> I know > 10 people well into their 80's, none of them give a damn about such stuff, that's more for the people who are on the edge between being old and bein

> I know > 10 people well into their 80's, none of them give a damn about such stuff, that's more for the people who are on the edge between being old and being young. I'm middle eastern, and I've largely been tempered to a point of submission about anti-middle-eastern sentiment until someone directly or indirectly cites such ambivalence or submission as a reason to perpetuate that casual disrespect towards people of my background. And then I get pretty pissed. Let's not condone casual bigotry just because some members of a population have come to terms with its current inevitability.