Re:Another Thought...(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.02.11 0:48 (#14687626) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.02.09 7:19)
Back in my twenties, we'd had a foreign student from the Philipines, nomally we didn't have any students from the Philipines, basically because of the economic gap, few people could come and stay, but his father was a famous doctor back in his country, so he was able to come. He and I were not on good terms with one another, so I generalised like Filipino is like him.
At age 31, I got married to my first love - she's a Filipina, and we went to the Philipines and stayed there for a while, naturally I'd got a number of Filipino friends, my fixed idea about Filipino was totally changed.
Again back in my twenties, while I was travelling across the USA, near Washington D.C. I saw an Asian guy in a greyhound bus. From the way he behaved, from the ambience he gave off, I thouhgt he must be a Japanese, so I asked him whether he is Japanese. The moment he said he's Korean, I thought I was not supposed to talk to him, since I had a fixed idea about Korean at that time. But we talked a lot and he let me stay in his appartment for 6 days, after I encountered him my idea was totally changed.
I must say a river without a bridge only exists in our mind.
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