Can any of us truly state that we are without prejudice in our day to day lives...?
The car driving behind you.... several young lads in it.... music blarring..... does this make them louts???
The young girl walking down the street.... wearing clothes that barely cover her body.... does that make her of easy virtue?
The lad wearing a hoodie or baseball cap.... does this automatically mean he will be committing a crime later on that day?
The young person's view on the older generation....'what do they know about life'? does that make them inconsiderate or just teenagers thinking they invented everything....
We all prejudge people on a daily basis.... probably without even realising it....
We have to learn to recognise non-impartiality and prejudice and set them aside.. so that we can deal fairly with all......
What are your prejudices? What is your first thought when seeing someone/something that you dont particularly like???????
equi-princess xxx
Bit deep for this time of the morning..... blame the fact that i have a cold....!!!!
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Prejudice............
Most of my prejudices are just down to getting older and more senile....Its amazing how annoyed I get:
by boy racers conveniently forgettng that I was one 15yrs ago.
By loud music even if the only reason is that I have to turn up my own loud music to drown it out.
By dark-skinned people because I am jealous of their beautiful colouring compared to my sickly-off-white skin.
By young people cos they are smart alec know-it-alls
By old people cos they are smart alec done-it-alls
By people my own age because we know nothing, do nothing and spend all our time moaning about everyone else!!
....but apart from that I'm VERY open minded !!
by boy racers conveniently forgettng that I was one 15yrs ago.
By loud music even if the only reason is that I have to turn up my own loud music to drown it out.
By dark-skinned people because I am jealous of their beautiful colouring compared to my sickly-off-white skin.
By young people cos they are smart alec know-it-alls
By old people cos they are smart alec done-it-alls
By people my own age because we know nothing, do nothing and spend all our time moaning about everyone else!!
....but apart from that I'm VERY open minded !!
Quote by hertsguy30s
Most of my prejudices are just down to getting older and more senile....Its amazing how annoyed I get:
by boy racers conveniently forgettng that I was one 15yrs ago.
By loud music even if the only reason is that I have to turn up my own loud music to drown it out.
By dark-skinned people because I am jealous of their beautiful colouring compared to my sickly-off-white skin.
By young people cos they are smart alec know-it-alls
By old people cos they are smart alec done-it-alls
By people my own age because we know nothing, do nothing and spend all our time moaning about everyone else!!
....but apart from that I'm VERY open minded !!
Wow.... that was honest !!!!!!!
equi-princess xxx
Sexpert
I think at some point in the past and the origins of predjudice are self-presevation based.
A gazelle sees a lion. "Those lions, they will kill you and eat you as soon as look at you!"
The way the brain works makes us all predjudiced to a point, you have to play the averages.
If you are spoon fed information by the media constantly about a "certain type" it eventually sticks with a lot of people, because most people are very open to suggestion - letting someone else think for you is much less work than actually making a decision yourself.
A good example is the emergence of "chavs" is everyone in burberry who has a mobile phone a chav, and are they all scum as we are lead to believe, or did I miss something? lol
A gazelle sees a lion. "Those lions, they will kill you and eat you as soon as look at you!"
The way the brain works makes us all predjudiced to a point, you have to play the averages.
If you are spoon fed information by the media constantly about a "certain type" it eventually sticks with a lot of people, because most people are very open to suggestion - letting someone else think for you is much less work than actually making a decision yourself.
A good example is the emergence of "chavs" is everyone in burberry who has a mobile phone a chav, and are they all scum as we are lead to believe, or did I miss something? lol
Andy -
Spot on.. it all starts at local level:
As a child all we know is our family. People outside our family are strange and their habits are alien. We go to nursery and our social group grows and we accept the rules of that group but the group is still boundaried. We go to school and exactly the same occurs - the beach boys toon "Be true to your school" springs to mind. As our horizons broaden the walls don't break down they just get pushed back. If you grow up in an entirely white environment and don't encounter a black person until 20yrs old it is natural to find them unusual (and vice versa of course) and it is the natural instinct to be suspicious and cautious around anything unfamiliar.
This is also generational of course. Every generation thinks the young are terrible monsters despite the fact that in the:
20s we had dancehalls, street gangs and toffs taking drugs
30s we had street gangs and riots and toffs taking slightly cheaper drugs
40s we didn;t actually need much crime because the world leaders decided to eliminate half the world's youth (maybe the leaders were on drugs?)
50s we had teddy boys (on drugs if they could afford them)
60s we had hippies (taking baking powder cos couldn;t afford drugs) and mods n rockers
70s we had punks (prefered the natual high of body mutilation and hair dye to drugs)
80s we had rap (not saying any rappers actually took drugs but..) and house music ("E")
90s we had grunge, junkies and trainspotting
Naughties - well probably too early to tell yet...
Suffice to say all the above is junk. Each social group (geographic/age or whatever) will identify itself with all sorts of paraphenalia such as music or dress or drugs or political outlook but it all boils down to just helping indiviuals feel like they belong to some social group.
Easy peasy!
LATE EDIT: I know this all seems like i'm preaching but it is something which really annoys me - prejudice is natural and I recognise that it does serve a purpose but it frustrates me that we all waste so much energy getting angry at people who are fundamentally the same as us for doing the things that we also do. In my village we have a real problem with nuisance youths - no the problem is not the youths who are generally doing nothing more than standing around talking or playing. It is the older folk who feel intimidated - it is the older folk we need to help to engage more with the kids and to overcome their fears. These are generally good kids and being made to feel isolated and sidelined from village life will only fuel any angst.
Spot on.. it all starts at local level:
As a child all we know is our family. People outside our family are strange and their habits are alien. We go to nursery and our social group grows and we accept the rules of that group but the group is still boundaried. We go to school and exactly the same occurs - the beach boys toon "Be true to your school" springs to mind. As our horizons broaden the walls don't break down they just get pushed back. If you grow up in an entirely white environment and don't encounter a black person until 20yrs old it is natural to find them unusual (and vice versa of course) and it is the natural instinct to be suspicious and cautious around anything unfamiliar.
This is also generational of course. Every generation thinks the young are terrible monsters despite the fact that in the:
20s we had dancehalls, street gangs and toffs taking drugs
30s we had street gangs and riots and toffs taking slightly cheaper drugs
40s we didn;t actually need much crime because the world leaders decided to eliminate half the world's youth (maybe the leaders were on drugs?)
50s we had teddy boys (on drugs if they could afford them)
60s we had hippies (taking baking powder cos couldn;t afford drugs) and mods n rockers
70s we had punks (prefered the natual high of body mutilation and hair dye to drugs)
80s we had rap (not saying any rappers actually took drugs but..) and house music ("E")
90s we had grunge, junkies and trainspotting
Naughties - well probably too early to tell yet...
Suffice to say all the above is junk. Each social group (geographic/age or whatever) will identify itself with all sorts of paraphenalia such as music or dress or drugs or political outlook but it all boils down to just helping indiviuals feel like they belong to some social group.
Easy peasy!
LATE EDIT: I know this all seems like i'm preaching but it is something which really annoys me - prejudice is natural and I recognise that it does serve a purpose but it frustrates me that we all waste so much energy getting angry at people who are fundamentally the same as us for doing the things that we also do. In my village we have a real problem with nuisance youths - no the problem is not the youths who are generally doing nothing more than standing around talking or playing. It is the older folk who feel intimidated - it is the older folk we need to help to engage more with the kids and to overcome their fears. These are generally good kids and being made to feel isolated and sidelined from village life will only fuel any angst.
