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- RickLv 68 years agoFavourite answer
In my 60+ years on this Earth I've seen a huge change. I'm sure I used the "N" word and made jokes about minorities back in the 1960s myself as a teenager. As I entered adulthood I met more and more minorities who were pretty much just like me. I even found myself liking them! It's not easy to keep making jokes about people you like. I still was a bit bothered by interracial marriage in the 1970s but then I worked with a black guy married to a white gal. Gee, they really seemed to love each other and their kids just like my family. I heard people remark about them behind their backs and I was offended! In the 1980s the commercials with interracial couples seemed overdone to me and it seemed excessive. That bothered me a bit. Then I realized that is exactly what society needed. The more you see nice people who are different from you in some insignificant way, the less different they seem. And now we are in the 2010s and the only thing bothering me is why people still can't just forget about skin color and judge people by their actions.
- Frank BarnwellLv 45 years ago
There is no Hatred of Minorities, only real Admiration; the People that foster such exhibits, do in fact know that they are the lowest Forms of Life upon the Earths Surface, and the fact that they just love themselves to much, is where the problems arise. That which resembles Hatred, to others is Selfishness. Sure they have come a long way granted, also as VANITY is also one of the seven Deadly SINS, along with SELFISHNESS. ...0107.2016
- ?Lv 78 years ago
There's also that Cheerios commercial that features an interracial couple with a biracial daughter. Those 40 and older made a huge deal about it, but children's responses amount to 'Whatever, they're people.'