Do you first attempt to categorize and relate to him or her by what differentiates you from him or her - by categories of ethnicity, class, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc.? 

And then possibly seek to relate to him or her by what you share in common with him or her?

 

 

 

Or do you first attempt  to categorize and relate to him or her by what you share in common - in looking into his or her eyes you see yourself?

And then possibly seek to relate to him or her by what differentiates you from him or her?

 

 

What are the implications in these two different ways of first reactions to a perfect stranger?

 

 

 

 

In the first response to a stranger, how does "Jericho" play into this response, what is put into place between yourself and the other? 

What is the essential capacity infused in and essential to this relationship?   

What is more likely to follow from each way of reacting and relating to strangers?     

 

 

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