[ExI]  are we not just one race, the human race?
    Amara Graps 
    amara at amara.com
       
    Sat Mar 22 19:26:24 UTC 2008
    
    
  
Anne Corwin:
>Cultures HAVE to become more flexible and accommodating of different
>kinds of people and morphologies, or else they risk devolving into
>"Optimality Police" states.
But many do. I'm guessing that you're located in the US, and that one
'feature' is in the top five that I can't stand (kept me away for 10
years, and will be a driver for me leaving again). In other words; the
lack of respect for differences and the strong (American) cultural
pressure for homogeneity.
Amara
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Amara Graps, PhD      www.amara.com
Research Scientist, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), Boulder, Colorado
    
    
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