In her 1984 work, Sister Outsider, author and poet Audre Lorde writes:...we have all been programmed to respond to the human differences between us with fear and loathing and to handle that difference in one of three ways: ignore it, and if that is not possible, copy it if we think it is dominant, or destroy it if we think it is subordinate. But we have no patterns for relating across our human differences as equals. As a result, those differences have been misnamed and misused in the service of separation and confusion.
How has the Church responded to human/cultural differences in these three ways (ignore, copy, destroy)? How might the Church develop new patterns by which relationships between different people groups can be fostered?
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