Show Stereotypes need blending i Jon Morrison T THE HE other day a woman in one of my classes asked me if I Iwas Iwas Iwas was liberal beral or conservative She seemed stunned when I told her I didn't know the difference If seems that everything you are do or want to be has a alabel alabel label these days From race to religion to politics to everyday life people seem to take pride e in being labeled as something or other like ind index cards in some sort of human Dewey decimal system Job and finan financial al aid applications ask your race statistical information only yeah right Are you Caucasian white schmuck black or is it American African-American Hispanic Asian or Other Just what the heck is other If anyone who falls in that category isn't important enough to get her own box why should any of us get one Personally I prefer a write-in write box of the of I just consider myself a member of the human race In the religious spectrum you have Christians and Jews and Muslims and Hind Hindus s you get the point Major religions are further subdivided into such categories as Catholics Protestants Orthodox Sunni and Shiite which are further subdivided into sects and chapters and parishes and mosques and wards on people wh where re does it end Personally Im I'm an Independent Baptist I think that's protestant protestant protestant protes- protes tant and conservative but Im I'm not really sure Certainly you should be proud to be you and not try to zo be what youre you're not Yo Yo Vanilla Ice But do we we really need all this crap Everyone should realize the differences between sexes races religions etc but do we really need to be classified classified classified clas clas- like protozoa and bacteria in a biology t textbook Cant Can't people have equal rights and yet maintain wh whatever culture they wish Probably not If we haven't figured it tt out by now I doubt we will any time soon When you come down to the basics we ar are all born eat I i sleep bleed red blood except for or and pay I taxes and die When its it's all over with will anyone really care what genus and species es you belonged to I wont But until I then I guess Ill I'll have to live with being a white Saxon Anglo-Saxon protestant liberally-conservative liberally middle class male male with an attitude |