Maybe this would be better titled, "Address Book, Part 2" because this is really just a second observation from my pseudo-experiment.I noticed how much the people in my address book were just like me.
Here are a couple of other things I noticed as I looked in my personal address book... Only 5 were minorities. And none were buddhist, muslim, mormon, or any other non-Christian religion (at least that I knew of).
One commenter on my first post put it this way.
I looked at my email address book...........yep pretty much everyone is a lot like me. Oh there are some personality differences but ...........same sex, same church background, same age, same income (give or take 10 to 20 thousand) same family values, same education, same humor. Where is the diversity? Of course we all have different spritual gifts and talents but still.......kind of revealing. I don't know one person who likes to jump from planes or who likes snakes...... etc. I must enlarge my territory.
I'm sure this is true of most people. That's because there is another social phenomenon at work. Not only do we become like the people with which we spend time, but groups (once formed) tend to stay homogeneous.
This is a dangerous combination. At best, it produces isolation and ignorance. At worst, it produces elitism and discrimination. I need to do a better job of finding places to connect with people who are not like me.
I've got a couple of other thoughts, but I'll see if anyone is interested in the topic first.... What do ya'll think?
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