When looking at prejudice, we have to ask ourselves "why is this here?" In reality, prejudice only exists due to our own ignorance. Many times when we look at ourselves, we characterize our attributes to help distinguish between one another. Be it hair color, eye color, skin color, or height, we notice these subtle differences. After noticing these differences, people tend to generalize about each other with the same hair color, or eye color. Sometimes they begin to hate one another based on nothing but how they look, whether right or wrong it often happens.
What's most detrimental about these generalization would be most people develop an irrational fear or hatred towards someone. Frequently people will notice a persons skin color, and absolutely refuse to talk to them. How can this advance us as people? Throughout America's history we have been trying to amend our wrongs and to bring all people of all races together. All has prejudice accomplished is to reinstate those irrational fears and hatred.
Unless we move past these simplistic opinions, then we will never be able to successfully move towards a united, entirely integrated society. Prejudice and descrimination act as walls to stop what we have tried so hard to succeed.
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That was a really good blog. I can tell you put a lot of thought into it because, every sentence is made up of extremely good word choices. I agree, often times people are too caught up in the appearance of others and not who they really are.
ReplyDeleteYou have a very strong vocabulary. I also think that prejudice is about our own igorance and there own ideas because everyone has a different opinion. Good job kyle
ReplyDeleteYou might like the following column written by a university student studying in another country:
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Overall, a strong blog! Focused and demonstrative of your beliefs. I can see Kyle shining through this one.
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Your link doesn't work. Look up the definition of "reinstate" and "succeed" b/c you don't use them appropriately.