{"id":84,"date":"2022-03-30T14:19:47","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T14:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/?p=84"},"modified":"2022-03-30T14:19:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T14:19:47","slug":"on-cats-and-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/shorts\/on-cats-and-people\/","title":{"rendered":"On Cats and People"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I saw this cat in a Mumbai market, I thought (obviously), “a cat.” What I didn’t think was, “an Indian cat.”<\/p>\n

Yet when I saw people in Mumbai, I thought, “Indian people.”<\/p>\n

This raises the question of whether cats or people are more similar across cultures and continents.<\/p>\n

On one hand, it’s an easy cliche to claim that “all people are the same.” And the reason it’s an easy cliche is that most of us don’t act as though we believe it. Instead, we generally act as though we can learn something about people by where they are from.<\/p>\n

And as to the cats, how would we know? Is there an Indian feline mentality?<\/p>\n

\"Mumbai<\/a>
A Cat in India or an Indian Cat?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"Mumbai<\/a>
A Man in India or an Indian Man?<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nMy non-cliche, perhaps non-PC answer is that — despite all we have in common — people differ more than cats.<\/p>\n

What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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