a genuine interaction with people. And it something that is sorely missing in our day the way people have stopped conversation and substitute messaging and texting! Or reading from a post that someone has made. Many things need to be discussed!
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