Embracing Differences

Embracing Differences

I have found over the years that there are several different kinds of snobbery and discrimination. At the forefront of course are the two more prominent forms that most people are familiar with, race and money. Prejudice and bias rear their ugly little heads in numerous ways. Urbanites will often look down their noses at ruralists. A ruralist may enjoy poking fun at “city slickers”, and state that anyone without calluses on their hands obviously hasn’t done an honest days work. Nothing could be further from the truth on either count. I grew up in rural America; I know that farming is hard work. I have also lived in the city for most of my adult life and know too that meeting deadlines, crunching numbers, and office politics can also be very taxing and hard work. Living in the city doesn’t mean one is shallow and naïve any more than being from rural America makes a person unsophisticated or simple. Isn’t it time we realize that it’s our differences that make this nation great. After all one definition of a democracy is “the principles of social equality and respect for the individual within a community”.

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