Culturally conditioned racism is not just a white issue. I have experienced cultural racism from black, asian, hispanic cultures and from those of other religions ... but you made me ponder and I guess I have dealt with responses such as your friend's by always asking, "What do you mean?" Because I am truly curious what compelled his statement... my response has elicited fuller conversations and more often his type of response would be then be viewed as culturally conditioned statement... more of a selfish lack of desire to share our bounties.. which is a perfect seque into your idea of conversationally placing him into the fleeing person's footsteps... very thoughtful post, made me think
Hi Kathryn, Thank you for that very thoughtful response. The idea of asking “what do you mean?” is a good, non-confrontational way of getting the conversation started. That is the goal here, to not cause defensiveness on either side. Thank you for sharing your ideas; it helps!
Culturally conditioned racism is not just a white issue. I have experienced cultural racism from black, asian, hispanic cultures and from those of other religions ... but you made me ponder and I guess I have dealt with responses such as your friend's by always asking, "What do you mean?" Because I am truly curious what compelled his statement... my response has elicited fuller conversations and more often his type of response would be then be viewed as culturally conditioned statement... more of a selfish lack of desire to share our bounties.. which is a perfect seque into your idea of conversationally placing him into the fleeing person's footsteps... very thoughtful post, made me think
Hi Kathryn, Thank you for that very thoughtful response. The idea of asking “what do you mean?” is a good, non-confrontational way of getting the conversation started. That is the goal here, to not cause defensiveness on either side. Thank you for sharing your ideas; it helps!