On 1/27/2011 10:59 AM, Mike Geary wrote:
We become prejudiced by being taught the prejudice and coming then to experience the other through the prejudice.
Thanks, Mike. You get the point. Just as slaver, to paraphrase Emerson, attaches his own iron collar when treating of a slave.
In addition, the various prejudices run both ways; outcast group views outcasting group with equally prejudiced eyes. The ghetto becomes a mysterious fortress locking out the mainstream.
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