ix. Final Blog

I came up with this blog while I was eating sushi, so probably ideas of other (regarding to food) and exotic probably coursed through my subconscious and I grabbed a napkin and wrote down these thoughts, which I am reproducing here:
Is being attracted to the Other only a sociological defined imperative or could there possibly be some physiological basis for such proclivities in societies. In a fairly recent medical journal, I think it was in JAMA or some such journal??, a test was conducted where several women smelled t-shirts men had worn around for a couple of hours. The objective was for each woman to choose a shirt from the samples that she thought smelled “best/good.” Having compiled all the date, scientists found a pattern that the women tended to designate best/good to shirts that belonged to men whom were more genetically dissimilar than the individual designating woman.
Of course sometimes the “Other” is so sociologically implanted as too different, that it can be unappealing. I remember the scene in The Gods Must Be Crazy where the bushman protagonist spies the white female anthropologist undressing behind some bushes and she quickly covers up her body from his “gaze.” The irony is that the whole time he was looking at her he was merely reflecting how unattractively maggot-colored this woman’s skin was.

That’s all folks. And I must say, that it has been…