In our ECS seminar today, we participated in an activity regarding racism and the stereotypical way that we subconsciously put people into boxes based on their skin colour, eye shape, hair texture, etc. I highly recommend you try it for yourself here.
After sorting the pictures, you have a chance to click on each individual and learn how they self identify. As I was clicking through these pictures, one of the write ups really took me aback. It said: “Self identifies as: Human.” How eloquent and beautiful.
Just think how different our society would be if we stopped judging people and replaced the judgement with the notion that we are all equal in the sense that we are human.
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human human human human human human
Just think about that next time you catch yourself labelling someone. I am human. You are human. Every single person who has ever lived and will ever live on our planet was or is human. We are all the same. So why must we focus on our differences?
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This is an amazing visual! Where did you find it? And yes, we so often spend all of our time focusing on differences – what about sameness? Aren’t we all unique in our own way yet we are all similar in so many ways. Believe in humanity.
Thanks! I actually just googled it. Now I can’t remember what I typed in to find it, though.