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Originally Posted by fodigg
What about positive discrimination? Celebrating cultural differences? Biological differences (e.g., professional athletes, models)? All this talk of "discrimination" often leaves out the clarifying term "negative". Some forms of discrimination are good (e.g., "fire is hot!").
For example, when my girlfriend came to the US from the philippines, should she have attempted to blend in entirely or was she correct to be proud of her heritage even as she integrated with US culture?
(Note: I am not saying "positive stereotyping", which is different and often just as damaging as "negative stereotyping".)
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Even labelling for the purpose of praise is needlessly seperating people.
How do those people feel that are "normal" (or "not different") because they don't get special parades and celebrations.
That is still discrimination.
Culturally... interesting. I was thinking soley about skin colour and sexuality when making my prior comments. There is indeed a wealth of wonderful cultures in the world (some things are still wrong though in some cultures). In a perfect world those could be expressed with being tied to skin colour which is obviously a common cause for discrimination.
You could obviously still label people by their occupation, in that you could see someone and think he's a cop, a builder, a banker etc. Some things NEED labels/names. But to differentiate things that don't
need to be distinguished from other people is wrong.
Take pride in your culture but only if you can do so by sharing it with the world, meaing don't isolate yourself through it.
) to do the same to the Star Wars universe. Sexuality is merely percieved differently. I have a feeling that it is much the same as most medieval or classical concepts; it is not so much, "do you like guys or girls?" but, "are you sexual or not?" A Roman would never see himself as a gay pedophile. Those concepts did not exist until modern times. He would have merely been "sexual." This debate is starting to bring me back to one of my classes, Fringes of the Middle Ages. In that class, I constantly argued against anachronistic labels of people, because a) they wouldn't have made sense to the groups being labeled; and b) it is therefore a terrible way to catergorize, because those words are so loaded with modern preconceptions and connotations which did not exist in those times, and likewise, do not exist in Star Wars.
