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Pride and Prejudice

Started by Lowell Cremorne · 7 months ago

Since virtual environments started getting noticed by the early adopters, there has been some discussion about social mores in and out of virtual environments. In particular this applies to users trying out avatars of a different gender, race, or overall look, to their regular atomic world ... Continue reading »

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  • I agree that the world we come to should indeed be better than the one, *points behind* we came from. Especially when we have the ability to make choices without fear of reprisal to our virtual selves. I guess we repeat patterns ingrained from many sources wherever we go.
    However I would also like to think that acceptance can also be accelerated in the virtual world, and that we can break patterns of prejudice more easily inworld than out, because we are more unusual than average for adopting these worlds to inhabit to begin with.

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