When I was a kid, I didn't understand how the swastika could be seen because the TV show Hogan's Heroes had trivialized it for me. It wasn't until the school principal gave me a talking to that I began to see it from a broader perspective.
And, ultimately, broadening our perspectives is what both education and diversity is about. It gives us, collectively, greater strength than any one of us. Someone who doesn't know something, yet, is an opportunity.
https://xkcd.com/1053/
George Dinwiddie
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