Absolutely,Prawn Connery wrote:It's never too late to change your views. I was a racist little fuck growing up. Privileged parents and grandparents who fought in the wars: Japan, Malaya, Korea, Vietnam – and all the refugees who came to Australia afterwards. Everyone in my family hated anyone who wasn't white, and I followed suit. But then I travelled the world and saw that most people were just like everyone else: providing for their families, educating their kids, keeping their sense of humour and just trying to make amliving. There was always someone from a different background who reminded me of someone else back home – same personality, different skin and language. Culture has a lot to answer for, because it breeds contempt.Intrinsic wrote:As in the movie South Pacific song:
You've got to be taught
To hate
And fear
You've got to be taught
From year
To year
Its got to
Be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to
Be carefully
Taught
You've got to be taught
To be
Afraid
Of people
Who's eyes are oddly made
And people who's skin is a different shade
You've got to
Be carefuly
Taught
You've got to be taught
Before it's too late
Before you are six
Or seven
Or eight
To hate all the people
Your relatives hate
You've got to
Be carefully taught
You've got to
Be carefully taught
Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains the Same.
Man that jogs a memory, remember being in rural Mexico alone, smoking weed with some vatos and noticing they are just templates of people I grew up with in high school.
I believe the point of the song, she's singing, she herself was caught in bigotry, her Crush had mixed children. Breaking from it, realizing it's not natural, it has to be taught, as she was.