If a Five-Year-Old Is Capable of Seeing Things from Another Perspective...

By Nikki Massaro Kauffman on June 7, 2008 12:16 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

We were watching Star Wars today (again, at Jude's request), and Karenna looked at the strange characters on the screen.

"Are they aliens?" she asked.
"Yes, I answered. Then I added, "Well, technically, all the Star Wars characters are.  Since none of the Star Wars characters are from Earth, they are aliens."
"What does alien mean?"
"It can mean not from Earth or not from our country," I explained. "So they call people born in a country other than the United States aliens."
"We're aliens to them," she said.

I wonder how many adults are capable of seeing things this way.

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