--- description: They’ll choose acceptance title: Cindy Crawford: I Hope Our Kids Will Not Focus on Otherness image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2e3466e83f7082b1/6988643f0b72e3ef9a6e5e28/qe-color-overlay-template-cindy-crawford.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Sep 18, 2015 # I Hope Our Kids Will Not Focus on Otherness by Cindy Crawford  NEW YORK, NY - JULY 10: Actor Haley Joel Osment discusses his new series "The Spoils Before Dying" at AOL Studios In New York on July 10, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Adela Loconte/WireImage) NEW YORK, NY - JULY 10: Actor Haley Joel Osment discusses his new series "The Spoils Before Dying" at AOL Studios In New York on July 10, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Adela Loconte/WireImage)Getty Images; Photo illustration by Alex Thebez for TIME I was listening to the news when driving my daughter to school, and thought of how divided and divisive the world is right now. We’re all in our own little camps. Think of the cantina scene from _Star Wars_: the different species of aliens are sitting together, and they’re all equal. I hope when we look back, we’ll be horrified by the judgments we make on skin color or country of origin or sexual identity. We’ll be horrified by how we focused on otherness instead of what makes us all human. In my kids, I see acceptance. Kids are not born seeing otherness. They’re born open. The rest gets trained into us by watching the news, our own parents and how people react. And all of that is rooted in insecurity. As a parent, I try to lead by example and instill in my children self-confidence while showing my own vulnerability. And as a model, I know it can sometimes make women feel less-than. I try to remind people that if wearing lipstick and high heels makes you feel good, then do it. And if it doesn’t, don’t do it. _Crawford is a model, an activist and the author of_ Becoming. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/question-everything/4029872/cindy-crawford-what-common-practice-will-horrify-our-kids-someday/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/question-everything/4029872/cindy-crawford-what-common-practice-will-horrify-our-kids-someday/"},"headline":"Cindy Crawford: I Hope Our Kids Will Not Focus on Otherness","datePublished":"2015-09-18T16:53:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:09:13.980Z","description":"They’ll choose acceptance","url":"https://time.com/collections/question-everything/4029872/cindy-crawford-what-common-practice-will-horrify-our-kids-someday/","keywords":["Question Everything"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2e3466e83f7082b1/6988643f0b72e3ef9a6e5e28/qe-color-overlay-template-cindy-crawford.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2e3466e83f7082b1/6988643f0b72e3ef9a6e5e28/qe-color-overlay-template-cindy-crawford.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/question-everything/4029872/cindy-crawford-what-common-practice-will-horrify-our-kids-someday/","name":"Cindy Crawford: I Hope Our Kids Will Not Focus on Otherness"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Question Everything: What Common Practice Will Horrify Our Kids?","description":"TIME hit the streets to ask New Yorkers several offbeat questions designed to provoke and prod the brain.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/7WrV5AhX/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-09-18T14:46:51.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/7WrV5AhX.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/collections/question-everything/4029872/cindy-crawford-what-common-practice-will-horrify-our-kids-someday/","duration":"PT1M4S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/collections/question-everything/4029872/cindy-crawford-what-common-practice-will-horrify-our-kids-someday/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```