UrbanChic
06-21-2002, 02:56 PM
This thread, of course was inspired by another thread asking people to list their prejudices.
Ok, you have some prejudices. You make judgments based on what you see on the outside. You formulate an opinion about someone based on how they look, speak, dress, et cetera before you get to know him or her.
So just what are you doing about them? Do you recognize that you can change your prejudices? Do you educate yourself about, for example, obesity and its causes?
If you have kids, what are you doing to ensure you don't pass your prejudices to your children? Do you make snide comments about, for example, the overweight person walking down the street in front of or to your kids?
I'm genuinely curious. There was a poster in another thread who admitted he had prejudices but he accepted them. This struck me as so very, very odd. I've got a few I'm working through but I neither accept them nor learn to live with them. None of my prejudices involve hatred, but that still doesn't make them or me any better. I see myself as a work in progress and some of that work is learning not to hold preconceived assumptions based on, for example, someone's socioeconomic status.
Ok, you have some prejudices. You make judgments based on what you see on the outside. You formulate an opinion about someone based on how they look, speak, dress, et cetera before you get to know him or her.
So just what are you doing about them? Do you recognize that you can change your prejudices? Do you educate yourself about, for example, obesity and its causes?
If you have kids, what are you doing to ensure you don't pass your prejudices to your children? Do you make snide comments about, for example, the overweight person walking down the street in front of or to your kids?
I'm genuinely curious. There was a poster in another thread who admitted he had prejudices but he accepted them. This struck me as so very, very odd. I've got a few I'm working through but I neither accept them nor learn to live with them. None of my prejudices involve hatred, but that still doesn't make them or me any better. I see myself as a work in progress and some of that work is learning not to hold preconceived assumptions based on, for example, someone's socioeconomic status.