Originally Posted by jenni-m

One world, multiple facets and sub cultures.

We are ALL completely equal in one way:
Each one of us alone is like an insignificant mote of dust compared to the universe. Not even a blink in the passage of all time.

But yet human life still has value. Life is one of our greatest treasures. It does not matter that we are so tiny, we overcome that by having thought, and emotion, and when we work together... we can accomplish things much greater than one could alone.

None of us are perfect, perfection cannot be achieved... but every time we make progress, we come closer to it.

It is so easy for people to get caught up in themselves, and not see what really goes on with others. I too have this problem. But really, life is too short to fight about things needlessly. The average person spends a third of their life sleeping, and close to another third working (some people have to spend a lot more just trying to survive)

When we spend time doing something to hurt someone, that is one less positive thing we could have done in life. We cannot get that time back again, ever. It also takes up that other persons time, giving them another negative experience they would rather not have had.

But anyway, to answer the question:

Personally, while it is nice to communicate with others who I can relate to, I do not intentionally place myself in any sub culture. Being deaf does not cause me to be in a deaf world. Blindness does not cause me to be in a blind world. Using a wheelchair does not cause me to be in a wheelchair world. We are all part of -one- multi cultural world.