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Posted by: monitor 16807
The Irish thing. People descendant of Irish who feel insulted when someone says something bad about it.They feel insulted because they identify with other Irish people because, like I said, they share the same government, living conditions, environment, etc. When someone insults 'the Irish', it feels like a personal insult because the insult is directed at the government, living conditions, environment, etc. and is subsequently an insult to that person.
Neither you nor I can just 'choose' to identify with others at will. I can't choose to identify with people that live in Iraq, because I don't share any experiences with them. I can't choose to identify with women, because I'm not a woman and have no experienced the things that generally give women the loose bond of gender that they share. I can't choose to identify with a tree because I don't have the intellect of a tree. I could earnestly try to learn to identify with all of those things, and I might succeed, but I don't understand why you view the identity that you spend your life establishing to be a negative thing. It's the summation of your experiences that connect people...not some slave-like designation implanted at birth.
Posted by: monitor 16807
Posted by: Baph117
Good thing there's enough people who disagree to keep society together.And why exactly couldn't society be composed of many different kind of individuals? Why should people conform to a hive-mind?Humans are so far incapable of forming a hive-mind because we have no means to communicate that way.
[Edited on 12.30.2012 12:22 AM PST]