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From: zubbie@ihlpl.UUCP (Jeanette Zobjeck)
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Subject: Re: Discrimination against x
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Date: Fri, 5-Jul-85 13:40:20 EDT
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>      By the way, I am basically an optimist when it comes to the potential of
> humans to move away from racial intolerance.  Skin tone and hair colour must
> have been factors of discrimination in, say, 10th or 11th-century Britain,
> indicating as they would racial origin (Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian,
> Norman, etc.).  Obviously those racial distinctions have all but disappeared
> in the genetic mix which now characterizes most English-speaking countries.
> More recently, up until a few decades ago there was great prejudice against
> Irish North Americans, which has by now dissolved into, at most, fairly mild
> stereotypes.
>                 --Jamie.

I think you need to look around you a bit more.

Perhaps in your area there is a lack of overt racial or sexual discrimination
but I feel that if you were to visit a few large cities (not the tourist traps)
you might find that there is still a boundary defined by color of skin and
another defined by sex/gender and another defined by age..........
skin tone / hair color have been factors in discrimination in the modern
world. We don't live in the 10th or 11th century but since that time
mankind has found wasy to :

	Murder people for their religion.
	Enslave people for the color of their skin
	Deprive citizens of their rights and property because 
		of their racial background (citizen status not withstanding)
	Cultivate an entire subculture or people as menials because of sex.


-- 
Jeanette Zobjeck ihnp4!ihlpl!zubbie