Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
— William Hazlitt
REFLECTION
— William Hazlitt
REFLECTION
A prejudice is what fills the space where knowledge should be. Where you have no actual experience of a group of people, the mind does not leave the slot empty; it borrows a ready-made picture from whatever was lying around, and that picture then feels like something you worked out yourself. This is why prejudice is strongest at a distance and weakens on contact.
Pick a group you have opinions about and few actual dealings with. Go and find the direct experience: read what they write about themselves, or better, spend real time with one of them. Let the specific person disturb the general picture.
Which group do you judge without knowing any of them?
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