I think it is hard for most people to be open minded because of cultural barriers, religious barriers, language and lack of education and also reference points on various issues of day to day life such as family imposed, society imposed, faiths imposed and some of our lives' experiences highlights some of these beliefs.
most people are a lot open minded when there high it gives them the ability to come down and see things a different aspects of situation
It depends how you define open minded. He was pretty open minded sending his rivals to the paredon to face the rifle squad. He was open minded to have no free press. He was very open minded about power.
Polish people usually are friendly, kind, family-oriented, hard-working, intelligent, proud of their heritage, religious, practical, open-minded.
We generally think of closed-minded as the opposite (the antonym) for open-minded.
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If the world had no open-minded people, we would most likely still be cavemen with less advanced tools, or if your looking at it from the biblical perspective, as human life starting at the garden of eden, then we would most likely be ruled under a king, and restrict contact with other nations. Any nations we would come across, we would either try to enslave, or keep away from. If the world had no Open-minded people, we most likely would not advance technologically or socially.
Most British people are open-minded toward people from other countries. Unfortunately, a few people in Britain still believe in negative stereotypes.
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Benjamin Franklin was VERY open-minded. I mean, if he wasn't very open-minded, how do you think he came up with a firehouse, a library, and other awesome inventions. Seriously, he was TOTALLY open-minded.
There are two sides to every story
Close-minded.