I am a white woman who was married to a black South African man for 18 years and I wore my babies like my sisters-in-laws and my child's caregiver taught me to do. I grew up watching television programmes and movies showing Native Americans wearing babies and wondered why my mother and aunts didn't do the same. It is good for both mom and baby and convenient for transporting baby and doing household tasks. As I get older I realize that many things white people once considered primitive are now proven to be far superior to so-called modern methods. "Othering" has hurt other people, disadvantaged us and kept us the primitive ones - the world is paying the price for that misplaced hubris. Poetic justice, I guess, but the cause of so much unnecessary conflict.