Are you xenophobic?
Before you answer that question, let me share with you its meaning.
If not literally, it means one who is anxious of what others (sometimes from
foreign cultures) think of him. Such a person would invariably try to go out of
the way to please others, so that his impression remains positive. Now answer
the question.
To a large extent, I am like that. On the surface, I would
strongly assert, “I don’t care who thinks what”, but deep inside, I am
concerned. I may go to the extent of dressing in a particular way, or trying to
raise the correct topics, etc just to please someone, whereas the recipient of
this attention would neither notice, or make any such effort to please me.
I don’t want to hurt anyone intentionally. So even if I am
feeling not very excited about it, I tend to comply (sometimes to desires that
have not been expressed at all). As a result, I tend to be taken for granted
and my opinion is sometimes overlooked.
I am trying to do some self-counselling even while I write
this. Are you like me?
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