<>So, I know we are socials animals, pack animals and we like to be tightly bound to a pack. That we are parts of races and ethnicities and different varieties of the same species and that is what brings us together as social animals, but those slight variations of skin color, language, and manners really shouldn't separate us on a hateful level. They shouldn't pit one group against another. Underneath everything we are all human beings. We really are all quite the same, all capable of laughing and crying and feeling pain and falling apart and going crazy and falling in love. No race is really superior to any other. But that is hard to see. I realize. And things would just be too easy (or maybe too hard) if we all tried to get along and be nice to each other based on the simple principle we are all Homo sapiens.

It's too bad though. I feel myself hardening to the British because of the hardening I feel they have towards me as a female, fair-skinned American, or traveller or whatever (I can't really tell which). And I told myself I really wouldn't be the kind of person that stereotypes a group or ethnicity based on a few people. But just feeling the animosity or indifference of an entire culture aimed at you because of a stereotyped culture that you happen to be a part of only makes loving seem harder. And travelling harder at that.

But right now I am in Scotland and at an Inn with wonderfully nice and open owners and I feel much better. Yet, I still feel wherever this trip may lead me it will be a lesson in being human, in hate and love, and what it is to be a pack animal.