{"id":4773,"date":"2015-11-30T09:45:05","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T14:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=4773"},"modified":"2015-11-30T09:45:05","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T14:45:05","slug":"just-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2015\/11\/30\/just-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Just People"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every time someone talks about fear of foreigners I just want to shake them & say “These are PEOPLE<\/strong>! They eat & sleep just like you; they have hopes and aspirations just like you, they love and they dream just like you, and putting aside different clothes and traditions they are STILL JUST PEOPLE<\/strong> who are not scary and should not be treated with any less decency than you would want to be treated with yourself.”<\/p>\n

It is all to easy to group people you don’t know and apply simple stereotypes and pretend you know them – and always but especially in this day and age this is a terribly dangerous way to think; all the more so because it is so easy to do without even realizing you’re doing it. If you ever catch yourself using the phrase “those people,” you’ve probably just fallen into this trap.<\/p>\n

But someone isn’t “those people” any more than you are “these people.” The lines we draw are arbitrary, regardless of what they’re based on. At the end of the day, we are all just people<\/strong> – different people to be sure, there’s all kinds of people – but still people<\/em> <\/strong>all the same.<\/p>\n

So the next time you see someone different from yourself, before you slap a stereotype and your preconceptions on them and convince yourself that you know that they are like and what they think, stop for a moment and remember: though they may look different or behave different, they are JUST PEOPLE<\/strong> and they are almost certainly more like you than you’d think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s all too easy in this day and age to give in to a subtle (or not-so-subtle) fear of “foreigners” but it is important to remember that these are still just people like you and me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[199,2,17],"tags":[150,396,397],"class_list":["post-4773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-opinion","category-politics","category-society","tag-immigration","tag-people","tag-xenophobia","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-1eZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":315,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2004\/11\/08\/sick-and-ill-treated-children\/","url_meta":{"origin":4773,"position":0},"title":"Sick and ill-treated children?","author":"Keith Survell","date":"November 8, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"An interesting point. 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