We Fear What We Don't Know
Let's try to be better Americans today. Let's start with a different kind of Facebook Quiz.
The United States of America has 50 states, but it has at least 50 different points of view on the world around us. Give yourself a star for each time you answered "yes" to any of the following questions.
Are you friends with a teacher?
Do you have a friend who works in a factory?
Are you friends with a small business owner?
Do you know someone who makes their living through the arts?
Are you friends with a police officer?
Have you visited a prisoner or been one yourself?
Have you talked to someone who works in the CIA?
Are you friends with a refugee?
Do you know someone who died of hunger?
Do you know someone who works in the oil/energy industry?
Have you talked with someone who has taken up arms against their own country?
Do you know anyone who works at NASA?
Have you been to Europe?
Have you been to Asia?
Have you been to South America?
Have you been to Africa?
Have you been to Australia?
Have you been in a country that was at war?
Do you know someone well who is/was in the military?
Do you know someone personally who died in a war?
Have you been to a mosque?
Have you been to a Jewish temple?
Do you know a religious leader (e.g., priest, rabbi, bishop, imam)?
Do you know a local politician personally?
Do you know a state or federal-level politician personally?
Have you volunteered for an elected official?
Do you know a librarian?
Are you friends with someone in a same-sex marriage?
Do you know someone who uses heroin?
Do you know someone who has died of a drug overdose?
Are you friends with a lawyer?
Are you friends with a scientist?
Are you friends with someone who works in the federal government?
Are you friends with a real-estate agent?
Are you friends with a journalist?
Are you friends with someone on welfare?
Are you friends with someone who is or used to be homeless?
Are you friends with someone in a polyamorous relationship?
Are you friends with a gun owner?
Do you know someone who lives in Palestine?
Do you know someone who lives in Israel?
Do you know someone who lives in Russia?
Do you know someone who lives in Ukraine?
Do you know someone who is or has been a political prisoner?
Do you know someone who has been arrested for protesting?
Do you know someone who has adopted a child?
Do you know someone who wants children but can't have them?
Do you know someone who has children and didn't want to?
Do you know someone who has had an abortion?
Have you ever judged someone on this list?
