I get the irony, and I was playing on it.
Luna I think you brought up connectedness of consciousness, right? Well people's perceptions are linked as part of the collective consciousness. We communicate most clearly when the (1) idea or spirit of our thoughts align with the (2) perception of this meaning and (3) the expression and interpretation of it. All three levels need to align in order to convey clearly from one person to another. The other person also has 3 levels. It's really 6 layers trying to align on the same page.
The key I learned to focus on is that our personal biases affect the perception level, and this bias gets projected onto how we see or say things. This colors how we interpret others, and vice versa: other people are also projecting their biases. So that is why we as humans have to work so hard to understand the other person's bias that we don't have, and vice versa. In order to work around this, to be able to communicate despite our differences in perception and bias. it takes work.
My parents are native Vietnamese, settled in the US 15 years before most of the Vietnamese arrived. My dad founded the first Vietnamese Buddhist Temple in the Houston area, established for immigrants after the Fall of Saigon.
As for me, I was born in Galveston, Texas, and moved to Houston to go to Rice University. Classmates used to make fun of my Texas accent. One guy told me I looked like a badly dubbed karate movie, and laughed at me every time I talked.
