Well segregation is a part of life unfortunately and i know first hand as im as white as you can get 70% German and my wife is mixed her father was black and her mother was of German decent and i have 4 children 2 white and two mixed and even in this day and age we get stared at mainly by the older whites and the truly ghetto blacks and for the most part were accepted as a couple and i find color such a rediculous thing in this day and age race, color, countrys mean nothing and being in the US where every culture in the world is accepted its so ludacris to see these ethnic groups, were all human we all bleed red and were all equal so why in this day and age do we have to say oh that black guy or look at that mexican etc its just so infantile, i see everyone as a person and if i do see color in someone its usually because there racists and are trying to purposely make it about color.
Celebrating diversity without being jerks about it?
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 On 07/07/2013 at 10:05 PM by BrokenH See More From This User » |
Celebrating diversity without self segregation?
I really need help, peeps. It just occurred to me I love diversity. I find cultures different from my own to be exotic and intriguing. Put simply, I’m glad we’re not all drones who answer to the same hive collective!
"....Uhhhh....."
".....okaaay......"
"....slowly turns away....."
"....runs...."
Thing is, I have to confess I feel icky about self interest groups. It’s obvious that men’s rights activists are going to mainly look out for other men, feminists are going to put women before anyone else, religious/ political/nationalist parties aren’t going to embrace people outside their circles, and the slew of racial ethnic support groups aren’t going to give a damn about anyone who is not of their same ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
I wonder why we need all these broken apart sub categories of humanity to function as a whole society. Does it not seem like we’re going the route of self inflicted segregation? That we’re putting the interests of our own personal fractions above the interests of the other groups listed here as well?
I really don’t want to see us as a species of selfish self entitled assholes but when I’m constantly bombarded by all the angry ranting and vitriol online I do have to wonder if we’re actually still evolving at a healthy rate.
A famous saying is “Pride Before The Fall” and it seems as if this youtube/blogger/face book era of self indulgent “me-verses” has created a rat-race of egos where we’re out to get ours and to hell with everyone else!
"Silver lining...Boondocks is good!"
Sadly, I don’t have a solution for this. My conundrum started when I thought about Black Entertainment Television. For the record, you don’t have to be Black to watch BET. However, the name implies it’s targeted solely at Black people. Remove the channel and it’s a slap in the face to Black culture. Yet the channel itself is also a gathering place for negative Black stereotypes and Black elitism even if that’s not its’ intention. Creating a “White Entertainment Channel” wouldn’t do shit to fix this because truth be told NBC, Fox, and ABC are already predominately Caucasian owned networks. (And likewise they’re a gathering place for Negative Caucasian stereotypes and Caucasian elitism) Meanwhile, Spike TV and Lifetime create a divide between masculine and feminine viewer-ship. Put simply, if television stations are a reflection of human relations we’re in some serious trouble.
Regardless, if any of you have solutions for celebrating diversity without the segregation and “I am better than thou” posturing please, put them in your comments below!
Gaming related
"You will be avenged my love. I will become the night!"
~Ben-man
Philosophical kookiness aside, I’m still enjoying Dragon’s Dogma. My strider has henceforth become an assassin and I’m lvl. 31. I fudged up the quest to save Quina by waiting too long. I figured she died in the woods while I was off gallivanting around somewhere else. In retrospect, it kind of goes along with me choosing a darker vocation class. Aka, maybe my hero got screwed up in the head after he wasn’t able to rescue his childhood sweetheart. It creates a tragic wrinkle to my arisen that could explain why he became more akin to a medieval Batman styled protagonist later on.
So far I think capcom did a good job including elements that make open rpgs fun while dropping elements that make them tedious. Not having to worry about breakable equipment is a huge plus. Granted, fruit and meat go “rotten” in my inventory but I’ll gladly put up with that over a shattering blade or faulty armor.
I’ve yet to see my first Griffin. I know they exist but my biggest foes have been cyclopses, ogres, a hydra, and a few chimeras so far. Admittedly the enemy variety is rather sparse but it’s mixed up just enough to keep things interesting. Even without big enemies showing up you still have to worry about zombies, harpies, bandits, goblins, skeletons, spiders, ghosts, and wolves.
My only gripe is you can climb up almost any surface yet you cannot swim. Even Amular had swimming though Amular also kept your navigation locked onto set paths. Aka, you couldn’t really scale castle walls or scale cliff faces like you can in Dragon’s Dogma.
Bluntly put, I’m surprised capcom made an rpg that is this good. Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen has the potential of being “game of the year” material for me personally. Interpret that as you will. (I have eccentric whacked out tastes when it comes to gaming. lol.)
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