Has a person you met dramatically changed your views of human kind in an instant?

Question

Has a person you met dramatically changed your views of human kind in an instant?

Answer 1

Not instantly but i had a teacher that made me change my views not only on man kind but in all ways of life.

Answer 2

Not a living person no but many authors long dead have.

Answer 3

not humankind , but of a particular race, not dramatically changed though. its wrong to generalize.

Answer 4

yes. fortunately.

Answer 5

While I was working in Hong Kong, an influential Indian politician who drank in the same bar as me said that one day Indians would run the UK as we had run their country, and that we would never see it coming because we were too soft and our government had no national pride.

I havent liked Indians much since then.

Answer 6

No, it takes a long time for me to get to know anyone for him/her to be my friend. And I try not to let people change how I view humanity. I don't encounter too many people who are horrible people, so I've been lucky so far.

Answer 7

I have had the good fortune of travelling right around the world, and am consistently amazed at how wonderfully helpful, compassionate and honest people are.

Mostly.

I've never, however, run into a more xenophobic and hate-filled group than when hanging out with Republicans. Truthfully... There's such bitterness and anger in them. (It's very apparent on this board, too. Such venom spewed towards anything that's not in the right-wing mindset.) Maybe that's because they've been betrayed by Bush, or maybe it's just because they've been lied to over and over and over again... but never in my life, and in my experience, have I come across such bitterness and anger at virtually everything. It's very, very sad.

Answer 8

Sadly no.

Human kind still kinda sucks for me.

But hopefully one day i will meet someone who'll restore the faith. That person will probably be Canadian, because Canadians are rad.

Answer 9

Yes i no longer like farmers

Answer 10

no.

the rest of humanity would never cease to remind me of everything that one person changed my mind on.

over time, perhaps... because they become the most important thing, and all that matters. you have each other, and as long as you have that, it is irrelevant whatever anyone else thinks, says or does...

but when they go? i think you're always back to square one.

Answer 11

No...my standards are high.

Answer 12

I think there's been the odd few, one in particular that has stopped me stereotyping

Answer 13

Yes-Jesus Christ.