I wish everybody in the world had the same skin color.

[NightTrain]

I'm sorry, but I just get nervous whenever I encounter somebody who's not my color. If we were all the same color, then nobody would have to feel uncomfortable around "those people," because "those people" would not exist.

I'm forwarding my suggestion to President Bush. I bet he'll love it!

[gollygee]

1. Then how would he know which country to invade next?

You're gonna make things hard for him!

[tjdee]

2. Actually, mixed race kids are gorgeous.

There's not one "mixed race" look though, so we'd still all be different colors.

I know this is a copycat thread, I'm just sayin'.

:)

[wtmusic]

3. It's people with blue eyes

you can't trust

[Left Is Write]

4. Hey!

I resemble that.

I have the dreaded blue eyes and (hold onto your hat, now) - blonde hair.

[Aiptasia]

5. Me too, i'm as arian as they come

nobody knows what it's like... to be the bad man... to be the sad man... behind blue eyes.

[wtmusic]

9. both of you...your screen names have been noted

that sounds creepy even in jest

[Left Is Write]

10. It sounds creepy that I have blonde hair and blue eyes?

Hey, speak to my parents. If my Norwegian and Swedish mother hadn't married my Norwegian dad, maybe I'd be a brunette.

[wtmusic]

12. sheesh

I bet you're cute as hell too, but I just could never trust you...</flirt>

[Left Is Write]

14. It's the Scandinavian thing, isn't it?

Damn.

And, for the curious, this is me:

[wtmusic]

15. see I was right

you are cute as hell except your eyes say you really like to get under people's skin...(oh yeah, and then there's the trust thing) ;)

[Left Is Write]

18. Oh, I'm highly trustworthy.

Trust me on that.

:D

[St. Jarvitude]

11. I used to be totally "aryan" (as in Hitler's aryan) (weird story)

When I was born, I had green eyes and red hair. So in other words, my face looked like the Mexican flag.

Around the age of three, my eyes started a gradual shift to sky-blue that ended at about the age of four. My hair likewise moved from dirty blonde-red to a bright blond.

Around the age of ten, I started noticing my eyes had really strange behavior. Under the same lighting at day and at night, the colors were remarkably different. During the day, both eyes were the same bright blue I had had for most of my life. As the sun set, though, my eyes took on a noticably different color, and when night had fallen (around 6:30 PM) they were definitely, 100% hazel. When I'd wake up the next morning, they'd be back to blue.

This weirdness changed around the age of twelve. By then, my right eye had become totally "night-time" hazel, but my left eye was still mostly blue. I only got "matching" eyes about a year and a half ago (just before I turned fifteen).

At about the age of twelve, again, my hair started changing to a darker and darker hue, and now it's unmistakably reddish-brown. It's *really* noticable now that I've abandoned a close-crop haircut for a shaggy, medium length cut (especially when my hair is wet... then it's practically on fire :o)

[BlueEyedSon]

17. Double Hey!

[underseasurveyor]

22. no no no It's those green eyed ones ya gotta look out for

Monsters ya know :evilgrin:

[Abelman]

25. Bah

I have blue eyes and I trust myself more than anyone else I know.

They're a piercing "Steel Blue" variety.

[wtmusic]

28. Bah backatcha...everyone trusts themselves

you're a liar and a thief! (j/k) :P

[FloridaPat]

6. From an artistic point of view, that would be very boring. Like having

flowers all the same color, or only one tree everywhere. Or having the only meal in the world McDonalds hamburgers.

I like differences. I like to paint them, eat different foods, visit different countries with different languages. If I wanted things to be the same and boring I guess I would become a republican.

[NightTrain]

8. Umm.... I don't think you get it.

Look here and perhaps you'll understand:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x2092745

[FloridaPat]

21. Each language reflects a different understanding of the universe.

If we get rid of all languages and speak one, all those differing visions would be lost. Same with genetics. When everything is the same, some highly valuable differences are lost. And also bad things also. Everyone has a pieve of the puzzle on how to survive. If we only listen to one group, we are in for some rude surpises.

The trick I blieve it not looking at all the differences but what we all have in common. If we start working on what we have in common, the rest will come. As for war, we are now living through a real life example of how they get started. If the entire world spoke English, we would still be in the situtation we are today because of greed and stupidity and I also believe insanity. The Iraq invasion is an unbelieveable affront to democracy, freedom, and peace. And the fact that my country did this without a qualm makes me sick to my stomach.

[knowbody0]

7. don't be nervous

be yourself. we breathe the same air, our blood is red.
can you imagine only one kind of tree?
expand your thought process and soon you will just see your fellow man. we are a rich nation of all colors.

[Rumba]

13. I have the opposite reaction now

I moved to the San Francisco bay area (silicon valley) about 5 years ago, from a college town in Illinois. I grew up in Ohio. The college town (Urbana-Champaign) is not large, about 130K people, but for a midwestern town that size it's relatively diverse due to the university population. Still, when I moved to the bay area it was initially a bit of a culture shock. This area is incredibly diverse and even a progressive white guy from the midwest needed a little getting used to it.

Then, about a year later, I went to Vail to go skiing with my girlfriend. We were walking through the ski village at the base of one of the resorts and I had a stragely unsettled feeling. All of a sudden I realized why I was feeling a bit out of place, and I turned to my girlfriend and said "honey, everybody here is *white*!".

She turned to me and replied "yeah? how do you think *I* feel?". (She's Chinese ethnically and American culturally).

In that moment it became totally clear to me that I had gotten very used to the diversity of the bay area. It's just a matter of what you're used to.

I had thanksgiving this year with some friends in the city (around here, that means San Francisco). Among the nine people present, the following nationalities were represented: american, german, croatian, chinese, japanese, indian, and philipino. 9 people, 7 nationalities from all around the world. That's diverse. And we had a great time, with mostly traditional dishes and also with an indian curry and a southeast asian rice dish and a croatian pepper dip thrown in. We ate, drank, danced, played games, and talked, and it was a great time.

Celebrate diversity.

Oh, if we all have to be the same skin color, I vote for chartreuse. Or mauve.

[Deja Q]

16. I grew up in the burbs...

Not exposed to a multi-ethnic diversity, I feel nervous around non-whites too. (and I also feel fear in family outings/gatherings and they're all white.)

I hate the feeling, especially when it comes to being with non-whites. I don't know why I have fear and there is no reason to. Of course, having social anxiety disorder makes things more interesting for those who have it...

It's also that nervousness that leads people to isolation, xenophobia, and/or violence, regardless of what their skin color is. Once people get to know each other, that feeling dissipates. (I said "and/or" deliberately. Nor is isolation always a bad thing if the underlying issue is generalized social phobia, which is a condition I have - brought about by childhood terror...)

I have no issues with people who feel such fear. It's what people DO with their emotions that is the problem. Those who maim and kill are vile.

Those like you and me who are forthcoming are not bad by any means. It's honesty. And it takes honesty to know where one is and what one needs to do to eliminate the problem. And the answer is people getting to know each other and not be fed by our media system, which has more power than we realize.

[baldguy]

19. No! That would be boring!

And besides, I wouldn't be able to choose



(Not that I'd even HAVE a choice.)

[bowens43]

20. I wish everyone had a DIFFERENT skin color.

That would be cool.

[Abelman]

23. Whateva

The same color? Boo. That's no fun at all.

Everyone should have to live in an area where they are the minority for a few months at least. I live in an area primarily Athabascan. It's a lot like being in a different country.

[pretzel4gore]

24. genetic engineering will save us.....

making white skin and yellow hair the standard worldwide within a hundred years or so.....someday, africans will look at pics of these times and marvel at the differences

[Nikia]

26. I feel initially uncomfortable around everyone

Especially young men of any race in groups of more than 3 or 4. I also get nervous around very beautiful women with good fashion sense because I feel insecure about my appearance. So I wish that young men would not congregate in large groups and that all beautiful women would dress down.
Really, since I have always felt outsiderish, I tend to feel less comfortable around whites who have lived in this area for a long time and know everyone else. At my previous job, my new coworkers were puzzled that I sat down and ate with the Mexican immigrants instead of the whites who had lived there all their lives. I felt much more comfortable that way though.

[THUNDER HANDS]

27. ouch

I didn't mean to sound bigoted when I suggested that I wished everyone spoke the same language.

I guess I coulda said I wished I could speak different languages, but I always thought it would be easier if everyone spoke just one.

But yeah, i get your point.