We are the same. I had such a hard time understanding this specific issue. I'm neither white nor black. Coming from a 3rd world country we had different kinds of issues there. Coming to America, this issue wasn't something I really didn't pay attention.
So it was very hard for me to empathize on weight of words. Nor defunding police is something I've seen first hand the consequences of underpaid police.
I was called a racist for not empathizing to the cause. oh well. 🤷♂️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♂️
The issue with America, is putting too much labels on things. I envision a world, where you get labelled by your name and not skin color or heritage. if thats too hard. maybe ID #s
I'm from Germany and I've always found it weird how much emphasis North-Americans put on words. You can also see it a lot with "swearwords"; where in Germany we don't mind saying a word in a sentence like "You shouldn't use X" or "The word X has many negative connotations", in America there seems to be no separation between that and actually using the word itself.
But I also think that, in general, Europe has a much stronger cultural tendency to value intention over vocabulary.
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We are the same. I had such a hard time understanding this specific issue. I'm neither white nor black. Coming from a 3rd world country we had different kinds of issues there. Coming to America, this issue wasn't something I really didn't pay attention.
So it was very hard for me to empathize on weight of words. Nor defunding police is something I've seen first hand the consequences of underpaid police.
I was called a racist for not empathizing to the cause. oh well. 🤷♂️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♂️
The issue with America, is putting too much labels on things. I envision a world, where you get labelled by your name and not skin color or heritage. if thats too hard. maybe ID #s
I'm from Germany and I've always found it weird how much emphasis North-Americans put on words. You can also see it a lot with "swearwords"; where in Germany we don't mind saying a word in a sentence like "You shouldn't use X" or "The word X has many negative connotations", in America there seems to be no separation between that and actually using the word itself.
But I also think that, in general, Europe has a much stronger cultural tendency to value intention over vocabulary.