We’re All Very Much Alike
The actual differences between any people are tiny. If a billionaire owning-class person came into RC—none have, so far—and [two people from very different backgrounds and economic classes] got together with this billionaire and a skillful counselor to help them take turns being listened to, the three would very quickly discover that they’re fundamentally very, very much alike.
We’ve been paying attention in RC to our differences because these differences are where the patterns hang up, where the oppressions get their claws in. We have been tackling these oppressions and have done a pretty [quite] good job in many ways by paying attention to the difficulties for which our differences are used as an excuse.
The truth of the matter is, the differences between us are 1/100th of one percent, and the similarities are 99.99 percent. There is no person of a different color than you, there is no person of a different class background than you, there is no person of a different cultural background or a different age than you that you cannot understand easily, be completely close to, and enjoy a relationship with thoroughly. We’re all very, very much alike, and if we start acting like it, the barriers will crumble.
From page 21 of “The Fundamental Nature of RC,” in A Better World
(Present Time 209, October 2022)