An Indian's Looking Glass

An Indian's Looking Glass was this week's reading that impacted my thoughts the most.  How horrible they were treated just because they weren't "white" and they looked different from the Europeans that came and intruded into their land anyway.  One of the quotes that made me think, "why do humans feel the need to be better than others?" was this one: "Another reason is because those men who are Agents, many of them are unfaithful and care not whether the Indians live or die, they are much imposed upon by their neighbors, who have no principle." This made me think of the issues still going on today such as some people believing that gay people are different than the "normal" human being, therefore they cannot have the same rights are heterosexual people.  Also, the issues of immigration. For example, some Americans look down on immigrants because they might have a different skin color and may have different features than the average white American person.  And this is exactly what happened to the Native Americans and now this land is barely even theirs too.   How hateful can we be towards each other just because we may look different?? After all, we do all have the same insides!

So I ask you: How do you treat people that look different from you?