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I don't know about everyone, but I believe that most people have prejudices based off of stereotypes, beliefs they were raised on, and personal experience. I totally have prejudices for blondes, high school freshmen, and children under the age of nine. I will admit that my prejudices have been proven incorrect, but they seem to hold true most of the time.
What do you guys think?
I think we all do, because you can be prejudiced against any group.
I am against stupid, arrogant and lazy people...
there are always going to be people who other people don't like for one reason or another. and I think I'm better than the above groups I sighted, whitch basically makes me prejudiced.
That doesn't make you prejudiced, but it does make you arrogant. so you don't like that componeent of yourself either.
Ever heard the saying:
I see something in that person that I don't like about me.?
You just gave the perfect example.
Here's the difference between being prejudiced and being arrogant:
Prejudiced means forming a preconceived opinion or judgment without knowledge or examination of the facts; arrogant is feeling superiority toward others. That's quite a difference there, to say the least..
Yup, we all have prejudices. And now I'm gonna stick my neck out ... but prejudice, by itself, may not be wrong. It's all in what you do with it.
Stereotypes are typically an overinflation of facts that can be proven in some cases. The trick is knowing when it's your prejudice, and dealing with it on those terms. I try and bear that in mind when dealing with some of my more rural / zealous family members ... perhaps it would be easy to just write them off as a bunch of presumptuous little primitives ... but I've seen them for real write things on Facebook that have even moved me, which takes effort.
I just try and bear in mind where my prejudice is, and try and tell the difference when it's my prejudice or something real.
For example I have a relative who recently got nailed for assault with a deadly weapon. Now he's an elbow-relation, but fits the bill for some of these areas I'm seriously prejudiced ... anti government, religious, conservative, all that. But I thought, well, he's a good guy it's just my own stuff ... so, does this latest thing really give me just cause in writing the guy off? Well, I don't have the full scoop on what took place for one thing, I wasn't there. But yeah, I'm seriously challenged. Now when I was younger my response might well have been different. But the whole picture is, he's got a wife and a pair of babies that are no doubt gonna need some extra help for awhile. That and apparently there's stability issues the psychology people on here may understand far better than I.
I've just learned in the past dozen or so years that this whole prejudice issue can get seriously complicated, especially you start running into family groups you may not have seen in twenty or so years ... I don't think it's so black and white anymore. Frankly I have more questions than answers these days on the issue.
if that's the case, then there's more arrogance in the world than prejudice.
I disagree. you can certainly say you dislike things about people, but saying you're better than certain groups is, as Raven said, proving your arrogance. I'm just me; I'm no better or worse than anyone else. simple as that.
yeah, but if you think about it, a lot of discrimination in the world is caused by people thinking they are better than other people. certainly a lot of the discrimination against black people was more to do with arrogance than prejudice...
Wrong! Most discrimination is due to prejudice, not arrogance. Yes, much of the discrimaination faced by blacks is and was due to arrogance, but that's not most discrimination now, is it?
Think about discrimination against blinds, people in wheel chairs, Arabs, people with numerous tattoos, and short people. Do you honestly think that discrimination against these people is due to arrogance and not prejudice?
I definitely think everyone has their prejudices. I just think some people try harder than others to not have so many, or at least to not be so vocal about them. For me, prejudices usually stem from personal experience, but I try not to hate anyone. As for this whole argument about arrogance, I think arrogant people are just more likely to show their prejudices because they're used to getting their own way, bullying others, and just generally thinking they're right. So the arrogant ones are the people you hear make prejudiced statements and perpetuating stereotypes. Just my thoughts.
we're quibbling over minutiae here. arrogance and prejudice often go hand in hand. In order to truly a prejudice has to have that element of superiority in it.
I'm sure I have prejudices, but I don't think about them until they come up, and I try to look passed them when they do.
Prejudice can cause arrogance, but I don't think it can work the other way around. Just my thoughts.
I totally agree with Ocean Dream. Prejudice can lead to arrogance, but not vice versa. If someone finds a quality they don't like about someone and feel they are superior to that person if they themselves do not possess that quality, that can not lead them to develop a prejudice which in my opinion has more reasoning than arrogance. And just for the record, I'm not condoneing prejudices. But avoiding a certain type of people because you've been hurt by them or saw someone wronged by them sounds more legit than feeling superior to that person just because they belong to a certain group.
I, for one, know that I'm very prejudice. I don't like most Turks because they continuously cause us problems by flying into our air zones and they invaded, and still remain in, Kypros, with the full support of America, which is another group that I don't like, due to their superiority complex, their desire to force themselves onto other nations etc. Yet I've met a few very nice Turks in my life and actually have an acquaintance who's one. Even General Makriyannis, an incredible heroe in the War of Independence, met an extremely kind one and wrote about him. As for Americans, while I don't like them politically,, of course I know many good ones, including my own family. (Note that I do not consider myself one, despite my citizenship by birth.) I also don't like people from FYROM, because they're trying to use the name Macedonia, which belongs to us and are trying to claim Alexander the Great, people, barring the elderly and the mentally ill/retarded, who live in a given country and who refuse to learn that country's language (way too many of those around here), and anyone, whether a group or an individual, who is against Greece. The latter case could very well prevoke violence from me if the group/individual actually has the power to harm the country I love. as a sidenote, I've completely cut ties with my extended family and only consider my immediate family (my parents and Grandma) plus my twin, his wife and their son and dog, to be part of my blood line. the others have disgraced the name and have hurt us personally and are definitely not worth my time and effort.