When Perspectives Shift

March 30, 2008 - 3:30 PM by

One thing gleaned from years spent in San Francisco: Stereotyping based upon a person’s gender, sexual orientation, religious affiliation or background leaves little room for the unexpected, a shift in perspective, potential growth or a simple “doesn’t fit the mold” scenario.

Case in point: Out of the box initiator Jerusalem Wanderings, a blogging settler living across the green line, decided to organize meetings between people within her community – that would be Jewish settlers – and neighboring Palestinians.

They had a first get-together in February and another will soon follow.

The response from fellow settlers has been positive.

“I advertised the second meeting on our local e-mail list. I didn’t get one hate mail.

Instead, I met another woman waiting at the bus stop who told me “I’m doing such wonderful things.” She looks like the typical settler woman, wearing a long skirt and head-covering. I didn’t expect such a wide smile from her …”

BBC Radio is covering the meetings and a “top university researcher” will go to meeting #2 to witness events as they unfold.

You-Go-Girl. We already know what can be accomplished by the power of One.

Tags: • Category: Blogging, History and Culture, Politics 

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3 Comments on When Perspectives Shift

  1. David-Joe on Sun, Mar 30th 2008 11:33 PM

    2. Problem is that people getting along is not the issue. They can smile and chat and so on – they will still smile and be friendly as they deny medinat Israel’s right to exist and the contained right of the Jewish people to eretz Israel.

  2. Stephanie on Mon, Mar 31st 2008 4:15 AM

    3. D-Joe it’s a step toward forthcoming behavior. Were we all to adhere to the “they will act hence, thus why should I?” formula, nothing would ever advance due to a pre-supposed justification of how “the other” supposedly thinks or acts. People getting together IS the issue. Getting together lends a face to & humanizes the “other”

  3. lirun on Tue, Apr 1st 2008 12:37 PM

    4. sounds like a great project

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