02-15-2015, 02:08 PM
I think prejudice in this are is due to:
1. Lack of opportunity. In China, for example, how many white people live there? As an Asian there, how much opportunity is there to meet and get to know and fall in love with a Caucasion person? Even considering the Internet, where you can meet people online, you still have missed getting to really know others in person outside of your culture in certain parts of the world.
2. A lack of lateral thinking. We are trained from birth to think inside the box. The box is whatever society in general maintains at any given time.
3. Herd mentality. Plenum, it could be that you were merely resisting the herd, and rising above it by seeking outside of it. Animals instinctively maintain herd integrity because it is safer. Humans in general have, through the centuries, responded to this mandate and still do. Unfortunately, because humans have more developed brains and "free will," and are capable of endless cruelty, we have judgments and prejudices still when others don't conform to ignorant societal pressures.
1. Lack of opportunity. In China, for example, how many white people live there? As an Asian there, how much opportunity is there to meet and get to know and fall in love with a Caucasion person? Even considering the Internet, where you can meet people online, you still have missed getting to really know others in person outside of your culture in certain parts of the world.
2. A lack of lateral thinking. We are trained from birth to think inside the box. The box is whatever society in general maintains at any given time.
3. Herd mentality. Plenum, it could be that you were merely resisting the herd, and rising above it by seeking outside of it. Animals instinctively maintain herd integrity because it is safer. Humans in general have, through the centuries, responded to this mandate and still do. Unfortunately, because humans have more developed brains and "free will," and are capable of endless cruelty, we have judgments and prejudices still when others don't conform to ignorant societal pressures.