Originally Posted by
gerv
To me, it's like riding the bus vs cycling/driving. If I only get around on by car or bike, I have quite a few notions about how the world is structured. However, take the bus and you run into quite a few disabled, poor, lunatic... or whatever... the world is full of them. That's why it's often difficult to take the bus.... reality is a little too close.
I kind of like to take the bus sometimes , partly for pretty much this reason. When you ride the bus, you encounter people that you might never even see otherwise. It makes other groups seem more real; if you see a Latino woman get on the bus with her two small children, try to keep them entertained along the way, drop them off at day care, and then get back on the bus to go to her job at a hotel downtown, it puts a much more human face on the immigrant debate.