I don't believe we are all the same. If by us, you mean
intelligence level? If by us, you mean ambivert? By us, do you
mean skin color?
For me, I am measured either at 142 or 132. I choose to believe
the 132. I'm not up to par with those of higher intelligence on
certain things and suspect it was a fluke.
I'm envious of the ambivert; while I'm not TOO far away from
ambivert, I'm far enough away where people suck my energy dry
IRL, but online, I'm definitely all E. It's my turf.
By skin color? I'm 43 (just had a bday yesterday thanks!) -
caucasian male, 6' tall. Being male, I get privileges and
drawbacks. Being white, privileges. Drawbacks? None. I'm not
ashamed of it and I'm grateful for it, but I also don't know any
different. I see the struggle those who aren't white have. They
are struggles I don't have. I wish I could wave a wand and make
the problems go "poof".
But I can't.
Drawbacks to being white? Higher expectation levels yet less to
prove. Being lazy and white and being lazy and black are two
entirely different things in the eyes of culture.
Being intelligent and white and intelligent and black are also
two entirely different things in the eyes of culture.
I understand a little of a neighborhood wanting to hold me back
- raised in a blue collar irish/italian nj suburb that was
mostly white, when the town next door was mixed races/culture,
and the town next to THAT had the Newark Riots in the late 1960s
(before I was born).....
...anyway.. there's still a pressure to not be too smart, not go
too far, stay with 'us' because it makes everybody else look bad
when you are successful.
Thankfully, private school in high school saved me from that
pressure, but I remember it growing up. Gotta stay stupid, be
one of us.
