Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/18

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Subject: RE: [Leica] FSA site
From: Jeff Spirer <jeffs@hyperreal.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 07:24:43 -0800

At 08:24 AM 2/18/00 -0500, Austin Franklin wrote:

>[Austin] What an amazing statement.  Can you name any country that treats
>outsiders more 'equally' than the US?

For people with dark skin, most countries in the so-called "Third World."

>Parts of other countries treat you
>somewhat 'equally' because you have money to spend (or treat you nice, but
>charge you more...), but if you lived there, you would see the differential
>biases.  It's human nature to treat people who 'look' like you more equally
>than people who are 'different'.

And that is why your statement is true mostly for people with white skin, 
not for everyone.  There's a lot more out there than just white people.








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