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Wednesday, March 8, 2006
Flipping the switch
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
So tonight on the FX network is the premiere of a new show. Perhaps y’all have heard something about it — it’s called “Black.White” and the premise is simple: Two families, one white, one black, are given elaborate makeup jobs and asked to live in the other group’s situation for a certain amount of time.
The show has gotten its fair share of controversy and pre-release publicity, and many people are wondering how sensitively it will handle many of the issues innate in dealing with race in such a manner. But to me, the most interesting aspect of the show is what the participants will find to be the little things they didn’t expect to be different in everyday life, the places where their perspective is different and they didn’t even think about it.
I think dating could be one of those areas. Most of us are so concerned with the struggles we face in trying to find the One that we rarely consider how different aspects of society that don’t affect us personally might change the equation.
So here’s a fun fantasy question for y’all today: If you could switch places with one person or type of person to experience dating from their perspective, who would it be? Would you try to get inside the head of a member of the opposite gender? See what it’s like to date as a member of a different race, religion or culture? Try out the dating scene in a different city — New York, San Francisco, Miami, Paris, Tokyo? Is there a particular celebrity you’d love to switch places with for a certain reason?
What do you think you might learn from this experiment? What would you want to experience?
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