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Rhiannon12866

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9. Wow, sounds like you grew up with an open mind, I did as well.
Thu Mar 20, 2025, 02:24 AM
Mar 2025

When I was in elementary school, it never dawned on me that anyone was "different." I really believe that any kind of prejudice is taught. My best friend's mother came from Japan, but then my maternal grandmother came from Poland. I figured that everyone had something.

And when I was older, my paternal grandmother (whose Dutch ancestors arrived on these shores in the 1600s) told me that when her kids were young a neighbor gave her a hard time about NOT having prejudices. She told me the woman said "Hazel, when your kids grow up, one of them is going to marry an Eskimo!" I guess that was the minorest minority that this woman could think of!

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