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My thoughts from Tuesday class:

All I know is subculture. I do not define myself in terms of geography or ehnicity. Is that enough? And if the culture I follow isn't the dominant culture, am I recoginized? I am a treated like some lesser being? A cultural minority, to go to extremes (perhaps)? When do we define a minority and majority? And how can we stand any of the awful things we do to each other based on... on anything, really. How do we stand it? Why can't we just... chill with each other? Not to an extreme degree (ha ha, I read science fiction, I can imagine what will happen), but just an overall sense of "Oh hello, that's different, but as long as you're not hurting yourself/others senselessly, then that's fine". Is it because we still have the instinct to fight for resources hardwired in us, to chase off what could harm whatever equilibrium we've created? How did we get so many mental and emotional (since we've already talked a little about cultural) permutations from one little idea we like to call humanity?