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OT: Human Rights Framework 2-May-2010 At 10:36:42 PM Hendo

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On 2/05/2010 dalai wrote:
>Sorry Hendo - but I too am saddened by your attempts to explain your racist
>views

I am in part playing devil's advocate here. I have friends from many different nationalities etc. I can assure you that I am not a hating racist.

It just seems to me that racism, discrimination and these sorts of things are often blanketed as wrong when it is clear to me that this mindset doesn't really work and is unhelpful because it stops people really thinking about it critically and the grey levels which are there and important.

>which only deepen the sad hole you are in.

I'm sure there are many, many people around the world who are happy just living in their own community and don't view it as a sad hole, but could be rather proud of it, isolated as it might be. Can you not accept that some people might have a different point of view than you on this?

>How about accommodate and embrace diversity? How about learning a few
>words of another language? A few words in broken Mandarin or Cantonese
>would have made a wonderful connection with the waitress rather than such
>an awkward moment.

Sure, but what about the joy of having a good conversation with a waiter than can speak english and making a good friend. There are choices and options. What if I value this more than a few broken words. I might be able to learn a few words of some languages but I can't learn every language going around. I would actually like to learn another language but haven't found the right circumstances to do it. I imagine it would allow me to think about things slightly differently. I do wonder how babies or deaf people think aloud in their mind, that would be even more different.

>The world truely is a melting pot - the bigotted, one race per country
>world is fortunately a thing of the past.

Do you really think countries with predominately one or only a few races is wrong? A certain level of isolation is how different cultures get their diversity that you seem to embrace. If you stir the pot too fast it will all become the same. To me some mixing is fine and so is placing some upper limits.