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  %UNDIFFERENTIATED GUILT SHAME BLACK SEXUAL HONEST+950822
     %OPEN AFFECTIONATE PERCEPTIVE RELIGIOUS JEWISH 950822

     Often people have been made to feel guilty or ashamed
for  aspects  of  themselves which are not  of  their  own
choice and/or not appropriate to call into question.  Such
undifferentiated  guilt/shame  is not  healthy,   helpful,
integrative,  or worthy of respect; e.g.,  when it focuses
upon:


     A person's race,

     A person's ethnic background,

     A person's sex,

     A person's sexual affinities,

     A person's national origin,

     A person's hereditary characteristics,

     A person's clear perceptions and articulations,

     A person's openness and honesty,

     A person's affectionate character.

     Undifferentiated   guilt/shame   is  engendered   for
manipulative   purposes  which  are  coercive,    violent,
alienative  and disintegrative.   The people who  engender
such  shame,  and the shame which they engender,   do  not
merit respect or support.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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