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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Ilaine who wrote (34717)4/14/1999 8:11:00 AM
From: nihil  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
I am really distressed by your prejudice. I know it's based on experience, but that's one terrible problem about practicing law. You meet so many crooks and chiselers. Perhaps you don't meet enough middle eastern people in non-legal and non-shopping venues. When I was young, I prided my self as being completely unprejudiced and a soldier in the war for equality. I ran serious risks in the battle for racial justice. But there was a single national group I despised because of an injury one of them had done to me from which I generalized. Ashamed of myself, I tried to desensitize myself. Read about them. Tried to learn some language. Sought out and befriended students from the group (I was still in school). Later fell in love briefly with one girl of the group (it didn't last but we parted friends). Today perhaps my best friend is a member of the group -- a man of noble spirit and true learning, and a pious, observant worshipper of the religion of his sect (which I consider total nonsense). He admires me and says I am his sensei and guru. I would have missed knowing him enormously. I had to change long years before I could even talk to him. I am very glad I did.
With respect to middle easterners, three of my closest professional associates (and one of my most successful Ph.D. advisees) were born in Egypt (I guess they count as middle easterners). One of them, a well known sociologist, is a man of remarkable decency. The others are economists and mathematicians, so allowances must be made. They are honest and honorable, but are sometimes so shrewd in business that their dealings are hardly to be understand by us Franks. They see no harm in asking for concessions. I am sure it is experiential and cultural. I like and trust them very much.
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