May 15, 2003

[~] yeahh...i wrote another entry today. [~]

//shal.low
how worth while can my personal-existance be if i base my happiness on how much attention i'm getting at any given moment? it's really lame if you ask me...but, it's me. and it sucks. hard.

i don't know when i started being an attention whore...but, i am one nonetheless.

//sol.u.tion_to_racism+prejudice
so...anthropology, we're talking about what is whiteness? blackness? the other -nesses? and how to solve this problem.

my reasoning and solution to the problem of racial misidentification:
reasoning: no one asian person represents all asians. no one black person represents all black people. no one white person represents all white people.

solution: because no one _____ person represents all ______ people, a racial prejudice projects an inaccurate picture of the individual, since we know not what circumstances encompass the individuals lifeways. instead of separating people by phenotype, separate people individually, person by person.

if the world were to adopt that way of thought, the problem of racism would be eradicated, and hatred would be bred from personal preference, rather than personal prejudice...

...but, currently it is no more than some radical idea, since a realistic modern cultural adoptation of such thought seems almost impossible...almost...

there is always hope.

it is the definitions of whiteness, blackness, asianness, latinoness that breeds racism, and racist practices worldwide.

seriously, once in your life, take a course in cultural anthropology, it will make you think about the world more...it will enlighten you.

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