Ok. I got it. Your proximity determines you to a certain extent...and that extent is only to the point that you allow it to. Say you lived Arkansas. You grew up in a lower class family, a family that was less tolerant to other views. While you were growing up, you probably molded to those values. But then, once you grew up to your teens and were exposed to the outside world and all that it has to offer, you make a decision. You either alter those values that your proximity forged via your family and their values or you keep going with the 'norm' aka the way it's been your whole life. Once you reach a certain maturity, you make that decision and stick with it...until you feel like doing something differently. I think that makes sense. This is a process we're constantly going through and I think it's the basis of the want/need for change.
There.
Man...I don't even know if that made sense....
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Oh I get it.
So you're sayin you hate our FAMILY?!?!?!?!
DISOWN!
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I feel ya.
I think it can also apply to proximity in the sense of national values.
Ex: If one grows up in a prospering country that assures citizens it is the best and is consumed with swimming in its economic obesity and covering its problems with patriotism (oooh I said it!) THEN one is not so inclined or even encouraged to care about global problems such as poverty, sex trade, exploitation, etc. (except maybe a bit more now b/c it became a marketing ploy to sell more Gap shirts).
BUT one can choose to take responsibility and seek out information and take action to reject these specific national values (but not necessarily other national values which may indeed have merit) and live in the truth that turning a blind eye to the suffering and weak is not okay. And that there are things each of us to do to stop such realities.
Booyah.
very true. that's kinda what i was trying to get at sooo thanks! haha. but yea i definitely agree that so-called 'patriotic' Americans (b/c lets be real, that's who the first paragraph was about)are really just people who refuse to believe there's anything going on outside of our borders. They have a selfish, warped view of reality which is why said people get so pissed off when you confront them about it because know one likes feeling as though they're in the wrong, especially when that 'wrong' has been the values that have been passed on from generation to generation WHICH feeds to their 'traditional patriotism'. Cuz if ole gran pappy believ'd it, den its gotta be true!
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