My daughter who is 13 is required to write a paper on prejudice for her class. So when I tried to talk about my experience growing up in the 1950s onward through the 1960s, 1970s and on up to the present she didn't want to hear it.
I was saying that everyone is prejudiced in some way. For example, if you prefer your family to all others then you are prejudiced against other families. It is a part of being decisive and decision making and a part of all decisions. Decisions are the basis of discrimination. And if you don't want to be prejudicial in one way or another you would have to stop making all decisions which would interfere in your ongoing survival.
However, if you are trying to eliminate being racially or religiously prejudicial then I think that is a very good goal. I don't really think anyone of any race ever completely gets there but to be working toward that is a very admirable goal as the most suffering on earth seems to have been always caused by racial and religious discrimination. More people have suffered and died over the last 10,000 years for these reasons than for any other. Because of this all our efforts to end religious and racial prejudice should be welcomed by all mankind.
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