Comments on: It’s Turtle Time! Hatching Turtles at La Tortuga Feliz http://www.carrieandjonathan.com/its-turtle-time-hatching-turtles-at-la-tortuga-feliz/ What if the purpose of life is to create an amazing adventure? Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:57:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jonathan Kraft http://www.carrieandjonathan.com/its-turtle-time-hatching-turtles-at-la-tortuga-feliz/comment-page-1/#comment-6281 Jonathan Kraft Tue, 26 Apr 2011 10:59:52 +0000 http://carrieandjonathan.com/?p=148#comment-6281 I just read back and looked at this comment. Please forgive my delayed reply. I wouldn't want to eat at McDonald's. In 1 1/2 years of traveling the world, I think I've seen a McDonald's in almost every country we've been in, and we've gotten french fries twice, while waiting in airports. So in answer to the bigger question - who causes the feelings of inferiority? I now think that the question has been answered for me. The person feeling inferior is equally as responsible as the person imposing their ideas as superior. Once can not exist without the other. Who is more responsible is not the point. Both people are equally complicit in allowing or creating the superiority of one person over another. I just read back and looked at this comment. Please forgive my delayed reply.

I wouldn’t want to eat at McDonald’s. In 1 1/2 years of traveling the world, I think I’ve seen a McDonald’s in almost every country we’ve been in, and we’ve gotten french fries twice, while waiting in airports.

So in answer to the bigger question – who causes the feelings of inferiority?

I now think that the question has been answered for me. The person feeling inferior is equally as responsible as the person imposing their ideas as superior. Once can not exist without the other.

Who is more responsible is not the point. Both people are equally complicit in allowing or creating the superiority of one person over another.

]]> By: Sue Zamora http://www.carrieandjonathan.com/its-turtle-time-hatching-turtles-at-la-tortuga-feliz/comment-page-1/#comment-205 Sue Zamora Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:58:19 +0000 http://carrieandjonathan.com/?p=148#comment-205 It is my experience that feelings of inferiority as a culture are not "chosen" at all. They are imposed by the dominating, more powerful culture either blatently and intentionally (think Christian prostelitizing, for example) or maybe slightly more subltly (as in the advertising of say, huge multi-national corperations, such as Nestle)or by a lot of us in very subtle ways by imposing or values, etc on others without even intending to. (i.e. just because our culture tends to be the dominate one we accept and impose all kinds of choices and assumptions without even thinking about it; Everything from that Democracy is obviously the best way for a nation to govern itself, to "Who wouldn't want to eat McDonald's?") It is my experience that feelings of inferiority as a culture are not “chosen” at all. They are imposed by the dominating, more powerful culture either blatently and intentionally (think Christian prostelitizing, for example) or maybe slightly more subltly (as in the advertising of say, huge multi-national corperations, such as Nestle)or by a lot of us in very subtle ways by imposing or values, etc on others without even intending to. (i.e. just because our culture tends to be the dominate one we accept and impose all kinds of choices and assumptions without even thinking about it; Everything from that Democracy is obviously the best way for a nation to govern itself, to “Who wouldn’t want to eat McDonald’s?”)

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