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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (207564)	11/3/2006 3:19:42 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) of 281500

When dog people see cat people, they start barking at them, the same as dogs see cats and start barking at them. Though they'll bark at each other too, but in a different way. <A lot of research has shown that people favor those who literally look similar to themselves. Skin color is perhaps the ultimate dissimilarity indicator. The question is the degree to which a person is susceptible to this influence and how one reacts to it. > Same with different races and other differences. Jocks bark at geeks. Women bark at men. Jihad barks at infidels. Slobs bark at suits. Cat people make themselves scarce - they don't like all the barking. It's those who see themselves as powerful who do the barking [another corollary just developed in wondering why I said who barked at whom]. Okay, maybe I'm stretching an analogy. Personally, I think skin colour is over-rated and it's not skin colour so much as dress, behaviour, demeanour, speech, and visage which people react too, which is correlated with skin colour, so people mistakenly think of racism when it's really cultural reactions. Mqurice

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