Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Aspiration Yes, Expectation No

We wrote yesterday about the universality of discrimination and prejudice. Now comes the sometimes bombastic Bill O'Reilly making the same point, as reported by Fox News.
I have traveled to 80 countries, and I can tell you there is more racial harmony in the USA than in 90 percent of the places that I visited.
He's correct. I've been to maybe 110 countries and discrimination is everywhere. We do a better job of getting along with those unlike ourselves than most, although we're far from perfect.

As we noted yesterday, rejecting those unlike ourselves is apparently "hardwired" in the human genome. Although living in harmony is our aspiration, it shouldn't be our expectation.