Blooming Voices Podcast
Do you listen to all the experts on podcasts and think, “no wonder they’re experts; they’re awesome, they’re smart, they’re....” Stop right there! You’re awesome!You have a story to tell, and there really is no one like you. Embrace your story. Celebrate yourself. Of course we all have room for growth, and no one is ever done growing. Just because you don’t know the answer to something today doesn’t make you a loser or does it? Naaa, of course it doesn’t! It makes you a human on life’s journey, just learning new things day to day! The more you know, the more you know what you don’t know. You're a little bud in the process of blooming... ready to share your truth and grow.Join two halves of two twin pairs as we share inspiring stories and a variety of perspectives about identity. We talk about our own unique backgrounds and how it unravels in the pursuit of finding identity, individuality, and an authentic voice. Religion, confrontations, twin questions, equality, being voice over artists, entrepreneurship, travel, movies... nothing is off limits! A true variety of topics and questions is how we grow best.
Blooming Voices Podcast
Episode 18 - Tolerance
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Jordan Drayer and Dalia Ramahi
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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Jordan shares her experience in the growth of tolerance from young age to adulthood, and the twins talk about how tolerance in general is necessary for life in our pluralistic world.
Takeaways:
- Racism and intolerance is willful ignorance and denial of other human beings.
- Exposure to other ethnicities, religions, etc. is so necessary from an early age, but it’s never too late.
- It should not be your responsibility to make someone else from another ethnic/religious group feel safe around you.
- Accepting others as they are does not negate your existence.
- We are all the same on the inside. “Here at NASA, we all pee yellow.” - Hidden Figures
- If people choose to look at people as “other,” we dehumanize them.
- Dehumanizing people who are not like you creates an environment of mistrust that has proven to lead to very dangerous and deadly outcomes.
- Demeaning a group for “jokes” is just not funny and can be confusing. It opens the door for others adopting stereotypes.
- Be curious about people. Consider the human being behind the behavior. Tolerance starts with ourselves.
- Whether it’s Mussar or other spiritual practices, curiosity about others can open the door to eventual acceptance of who they are.
- “Be green and growing, or ripe and rotting.” Your choice.
Links
- https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/jul/24/no-joke-ironic-racism-in-comedy-is-just-not-funny-little-britain-borat
- https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Ironic%20Racism
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2017/08/25/a-c-span-caller-confessed-his-racism-to-a-black-guest-a-year-later-he-called-back-to-say-how-hed-changed/
- https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/uk/19/04/talking-race-and-ethnicity
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