strangers.., .. we're getting more alienated...

it seems to me that people have been getting more and more alienated from strangers, and that problems with strangers still increase.
when my mum was a child, they were told never to go with a stranger, but it was fine to talk to them, and you would say hello to anyone you met.
i have been taught to not even talk to strangers.
to stay away from them like the plague.
the schools i've been to all encourage this attitude- to expect the worst from anyone we don't know.
because of this change in attitude we don't even know our neighbours two houses down. we know the people living directly to our left and right, but nobody else down our road.
apparently when we first moved here it was 6 months before we even met our neighbours to our right.
this is why racism is getting worse- at least one of the reasons.
strangers are something to fear, so someone who is both a stranger and looks different is someone to be doubly feared, and because we don't like fearing anything, people often tend to react with hatred.
how can schools expect us to be unprejudiced when they teach us to not even speak to strangers?
how can we ever know them if we don't speak to them?


how is it with your area?
do you know your neighbours?
were you taught to fear the strangers?

 

Fuck Everyone..they All Can Stay Away From My Kids..i Can't Trust Anyone

 

my area is very private. i hardly ever will say hi to someone i dont know - not unless they have said hi to me first really. we weren;t taught to fear strangers but to not trust them. we know our immediate neighbours,

- a very old demented lady who i think has been put in the home now,
- a mentally ill middle aged man who is obsessive with collecting junk, his swimming pool has no water in it, its been stacked high with crap for about 18 years. you look in the windows of his house and you cant see in coz the cardboard boxes filled with his crap block the view.
- a family who just moved in recently, young parents and young obnoxious kids
- an older man and his wife who constantly are complaining to the council
- used to be a family of absolute freaks, total assholes, but they left about 3 years ago and now theres an ugly grey multistory apartment block, unfortunately this is the side we have our nice water views on, now we can see 5% of the view we once had. bastards

these are my neighbours.. i dont have any interest in meeting any more of them. ive had quite enough already.

 

I learned that sometimes it was good to talk to strangers because you can acquire useful information or at least alleviation of boredom for a couple of minutes. Basically, as you get older it depends on how well you can judge character. First impressions aren't everything.

 

ive had some bad experiences with strangers talking to me, telling me they want to rip my arms and legs off. you dont forget shit like that.

 

Agreed, but a line must be drawn. I've seen some very outgoing people who want to talk to everyone within a few feet of them. The over-generous ones are suspect, the quiet ones are suspect.

Timing.

 

We are all strangers to the rest of the world, and even within ... how well do we know our own selfes.

Whatever believe patterns are ingrained in our heads, we are still free to expect the best from others instead of the worst ... and see each is their own universe, strange and unique, precious, and full of wonder. They are all strangers within on their way home. They are all walking their own experience, and this is what it is and in this we are all equal. They are the answers we seeked throughout ages and times. They are reflections of the way we look at them, and deeper inside ourselfes. But how far do we dare to reach out.

So no matter how they look like, talk and walk they are spirit in essence. And unless we see that I guess we all might feel a bit alienated.

Maybe the worst thing is our own confining ourselfes and falling prey to the thrills of fear, and not trust into our own true potential.

 

Near my area, Paul Bernardo and Karla Holmolka posed as a normal young couple asking for directions. They even had a map out.....when a young girl would get close enough to the car, they pulled her in. That was their method. After they caught them, they found out he was also the Scarborough Rapist.

Last year a 10 year old girl disappeared in broad daylight while walking home. They found her less than 24 hours later in chopped in pieces.

In my area, we have several prisons. Paul Bernardo in in my town. He is never getting out, but he's here.

You just can't afford for that to be your kid. The freaks are braver than they were in the 1950's. They blend in so much better now, they can just go out, pick what they want and take it home....