D'oh, I never finished my sentence. I meant to say that none of us are that different, but thinking of Rwanda, which I happily misspelled, because it reminded me of the Rh factor in blood, made me forget to finish my sentence. And the Rh factor just reinforces my point, but it exists across all races. A surgical procedure that works for a person of one ethnicity works for one of another, and so do drugs. Absent-mi nded am I? Yes!
Anyways, back to the response: I think I completely missed your point. I see your point in that differences are much more subtle regionally than in general, but they both don't sound that much different. It's still brushing off differences by lumping them into a group, granted in the second one it's a smaller group. It's just with the smaller group, I think you run into more historical tensions. But I can't think of any positive way to respond to misjudging someone's race. I guess it's just finding the lesser of two offenses.
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nded am I? Yes!
Anyways, back to the response:
I think I completely missed your point. I see your point in that differences are much more subtle regionally than in general, but they both don't sound that much different. It's still brushing off differences by lumping them into a group, granted in the second one it's a smaller group. It's just with the smaller group, I think you run into more historical tensions. But I can't think of any positive way to respond to misjudging someone's race. I guess it's just finding the lesser of two offenses.