snood wrote:Intrepid wrote:To a blind person... there is no race. People seem to have prejudice based on what they can see. How many times has someone liked a person who they spoke to on the telephone and then met them and had a different opinion?
I've gotten some interesting reactions - meeting face-to-face with people after a phone conversation. I've sometimes gotten the distinct impression they were expecting something of a lighter persuasion. I think it's my "non-regional" dialect.
Exactly. People have sterotypes in their head. Some people cannot accept people for what they are. People. Light, dark, short, tall, male, female, straight, gay, bald, skinny, fat etc. etc. are products of what we are....not who we are. I have even seen a difference in interaction on the threads depending on whether someone is perceived to be a Christian or not.
