One of the things I was told as I was raised, and even as an adult, was that "those people" have a different culture. Those people think differently. That's not what those people do. They do it differently.
I always found it fascinating because it was usually in reference to someone of another race. It's black people, oriental people, even Indian people. I tried not to teach that to our children, but they picked it up anyways.
I've been told that certain groups don't care how they look in a bathing suit or just in general. I've found that to be very untrue. What I've learned over the years is that people are just people. Yes, they have different attitudes shaped by who they were raised with and what environment they lived in, but all in all, people are people and they have different drivers and different decision-making processes, and yes, different cultures.
But I don't believe that it's racial. It seems racial because that's what we see with our eyes. But then we see a white guy dressing as a rap artist and trying to talk like he's from the Bronx in New York, when he's actually from southern Georgia.
It's a choice that he's making, and people that want to change their lives are choosing either to change or not to change based on difficulty and availability and all that. I just think it's sad that so many people buy into the separation of us as different cultures and races.
We're all just people, people trying to make it.
People loved by God.
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