A news tidbit that I found on the web. It beautifully puts to words my own thoughts about ethnic similarities and differences.

Another sign of a new approach came last week in the influential daily "Le Monde," where the country's best known sociologist, Alain Touraine, urged a rethink. "Rejection of ethnic separatism must be matched by a recognition of differences," he argued. "France as a society could become a threat to itself unless it manages to combine integration with differences and universalism with individual cultural rights."

The one thing that has always been so hard for me to understand is why we tend to be so narrow minded in our thinking. To only see one side of a solution when there is two components to it. Now that is not to say that I am not guilty of seeing only one side myself, oh no! I am the fartherst thing from perfect in that area. But I am trying.

A thought just popped into my head but I'm not even entirely sure what I mean by it...an objective participant in life.