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Bear with me.
First, prejudice is not quite accurate. Awareness of difference is perhaps a bit more accurate if not a bit long.
You. The guy next to you. The girl next to him, and everyone else around you live and experience life the same way: through your own senses, Contained completely within your own body. While you can be influenced by outside forces, all of it is still filtered through you. So, even in a group of 100, or 1,000, or 100,000,000 you do not really have a group. What you have is 100, or 1,000, or 100,000,000 individual perspectives. You can only know the information your sense offer you. While it is possible to some degree to empathize with another, it is not possible at all to actually see the world through the eyes of another (metaphorically and literally speaking). As a result, your perspectives are skewed by your own experience and your analysis of the information gained by those experiences.
So, if you live where you were born, have never traveled beyond that place, and know nothing else, you can only analyze anything based on that information.
Short personal story that might help: When my oldest daughter was two years old, she went everywhere with me. She was a talker and a charmer. She talked to everyone, and constantly asked questions. At the time, I was laid off and collecting unemployment, so she went with me to the unemployment office and waited in line with me. Two hours. She was great, talked to everyone, asked them questions, introduced them to Dolby (her noise reduction bear). As the line snaked around, an African-American gentleman passed us. My daughter had never seen a black person, and she stared at him wide eyed, twisting backward in her stroller to watch him. As the line came around, and the man came next to us again, she reached out to tap me and asked, "Daddy, why is that man all covered with chocolate?" There must have been close to 200 people in the office, and every one of them heard her. Instant, total silence descended, and just as immediately half of them burst out in laughter. The man squatted down to talk to her and showed her by letting her pinch his arm that it was not chocolate but his real skin.
Was my two year old daughter, who had never seen anyone other than Caucasians prejudice? Nope, but she was aware of the difference, and based on what she knew tried to make sense of it.
Consider for a moment that the inaccurate asking of potentially loaded questions does more to spread discrimination than natural, innocent ignorance.
In short, humans do not tend to be guilty of prejudice.
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∙ 10y ago
Human beings tend to be guilty of prejudice due to a combination of social conditioning, stereotypes, fear of the unknown, and a desire for conformity. Prejudice can also stem from a lack of exposure to diversity, which can lead to ignorance and misunderstanding of other cultures or groups. Ultimately, addressing and overcoming prejudice requires awareness, education, and open-mindedness.
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