Metamorphosis

lol, see that is the point though. It is how words are used and not the words themselves. I think we don't need to be as sensitive about the choice of words, but people need to think about how they use their words and how it impacts other people. Yankee is the least of my worries as really for the most part unless you get someone who doesn't like white people (mainly Irish and then a mutt mixture of english and some native american= lily white so pail you can see through me) I have it pretty easy. Down here there are many people who do not that tend to be of a minority ethnicity, however it seems to run both ways and each side of the populace is way oversensitive and defensive about everything. It is sad as it is just barely under the surface, so visit for a day or two and it can be anywhere in America, stay here a couple of months and you find out fast that you are in the deep deep south and the prejudices and actions are still there on both side, just thinly veiled. I wish I could describe it better, but I think it really is something you have to experience to truly understand, especially coming from a Northern perspective where you are mainly taught that people are just people no matter the race (although you do have the few shinning examples of prejudiced beleifs alive and well in some small towns) and then coming to the South where that isn't the perspective traditionally. I find the younger people tend to be a little more tolerant, but talking to the older generation that are my parents age is eye opening. What is sad is that they pass it on to their children and reinforce it and I have seen it happen. It is a sad vicious cycle.

Here you see I am talking more race issues and less cultural sensitivity. I do feel we are so far PC as to be repressed as a society as we are all afraid we might hurt someone's feelings and then be labeled racist or whatnot. We need to all learn to get along as we are all people at the heart of it. That though tends to be a problem if parents are teaching children that x group is one step above animals or slinging about names that compare them with animals every time they talk about them (here I speak about how a coworker tends to talk about any other race but white people). It is bad as it is the first step to making people no longer appear human and to then start breading hate and a callous attitude about what is done to those people.

We all need to relax and realize we are all people, but at the same time we all need to learn to respect the fact that we are all people and deserving of basic polite behavior.

I don't know I am tired and at work and I think I have started rambling. Sorry.