Why most humans can't see and feel beyond our birth inheritance?
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Anonymous
| Why are most people are mentally stuck on what they are born with, their race, religion, nationality and class? We are thinking, learning, feeling, evolving beings, why can't most move past all that? Ones who do, where their enlightenment comes from? Within or outside? |
Anonymous
| Where are you from? Really from? |
Anonymous
| While weed is legal in many states, you may want to consider using less. |
Anonymous
Where are you from? Always stuck on people's birth place, birth race, birth religion, birth class while ignoring the real question? |
Anonymous
Isn't it sad that weed is seen as the only mean to reach enlightenment? |
Anonymous
| um, it's their frame of reference? |
Anonymous
| Because it informs the lens through which we see the world. |
Anonymous
This. Because they learned from and were changed by the social structure around those facts of their origin. |
Anonymous
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If you go over to other forums, people are trying to make sure their kids keep going to church, or study the right thing, or go to the right college or practice the right sport. There's not much scope to explore other views if kids obey these kind of parents. They have to be a rebel to live outside this framework.
It's interesting to see the experience of swapped at birth babies. There was one man on youtube who was so proud to be an Irish Catholic through and through. DNA results after his death showed he was actually Jewish and of Eastern European descent, and got swapped with another baby in the nursery. |
Anonymous
This. |
Anonymous
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Because they haven't been forced to integrate into different culture and societies. I was born in one country, then moved around to various others because of my parents' work. I went to neighborhood schools, or international schools, and in the latter, there was a very representative swathe of various cultures.
I've now lived in the USA longer than I've lived in my country of birth or any of the others. It's made me very flexible, and better able to understand other people's viewpoints. I think it's much harder to achieve that if you spend your entire life living in one place with the same people, but I do believe that everyone is capable of stretching and giving the benefit of the doubt to humans who don't look or act like them. This is why populists who fan the flames of nationalism and intolerance are the worst! They deliberately exploit people's most tribal instincts. |
Anonymous
| I love how this website always first has snarky answers that attack the integrity, sanity, morality, dubious curiosity (BYOB!) or normalcy of the poster. I think OP asked an excellent question. If anything, the responses show the small minds he is asking about to begin with. |
Anonymous
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Any kind of genetically-based cultural stuff is a big red flag for me. With total respect for the undeniable fact that social structures make a lot of real consequences for these things unavoidable. But I mean people voluntarily claiming stuff. Family traditions are fine but any reclaiming/claiming of anything not directly passed down I’m not in for.
I have mixed feelings about birthright citizenship too. I think we should have to opt in, but I appreciate the practicality of it. |
Anonymous
I agree. |
Anonymous
Reading your post makes me wonder if I have dementia. I literally don’t understand any of your points. |