The Other, 1996

 Introduction and Contents

THE OTHER

August, 1996

 

The need for ‘the other’

Unable to define ourselves

we need an ‘other’ that we are not

 

We are not like ‘them’

not female

not black

not poor

not Jewish...Moslem...

 

...So we are male

white

rich

and Christian

 

This gives superior difference

We are, therefore, better than

 

Then all that happens to ‘the other’

is...unfortunate

perhaps deserved

and...certainly not my concern

© A. Maie, 1996

Comments

  1. Powerful in its simplicity & implications, Annette. The need to see the other as inferior, a judgement, strikes me as a defence against fear of the other, which suggests to me an unconscious sense of inadequacy.

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