...(answering a question with a question) - have you ever wondered what Mudcat and the world would be like if people didn't categorize or pigeonhole themselves based on skin color or ethnic or cultural origins?

So - how do you know anything racially or ethnically about anyone on a forum such as Mudcat unless s/he makes it a point to distinguish themselves by mentioning it?   

Unless you can see through the screen to the person at the keyboard, Mudcat is color-blind. Ethnic and cultural differences might be a little easier to spot based on the turn of a phrase - "now ain't that a whoopin'" - or an exclamation - Oy Ve! - or the humorous - or humourous - way someone spells. But words themselves carry no indication of racial or ethnic heritage, as long as the homogenization of the English language taught in school is adhered to, y'all.

That's one of the advantages of the written word: no biased associations unless the reader consciously ascribes some to them. Not who says it but what's being said ...hmmm, that sounds familiar.


Peace out! to mis amigos in Wes' 'by God' Virginny....