21.2.12

A bit of a rant, here. Nothing more.

Aha, as an earlier conversation had provoked my mind to begin the sort of "thinking" phase, I will decide to rant on for as much as I like, and you all get to see it. Now, xenophobia. What some would call a blessing to prevent harmful change, and what others call a tumor to prevent helpful change. There aren't many sides of this argument, other than the base two. The ones that are the xenophobes and are biased with their fear of change and most/all things foreign, and those who are not xenophobes who are arguing the need for foreign contact. I am honestly neutral whenever it comes to this, though I do say that xenophobia is something that should be regarded as a curse in today's society. Nothing good comes from the senseless fear and disparage being harboured by one's inability to want to even try to cope with someone of a different sort of nationality or gender or even descent. Xenophobia is a tumor, and the thought process of one that has any sort of xenophobia is one that I can't understand. I just don't see how anyone would be able to hate things that are different than them. Though, I feel the same thing about the entire American Civil Rights problem that is still being fought today. I just don't get it.

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  1. I have similar qualms every time I look at the relations between Serbians and Bosniaks and the Iranians and Kurds.

    From such like cultures, similar origins, and comparable means, how can such hate spring up between well-meaning people?

    I suppose it's for this reason that I believe any Government's chief goal should be observing Minority Rights while allowing Majority Rule.
    ...But that's a whole 'nother can of worms, and I won't open it in the form of a comment.

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