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OK, so I've been reading profiles again. A whole lot of people seem to take pride in (or at least be amused by) being different from those around them.
So, my usual question came up-- what if everyone else had the trait that makes you different? Would you want to change the trait then?
But then, I started wondering this:
If you were offered a large sum of money to live for a year or two in a community of people "like you," what traits would you want to have in common with your community?
I'm assuming that some of the less important things would be mutable if everyone else had them (i.e. "I got these frames for my glasses because they're unique"-- if everyone else had them, you might have chosen something else for its unique value) but I also think some folks might like, for a while, to live in an environment where something about them was in the majority.
So, what'll it be?
So, my usual question came up-- what if everyone else had the trait that makes you different? Would you want to change the trait then?
But then, I started wondering this:
If you were offered a large sum of money to live for a year or two in a community of people "like you," what traits would you want to have in common with your community?
I'm assuming that some of the less important things would be mutable if everyone else had them (i.e. "I got these frames for my glasses because they're unique"-- if everyone else had them, you might have chosen something else for its unique value) but I also think some folks might like, for a while, to live in an environment where something about them was in the majority.
So, what'll it be?
