Tao Te Ching

“The English are great lovers of themselves, and of everything belonging to them; they think there are no other men than themselves, and no other world but England; and whenever they see a handsome foreigner they say that 'he looks like an Englishman,' and that it is a great pity that he is not.”

— Anonymous 1 via Venetian ambassador (1500 CE)
Freedom from the narrow boxes defined by personal history