by
Linda Lau
In the small town of Roswell, New Mexico, a small village of clones
live as a community rejected by the rest of society. As if they were a disease, local
city-dwellers, stay away from them and refuse to include them in the public accessed
works. Not only do they not get to vote, but they are also being segregated from the
colleges and the company jobs. There are some rumors that city-dwellers want the clones to
have a mark of their cloneage on their identification. After an entire century aiming to
dissolve racial segregation, is the only end product segregation by biological
differences?
This is not the only small village of clones that exists in the United
States. In fact, there are some twenty or so other possibly hidden clone communities. Dr.
Seymour Dual, an expert in sociology states that basically, the clone communities may
start out with no more than four to five clones but after a while, when the percentage of
clones in an area increases to higher than 9%, the other humans start moving out.
This is a horrible aspect of society that still needs to be corrected.
Dr. Dual explains this occurrence as "a result of fear people have of clones."
She further explains that "long implanted into the minds [of people], are the
misleading ideas of what clones are; through science fiction books and movies, many
believe that clones are similar to zombies, walking people with no brains and used by evil
dictators. However, this is not true." A real clone is like any regular human
being-the only difference is that he of she would have an identical twin a generation
older.
Unless seen with the older counterpart, a person cannot really identify
a clone from the ordinary city-dweller. If people understand this point, then it would be
one step closer to peace. Already, there have been complaints written to the state
representatives to bring this up in Congress
