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To: Rambi who wrote (1380)	9/1/2001 7:55:12 PM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 51729

It does take effort if our first impulse is to reject the alien. I'm inclined to believe that all humans are prejudiced - I think we are hard-wired that way. I know I am. I spend every day working to make my life easier by generalizing. I don't try to figure out if the highway moved during the night. I start my drive the same way everyday, expecting the path will be as I learned it. I have to THINK to cut people slack. Eventually it becomes closer to being habit, but it is not natural any more than talking is natural. We have to be taught tolerance and then work to practice it. If I have a choice between a black and a white clerk, I tend to choose the black one. Why? Because, I'm aware that it is easiest (to me) to choose white. I'm concerned that most people of color, the obese, the unattractive and almost anyone who stands out in one way or another, are likely to receive unconscious negative messages. To live in a world where this isn't happening requires thought and a inhibition of my tendency to act in some way. Perhaps what I meant to say was a that it requires a passivity of action, not necessarily of thought. After all for it to qualify as a "choice" you'd have to at least consider the alternative, even if only briefly. I find it interesting (in a good way!) that you seem to have a different set of critera for friends and another for the world at large. I think my system is largely the same for all people, irrespective of scale (familial, social, local, company). My friends will actually tend to get more grief from me, because I presume to know their mind and what's in their interest!