| Prejudices. We all love them, do we? Truth be told, people are often being judged as 'don't have that much prejudices about people!' This shows that most people see prejudices as a bad thing, because they are being associated with discrimination. If you think Chinese guys are annoying, you'll probably never like one and maybe you can start descriminating them. I personally know a lot of people stuffed full with old, dull prejudices that now do not make this much sense anymore. They have had their best time, but those ideas are still in the minds of who we deal with every day. But why do we have prejudices, anyway? Well, let me explain that. Prejudices are a very important part of how our brain works. You can call in 'generalisation' too. Imagine yourself, noticing every one thing that happens. That would be an annoying life. What would tests be hard! You would get all nervous and wouldn't be able to concentrate on what you need to do or that horribly tough question. Our brain needs to generalize. We need to be able to focus on what's really important in our lives. We don't only to that when seeing, but also hearing, feeling.. You don't hear everything. You don't feel you're wearing clothes after a while. But we also do this when expressing opinions. If we would look at every single person on our globe, we would go berserk. It's too much information to hold. So, people generalize. They need to add structures to a big heap of information. But often this 'generalization' becomes negative. We develop opinions about certain races, places, hair colours, anything you can recognize an individual with. Sometimes this turns into discrimination, but more often these are prejudices. Prejudices developed by your own brain. Another cause can be society. It may seem all of us shove causes off to... |
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