What If...

It's sad to hear about the difficulties Adrienne Rich went through due to her father's intolerance in accepting and following the Jewish faith and tradition. His reasoning is understandable though, with the nonacceptance of Jews by people at this time, especially the Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan. It makes me wonder, what if people had been more accepting? Right now, I'm taking a class on diversity in the classroom and how this should be dealt with; before now, I never completely realized how much of an effect this really has on people. Human beings tend to not be very accepting of those different than themselves, if we could learn to throw out the stereotypes though and be accepting of others, no matter what their background, imagine what kind of effect this could have in society. If we had learned how to not judge those different than ourselves, imagine how differently Adrienne Rich's story would have turned out.