Prejudice
Posted By: nana on 2007-11-08
In Reply to: I think the man is prejudiced regardless of another time and place. - I don't care if he was on the phone with his (s
We are all prejudiced against something. To deny that would be a lie. I speak what I want in my own home. If someone recorded it and maligned me with it I would seek advice from a lawyer and proceed against them. When in my home I do it my way, speak what I want, etc. When in the home of others or the workplace I conform to societal norms as best I can. When offended, I either remain silent or excuse myself nicely. When you were with those relatives were you in your house or theirs?
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I too am prejudice, but
my children are not. They are very accepting and liberal adn I admire them for that. I am working on it every day to try to be more accepting of differences, albeit color, religion, etc.
I have come to realize and understand that are bad seeds in every race, religion, etc.
I will never to totally free of prejudice, but I will be more open to differences and learn to keep my opinions to my self.
holloway and prejudice
Thank you for your insightful post. Gosh..will we ever get it right?? In my life time? I sure hope so..
there was no prejudice in OP post
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I have never heard anyone so outright admit to prejudice like that..sm
I used to live in Virginia. I am not prejudice, BUT what I experienced there taught me some differences. I noticed that quite a few black people DID have attitudes and were actually quite prejiduce themselves. I was very amazed at this. At one time, we had gone to a video store. All blacks running the store. Our family and another white family were there and they REFUSED to wait on this. Now, while I understand the issues of the PAST, I think it silly to blame THIS generation for what was done by ancestors in past generations. I ended up calling the district manager and the entire store was RESTAFFED from Manager DOWN. I also had a lot of black friends in Virginia. I think what it comes down to is no matter what race you are, you got some people who are ***holes and some not..black, white, asian, etc. You also have people who are prejiduce..blacks against whites, asians against black..it doesn't matter. Its very sad.
I went into this without prejudice, threw myelf actually, but it seems to get worse...
instead of better. I feel I got a pay cut with almost the same amount of work. Some jobs are great, then you get 3-4 that are heavy in editing and it ruins anything you got with a good 1 or 2.
Mensa AND common sense -- prejudice obviously ignorance
Oh bosh. I am a member of Mensa and a medical transcriptionist. I think it is VERY narrow minded of the whole bunch who criticize something they no NOTHING about. Mensa is simply an organization whose qualification is that you test in the top 2 percent on any of a couple of different IQ tests. High IQ and common sense are not mutually exclusive. I have two other comments: Intelligence is matriarchal (look it up) and if you would like the cheapest way of finding out your true IQ Mensa is generally the cheapest way to do it. It used to consist of 15 bucks and a Saturday morning at a university test -- but I'm sure there are more modern ways now. Contact American Mensa and find out. They are a very interesting bunch and have special interest groups which consist of just about any topic you can think of from alcoholics to chocoholics to irish dancing and beyond....
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