I was thinking again about prejudices..........and the handshake. Is it prejudices or social conditioning ? Do you think it's anything to do with "the telling". Researchers have investigated people in N.I and have documented "the telling" which means we ask 2 or 3 questions and can immediately assume someones identity.
i.e. whats your name?
where did you do to school, etc, etc, etc,
They also researched that this was very useful in times of conflict as a safety device to protect individuals. We have been conditioned and socialised to assume certain things if we see or hear certain actions. Is it time to move beyond those socialised attitudes?
Can you feel change in the air?
One thing that struck me again about the RUA exhibition was a plack on the wall which said you cannot see memory, the thing is it's still hanging in peoples hearts and minds in NI and it's very understandable.Is it possible to move beyond it? Many people ask is it safe to?
I think it is, you just have to keep chipping away at it................ but I'm an optimist.
(Anyway sorry if I panicked anyone about some of the paper works at the exhibition, it was a few things on thin drawing paper.........................no prints that I could tell of)
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