FatGiant
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Exactly. I see that you got the message. Good. Oh, and thanks.
BTW, I didn't get triggered, I took the opportunity to make a point. I am aware that in some parts of the world, categorization is a constant part of life. In others, like where I am, not so much, it still happens, but it isn't as relevant or contrived. For example, driving licenses and official ID's don't mention Race, Eye Color, etc. At most mention height.
So, it is par for the course that that categorization would spread to every aspect of your lives, you are a product of that society after all. This also means that it will continue to perpetuate, because individuals raised that way, will consider it normal, and normalization will produce further individuals thinking that way.
That's why people make a fuss about external aspects, like hair color. They create mythologies about them. They fetishize them. And, in the end, they create Preferences based on those mythologies and fetishes. They are products of a society obsessed with differences, they are what their environment made them.
Is it really that important what color someone else's hair is? If it is that important for you, is because you ascribed some myth to it, or during your development years, you were impressed by that in some way, and YOU created that myth yourself. Doesn't matter, really how it started. It matters that now, you are under the impression that that color of hair gives you something extra, whatever it may be.
If you were raised in a mono racial society, all other hair colors would look strange and only the predominant one in your "home base" would feel correct, you could develop a taste for those exotic colors, but they would never stop being exotic.
What I am talking about is that. That feeling of "attraction" to this or that, because it was either rare, abnormal, or the opposite, completely common. It is however, completely mythological.
Welcome to the delicious world of Anthropos.
Peace
