A Girl Like Me
Thanks to Kelsey I have added the video "A Girl Like Me", which prompted my previous post on The Doll Test, to Exhale for your convenient viewing! As a side note, youtube.com allows you to post videos directly to your blog right from their website. It may be a fun way to spice things up around here anyway.
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Subtle prejudice still goes on - even not so subtle. It's sad that we still have so far to go. Do you think that some of the problem is family attitudes passed down from generation to generation (on both sides - prejudicer & prejudicee)? How about someone being hurt by a particular group of people and by categorizing them by race, gender, etc., develops a prejudice against them? You said in the last post comments "'preconceived notions of inferiority' have been ingrained into the black culture". Do you think that perhaps some of the feelings and attitudes shown by these girls may come from the their own families absorbing those "preconceived notions of inferiority" and re-projecting them on their kids? Would affirmative action and anti-defamation laws for the media (by media I mean what's in/on it, not their company structure) help? I just don't know enough and people are complicated. People can be very exclusive in who they'll allow close to them based on many things - race, color, gender, short, tall, handicapped, clumsy, etc. It's not right and I hope & pray we'll continue in the direction of inclusiveness, not go backward.
I just realized - affirmative action and anti-defamation in the media wouldn't happen - freedom of speech, 1st amendment.
i think attitudes and feelings are definitely passed down in families on each side and absorbed subconsciously. i think it creates the social climate that we live in. it makes us accept things that should be questioned.
every time i go into walmart i have to deal with my subconscious prejudices. sometimes i am shocked at myself, even after all i have learned and how i have worked to overcome them.
we don't like different and are even afraid of it and those in power (the majority and wealthy) make the rules and tell us what is acceptable and what's not.
i just saw a "twilight zone" where this poor girl's face was all bandaged and she was on her 11th treatment to fix her face. she just wanted to belong and not have people scream when they saw her. unfortunately, the treatment didn't work and since she could not have any more treatments she would have to live with those deformed like she was. when they took the bandages off, her face was beautiful. she looked like a model. everyone else (all the normal people) had twisted lips and pig snouts! she was devastated that she couldn't be "normal".
God help us!
thank you colleen that was very insighful and well thought out! :)
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