Hello everyone,
I believe it must not be surprising, for most to know that stereotypes and prejudices stems mostly out of hatred, based on ignorance and sometimes lack of knowledge/insight.
Stereotypes and prejudices are often caused by fear, fear of what is unknown, what is not familiar. People often hold on to perceptions, distorting, hampering, ignoring and misinterpreting facts that contradict their own perceptions.
One of the clear signs are often when we separates people in groups, like; “We vs Them”, “Us vs Them” - That is called to create gaps and distancing.
What happens then?
Consciously or unconsciously one has already taken a stand to judge already a ma.rginalized group of people, and stereotypes and prejudices are born.
We have seen devastating examples upon this through history and time, and in present time we still see the same kind of atrocities done out of stereotypes and prejudices.
Please share below your thoughts, opinions about the topic, how do you see the world and the people living in it.
Everyone is welcome to participate in the discussion. Please have in mind to keep a respectful and good tone.
Thank you.
Stereotypes:
A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.
Prejudices:
Preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.
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Yes, you are right, I do agree with what you expressed in your comment. I too believe if we teach our coming generations to be more considerate and understanding towards differences and what may not be familiar to us, we can come a long way.
Small teachings often makes the big differences. Also yes we have seen this through time and history and unfortunately somehow I do not believe in it is something that is going to change.
About your image as you posted, it somehow shows very accurately sometimes how our own insecurities live in good conditions, based on persuasions and assumptions.
Communication is a good thing.
Thank you very much for sharing your opinion. :)
I don’t know whether I understood your comment correctly, but I believe you are right, oftentimes we seek also those type of solutions upon problems as may be familiar to us, result is often that we end up doing exactly the same, as we probably didn’t wanted to.
It is sometimes difficult to break patterns. Thank you very much for sharing your opinion. :)
Yes, you got it right! People don't want to find better ways of solution of the issues, if there are ready-made simple but wrong solutions.
ny people are controlled and manipulated by this things . War have had started and , big massacres in the the name of them . People were thrown out of their homes and countries and even lost their loves ones because of prejudice and stereotypes judgments . These 2 things were the flame of a fire that is still burning even in a small corners of our house or school classes were our kids are supposed to learn . Sometimes we ignore such people unknowing that they should be crushed right from the beginning . In my culture these traits are devilish and they were the cause of Satan disobedience to Allah orders . He refused to bow to Adam cause he believed that he is more higher than that human . Than , after ward the dramatic evil and right struggle moved into the worldly dimension .