All it takes to understand a human is to be one...
Insider or Outsider? Is there really a boundary between both and if so where does it start and where does it end? Can there really be a clear-cut classification of each category? What unit of measure could possibly quantify the position as an insider or outsider? Is it skin color? If that the case then does it mean that a black person can write about blacks better than a white person does? Could one possibly agree that a black person coming from a wealthy family could understand and describe the misery of the poor better than a white person who comes from the same misery? Could one who has never experienced the cries of an empty stomach know better than someone who goes to bed and wakes up feeling the pangs of hunger? If we all agree that the poor one knows better about poverty than seems like the initial question if race was
the unit of measurement gets a strong "no" answer, the key word being the word 'better'. Is it social class then? If following the same reasoning as above a poor white person does not experience the same difficulties as a poor black person so seems like our answer is narrowing down even more to smaller and smaller groups. So till now we are at the point of a combination of race and social class. How about family background? Does a black poor person who has led a poor but happy family life knows better than a black poor person who has suffered father's drinking or abuse? Of course not. So our answer narrows down more to race, social class and family circumstances... How many people in this world fall under any of these categories separately? How many people are only black or only poor or only abused? Millions... How many are
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