Risa: Your Home Away from Spacedock
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Watching this as a kid when it was new, scenes like this went right over my head. The only thing that seemed odd was a Russian crew member. I had a lot to learn about the world.
And that is exactly why it was so effective.
Like the old saying goes, "show, don't tell". TOS didn't need to shake us by the shoulders and say "look! There's a black woman in a respected professional position! Isn't that amazing‽" They just showed us Uhura doing her job, being treated the same as anyone else because it's the future and why would it be any other way?
Seriously. The modern trend of girlbossing every fucking thing is genuinely going backwards on the issue.
I'll be honest, it would be nice to get applause for putting on my pants right by the third try one of these days also.
Honestly, I'm really happy for you that you saw it as just another moment. That's the world I want to live in, it's the world I want to raise my child in.
That's honestly how we get rid of all this racism. Children are innocent, let them play with each other, let them talk, mingle, they will make friends irrespective of people's background.
I think the problem here is children are taught they are different, they are told they can't be friends, or hang with certain groups. They're told they can't talk the same way their friend does, they can't say the same words (might be controversial sorry, but children are innocent). And this is in cases where they are interacting, many communities are isolated and many children will only grow up seeing people like them. They don't learn about the diversity, they grow up having "us" vs "them".
If that continues, it'll never be better. Children are our hope, our grandparents are not going to change, but children can be, and they'll replace the current generation. Attack on education, and isolating communities makes the population stagnant, or even revert back.
I was the shortest of the class in my youth, which was reason enough to get bullied day after day. Some children are innocent, others just go along with bullies to not get picked on themselves and some are just absolutely cruel and vile if you're different. And it's definitely not always upbringing, the worst of the bunch actually had very nice parents, his brother was a great guy as well. But some kids are just rotten to the core.
It's funny you gave example of bullying. It's again another thing that seems very common in USA. I was honestly shocked that there was so much bullying in school. And teachers apparently don't do anything except telling the victims to toughen up, or learn to deal with it yourself.
Yes some children are bad, but it's largely shaped by environment on what they feel confident doing. For an extreme example, a bad child in any other country will not go shoot up the school. Bullying feels similar. It is natural that children will form groups, include people they like, exclude ones they don't. Rude ones are normally excluded from nice groups. And if it's anything actually harmful, adults' (parents or teachers) interference stops it. I think the American individualism starts young, when someone is bullied, even their friends won't stick with them to not be victims themselves. That just isolates the victims, and the bullies feel empowered.
It is my perspective from outside as I didn't go to school here. So forgive me if I don't understand it completely, my knowledge of school in USA comes from Internet and a lot of philosophical conversations like this with people in my life that went to school here.
My school experience wasn't perfect, me and this other guy were the shortest in our class. It was even kinda officially recognized because teachers ordered students by height in assembly (every morning). I had people that looked down on me, and people I looked down on too. Some small physical fights (not height related), and verbal ones. And a lot of teachers' intervention. But people valued education, when I learned how bullied being a nerd makes someone here, and hearing the details, and the apathy of the teachers, I was shocked.
Similar thing with the race problem. We had everyone go to the same school, our parents (and prev generation) would not go to each others house to eat, even if they get along socially. It was a social taboo, but I will not do that because I grew up with my friends. And they're just my friends, and the social rules seem arbitrary to me. And it helps that we're taught about equality, and how the old way of separating/discriminating people was wrong. Previous generation might not be able to let go of their habits easily, but when they no longer control society, most of it will be gone. Also, in my generation (friends and cousins), I have seen so many marriages that would not have happened in previous generation.
Well, guess you'll probably know more about the US system in that case as I've never even been near the States. 😋
Yes, but that does invalidate a blanket statement like 'children are innocent'.
Having said that, I completely agree that it should be ingrained that equality and worthiness of respect are not dependent on aspects like skin color and gender.
Children suck, but the ways children suck are petty and personal.
The real bad shit is necessarily learned.