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Old 08-13-2013, 08:35 AM   #664 (permalink)
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I think there are a lot of people guilty of unconscious pigeon-holeing, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic status. It's probably more prevalent in Western societies, and it's something that needs to be worked on.
Why would you think that? I've never seen anything to suggest that other parts of the world are magically more tolerant. Racism and prejudice are just sort of human nature.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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