All of a sudden I thought of sociology when...

I was walking through the mall a few days ago when I noticed an Indian woman wearing an elaborate headdress. I turned to my friend and said, "that looks so weird." I couldn't help but let the words slip from my mouth. Here I am complaining about how people are so stereotypical and rude towards people who dress differently, and I can't keep my mouth shut about it. That kind of depresses me. How America is supposedly this wondrous melting pot, but if you happen to dress a little differently, you're weird. We're extremely ethnocentric people when it comes to our opinions. If something doesn't look right to us, it's wrong. Hopefully the fact that I recognized how ethnocentric my comment was means I'm one step closer to fully accepting all types of behavior.