Pride & Prejudice
He's Indian and I'm a local and I can fuck him up.
Indeed, a deadly combination of pride and prejudice. They go hand in hand though don't they? It is our pride that causes us to raise boundaries, declare that one is better than the other. We fear that a failure on our part to instate this fact will make us weak and vulnerable. And the world and Life itself requires us to be tough.
Till the day I heard those words being said, I always believed that racial prejudice was a way of the old. I believed with the Civil Rights and independance from oppressors those barriers had been torn down. Perhaps in the far vestige of my mind I knew. Perhaps. I would like to believe I was not so naïve.
Pride will eternally be a human characteristic.
Prejudice, I am now coming to believe, may be equally eternal.
What possessed Jane Austen to title a love story with such malicious words will always be beyond my comprehension.
Indeed, a deadly combination of pride and prejudice. They go hand in hand though don't they? It is our pride that causes us to raise boundaries, declare that one is better than the other. We fear that a failure on our part to instate this fact will make us weak and vulnerable. And the world and Life itself requires us to be tough.
Till the day I heard those words being said, I always believed that racial prejudice was a way of the old. I believed with the Civil Rights and independance from oppressors those barriers had been torn down. Perhaps in the far vestige of my mind I knew. Perhaps. I would like to believe I was not so naïve.
Pride will eternally be a human characteristic.
Prejudice, I am now coming to believe, may be equally eternal.
What possessed Jane Austen to title a love story with such malicious words will always be beyond my comprehension.
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