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Will we ever see the human being before the sex, ethnic group, or religious affiliation?

Do you think that we, Americans at least, will ever learn to see a person first and foremost? Then only the sex if we are looking to for a mate and the ethnic background or religious affiliation purely for academic study or personal curiosity? I think ridding ourselves of age-bias is simply beyond our capacity at this point in time.

That is my hope. That people will learn to be humans first and most importantly.

I fear it is a doomed hope, especially as long as we keep classifying each other to supposedly make the world a fairer place. Think about the psychological effect of those forms we fill-out where we are forced by our government to classify ourselves? We must pick one category or another, or even write-in our own.

Will we ever over-come these things and see each other first and foremost as a fellow homosapien??

This is a subjective question. Please keep your answers polite and respectful.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    There are universal traits,qualities and attributes which please and comfort one another. The world is a nasty place and life consequently is shrouded in complexity even for the most strong minded resilient of us.

    There is Love, and there the absence of love.

    almost all mainstream faiths preach some form of 'love thy neighbour' message, and mankind , lets face it, is dependent on interaction and co-existence. If we abstain from working,living together - we are at conflict, hence we are at war.

    I guess what I wanted to say was, it is possible to see past gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion race etc - if you look into the eyes of a person and find a soul. Somebody said that even the cruellest person has some 'good' in them, heh.

    consider this scenario, a white supremacist is dying of thirst in a desert, after a falling out with 2 of his white supremacist peers - is left beaten, wounded and is sensing death knocking at his door - that is until, a black sahara dwelling man approaches him , sees not a white man in dire condition, but a human being in serious discomfort. He opens his water bottle and carefuly pours water next to his lips so he can quench his thirst. then he walks off. now see ? what a horrible man he was , drinking the water all by himself lol.

    so you can find a$$holes from all corners of the globe, regardless of colour creed or religion.

    so, Yes - we can see each other as simply human beings after all...

  • 5 years ago

    Obviously they are very confused in their thinking on this point; on the one hand they say "Judaism is a religion anyone can convert to" then spin right around in that dizzy way of theirs and say "yes,we are an ethnic group" which completely contradicts the idea that they are a religion to which anyone can convert. In any event if it's defined as a religion then what the hell are so-called "secular Jews"? The fact is they don't have any realistic idea as to who or what they supposedly are as a "people' so they can't respond intelligently. No,they are not an ethnic group,so no,they have no claim to the Holy Land and all of the zionists founders were not even jews to begin with.

  • 1 decade ago

    We always and can only see the outside before we're able to see the inside, and society does put a heavy emphasis on looks. This study of eugenics will even create a bigger and wider scale in which to label people differently.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Sadly, as a whole world, i dont think 'we' ever will, there are just some of those people out there. however, there are even more people just like you and me who will always see the person for who they are and not their sex, ethnicity or religious beliefs.

    But then again who knows, anythings possible.

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  • 1 decade ago

    I'd say that those things are with us for at least a couple hundred years yet. And besides, do you honestly think that just because it is so often baldly asserted that these differences don't matter, that they therefore really don't?

  • 1 decade ago

    I see humans as individuals - that doesn't mean I don't notice their race/gender/ethnicity just that I reserve judgement about them until I know them rather than making assumptions based on generalisations

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