Now if we see it on a menu, we're going to have to order it, just so that Sarah can squirm uncomfortably and get class guilt about it all through the meal.
But I think it's human nature to divide ourselves up into different groups of people, modify our language, clothing and other habits to make it possible for others in the know to discern our group membership, and then form irrational hatred of other groups, and even different sub-groups of the same group. I don't think such a process is especially meaningful.
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Date: 2009-03-27 04:07 pm (UTC)But I think it's human nature to divide ourselves up into different groups of people, modify our language, clothing and other habits to make it possible for others in the know to discern our group membership, and then form irrational hatred of other groups, and even different sub-groups of the same group. I don't think such a process is especially meaningful.