Horses

This is an interesting topic. Of which, in the off chance my rambling even has an audience, let alone a horse-enthusiast audience, I would be very curious to see if any of this is correct or if this girl was just shooting the breeze.

We were out and about, engaged in a very intense conversation with people we had just met. Talking, naturally, about the things you are never supposed to talk about with people you just met. Yes, religion and politics it is. Religion and politics, led to ethnicity, discrimination, voting policies and segregation.

We were talking about if when voting, a certain minimum level of education should be required. Can you really require a college education to vote? High school? We never reached a conclusion or decision on this issue, although, we did decide something. We decided that America does a pretty damn good job of trying to make everyone equal. There just seems to be the pesky, but ever so natural, segregation that gets in the way.

This is where the zinger comes in -- one of the girls mentioned she works with horses. She said that horses, when on their own tend to gravitate toward the familiar. The brown horses to the brown. The white to the white. The black to the black. It is the mixed horses that don't fit in with the brown, white or black. Why is this?

Are we as a society trying to change nature's tendencies? Maybe it just isn't normal for everyone to mix and get along. I found it very thought-provoking and interesting. I never would have guessed that animals segregate according to their physical features. This is something I hope to see with my own eyes to believe.

If it isn't the natural "animal"tendency to be attracted to what is different, why is it that sometimes we try so hard in our society to do so? We are far from a perfect world - and maybe this example with the horse should teach us something.

When forced to get along to give rides we can stand each other's presence, but when left to our own devices we'd prefer to be with something familiar. There is nothing wrong with this. I am sure there are exceptions for horses too, just as there are exceptions for humans.

Nonetheless, I found it interesting. A good, sit-down and think about it topic.