Whats your point of view to this?

Question

Well, I'm just wondering how you people feel about difference? Like White vs. Black, Straights Vs. Gays, etc, ets. Do you think this is right, and u can tolerate difference, or its right to treat pp wrong because of their beliefs and/or customs?

Answer 1

I think the world would be a much better place if people could look past our differences. We're all the same...just because someone's skin is a different color, or they worship a different god than you, or they happen to be attracted to someone of their same sex doesn't make them less of a person. When I look at someone, I don't judge them based on their appearance, or what I know about their private life (which is most likely second or third hand information)...I watch the way they treat other people...That's what matters. Your character.

Answer 2

There is a big difference in having different points of views and being prejudiced. I may not be a Catholic, but I can respect them for their belief in God. Whereas I can not respect someone with no belief system in place. White vs. Black is a prejudice, and it's racism. Racism is wrong no matter what color. I can't respect someone with those views, because it is a view based on fear of the unknown. All people are one race. The human race. Homosexuality is a sexual preference, and it is not of the norm of society. It is also an abomination to God. So how could you respect something that God finds distasteful? While it is not right to treat people wrong, that doesn't mean you have to accept their lifestyle, and it doesn't mean that they can flaunt it in your face knowing your views on it, because that's wrong too. I can tolerate differences within the norms of society,and human interactions, but I can't respect people that don't follow the norm as far as fairness, equality for all, and sexuality. Different Cultures and Customs are a part of this society.

Answer 3

No, it's not right to treat people wrong. What you are asking, I think, is whether there is any justification for being unfair to people on the basis of arbitrary categories. No, there is not. Even where there are moral considerations, such as the people who believe homosexuality is a sin, people need to accept the fact that others do not have the same concept of what is a sin and what is not. As to differences in religion, it is simply good manners to acknowledge that people can and do have different points of view. And as to color differences, that is the least defensible of all: a person does not, as far as we know, get to choose their parents, and therefore being harsh to someone on the basis of an inherited characteristic is obviously unfair.

The one thing I want to point out is that prejudice happens on both sides of these various category dichotomies: some straights are prejudiced against gays, but there are also gays that are prejudiced against straights. Christians and Muslims are both guilty of being unfair, and they are also guilty of being unfair to smaller and less well known groups. (I'm a witch myself, so I know.) And as you must know, there are black racists as well as white ones, not to mention Asian and various other ethnic groups.

Answer 4

Read 'Does Anybody Else Look Like Me?: A Parent's Guide to Raising Multiracial Children' by Donna Jackson Nakazawa. It opened my eyes to the fact that we are all born with the mechanism to judge, compare, and to seek individual and group identities. This mechanism is not a positive one -- the mechanism that seeks to create a 'self' for us (real spiritual practice is all about reducing this self -- the boundaries between self and other). That said, we do have degrees of what this mechanism can do. When it's fed racist, sexist, homophobic, nationalistic, ethnicist, etc. propaganda, the results can be very devastating, of course. So ... the 'way out' which only a SMALL percentage of people actually get is to work on oneself -- to see this mechanism very clearly in ourselves and not to strive to 'be loving towards everyone' or to 'save the world' (ironically, this just creates more of the ego/self). We WILL be more loving and the world WILL be saved if we instead work on reducing our 'self versus other' thoughts and reduce our egos.

Answer 5

bottom up

No, really, its all about yo up bringin'. Like say yo daddy hates them gays. Then he like instills upon yo butt the predisposition of homophobia. Its our society and our culture, dude. It's like so many people have no chance to form their own opinion and sht cause theys been brought up in a society wrought with intollerance and such. Anyways it ain't right, and at least some can see that. The only thing that will change it is time and generations...intollerance is passed down, if not overtly then subliminally. We'll all evolve out of it some day.

Answer 6

I think it's getting out of hand just treat people how you would treat someone regardless, if i get cut off in traffic and the other person is a different race they still get the finger just like everyone else.

Answer 7

Racism not only revolves around the KKK, it revolves around 'People' and 'Animals' and 'Technology'.
It's a sense of difference, a sense of account based on an ethnic.
I don't believe there is a particular culture that is superior over another particular culture.
This is why we think the world is coming to an end

Answer 8

in my neighborhood, unfortunately, all the fighting and rapes, are black men towards whites and Hispanics. I'm not going to lie to you, i am afraid walking my dog at night. i try, honestly, to NOT say "I have to be careful of the blacks", but they are the ones hurting US. I grew up in a very racist family. my dad delivered mail for years, and was jumped harassed and even beaten by blacks. he stuck with it, but was very hateful. when i got older i swore i wouldn't be like him, but, it has turned out, that I do fear black men and have been treated very badly by many. I don't look to be whistled at, or groped...and they, are continually making sexual remarks and doing 'things' . Is it right to treat people wrong because of beliefs and customs? yes, but it is equally wrong to be WHITE and be treated badly because WE are what we are. It works both ways.

Answer 9

If you like the feeling of equality for everybody, move to a college town. It is such a peaceful, great feeling. Nobody thinks there is anything "wrong" with anybody else. Fantastic! Just shows you what education does for a community. It is true.

Answer 10

Would it not be a very unintresting world without difference. All people have differences in customs, food, talents, etc., etc., etc.
Rather than being afraid of difference we need to embrace the best of any group of people to enrichen our own lives.