[Monkey Wrench]

cultural, I remember bien in kindergarten, they had a somg to teach kids how to count ot ten, it went i little 2 little three little,,, and in the playgrounds we'd sing well as the "sitting on the fence" ryme,
I grew up with a lot of indiginous frineds, we had not yet ever heard the term indiginous, they were called Indians back then it was not an insult to anyone, and there were also east indians, now the word is south asians, and indian is currently an insult to some , but it depends upon interpretation.

I went back there and attemted to call one of my good old frineds indiginous, he loooked at me weirdly,, he said don't call me that, ho woke! I am an Indian.. What happened was the language changed. what also happend was the divide in culture became less tolerant due to the focus upon separate rights which I always forund morally questionable,

they start almost all public speaches now with a statement about "ceeded land", It feels exactly like I did when they preached in school and if we rere not religious,, We were to just bow our heads, sit quietly, be polite and let the others get on with their little religious poems, as I became a year or so older more wary the prayers were discontinbued in public schools..but before that readint the lords prayer in school was normal,

I actually truly believe in racial equality despite ancestory, so I find listening to that race related political stuff as a part of a work related presentation very insulting, I dont stand up to make a statement about it, I sit quietly, If I were ot speak out I;d be shunned or corrected, it would be very a very awkward moment, I bow my head and sit politely as to not insult anyone although I feel its wrong to say all these things.. I think the annimosity is actually amplified by such race related political statements, cultural divisions create annimosity..

I like the line from woodstock , it was at a crazy crowded huge concert,, but some will remember the statement,, "the guy beside you is your briother and you damn well beeter treat him that way or we blow the whole thing righ there.." - thats what euqlity is, to me,

ive never in my lifetine heard any politician stand up and say they thought we shoudl steer towards equality, and here in canada there are different rights and laws based upon bloodlines,

As much as I attemot to reason within it, I cant; agree to the direction we are heading in becauwe it does not represent my core value of basic equality anongst Canadians, despite race, color, creed or ancestry. I still do not think racial equality is a bad thing, but I dare not stand up and say anything too strongly.

a decision I came to I was trying to get on a bridge and other drivers were pushign theeir way ahead, I sat back and said, I dont have to police the whole world, every day I see situations where I remind myself of it, I cant quite express how much that helped me, gee I dont needot be stessd becaus eome other driver acts like a jerk..

the traffic situation is only an example, Im finding the adjustment to not rule the world applies to many circumstances ..
so it works for me,

another decisoon i made, I don't participate in surveys.. i refues to, the only one I'll do is censius, it is unlawful not to fill it in, surveys are an assessment of only the people willing to participate so they are never very reliable data anyway, I find that so often surveys are a way to create inaccurate data to base a particular judgement a upon..

polls happen in polling stations Thats the reason for the secret ballot in a democracy, the word poll seems to be morhing into "survey data", I do not think a survey and a poll are even related..

so much is about interpretation of terms, and terms do change pover time. Woke is related but use the word woke and you are almost sure to be interpreted as starting a political discussion..

a politican duscussio so often means an agumentative stance.. Im glad I stopped policing the whole world ;-)

Im finding it a lot easier now that I made that little personal change, its not always my gut reaction but when I think that way I so ofen just give a sigh of relief, like "dont sweat the small stuff,,"


I agree that its hard not to be insulted, but the fact is that you were insulted, Correcting the old lady won't accomplish much. I think it takes a "bigger man" to rise above it than to lash back out with some form of retalliation. You chose to take the high road, and its admirable.