No matter how much we are programed to think that we are all the same, we are not. Well, we are not as different as we’ve perceived each other to be either! This applies to everyone and everything. Having moved away in my early thirties from the city I was born and raised in. I got a startling reality check of the similarities amongst different racial groups, that I’m almost embarrassed to admit, I believed were nothing alike. In my ignorance, I had no idea that other races even mixed.
We live in America, captain obvious here. If a person was mixed in this country, they were either mixed with White or Black. The most common mix is White and Black but guess what, that is not the only combination that exist! There are all types of beautiful multi-raced folks in this world and leaving my little, narrowminded surroundings opened me up to all the other possibilities.
As I continued to observe and learn more about my new uncharted territory, I saw the little things made us all unique. Things like hair styles and makeup. Popular car brands and articles of clothing. The way bread was cooked or even rice. Besides our inherent physical differences, the very slight variations of the way we each did a thing made it, a thing that turned into a practice or belief or tradition. It became a Mexican thing or a Turkish thing. A religious thing or a vegan thing. I like to think that I’m so different in so many ways, but the truth is I’m very much like so many other humans cluelessly experiencing life on this planet.
I think its beautiful to do something, anything in a particular way. Just know that we all have a special way of doing the same things!
Be kind to yourself
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