the very root of the word indicates that prejudice - it is something that stands in front of common sense, that is, prevent him from moving forward.
If a man broke his arm, it usually refers to a doctor immediately.Friends and even unfamiliar people will sympathize with him, and perhaps even help to cope with things that require some skill both upper limbs.However, not all diseases cause so unequivocal sympathy.
In the Middle Ages, European countries have been covered by panic: the inhabitants from all sides surrounded by witches.To join them, it was enough to have red hair, and sometimes just to be a beautiful woman.Checked witch simple: bound and thrown into the nearest body of water.If the poor man floated, that "it was clear" that it is - a witch, and therefore to be burned alive ...
Why in some cases people avoid contact with those who are different from them in some kind of basis is enough to abstract?Especially if these personality traits are not related to possible upcoming joint business?It is obvious that there is a bias, that is prejudice.It is imposed on someone or voluntarily adopted an opinion on a specific portable personality.
There is such a thing as xenophobia, that is the rejection of all that is peculiar customs and manners, and sometimes the appearance of people in other countries and continents.However, many differences are fictitious, and with a light hand of some unkind or stupid person (perhaps a group of individuals) became public opinion.Stereotypes and prejudices against foreigners are taking place in almost every country, and attributed to owners of a different color of skin, or other form of face some pretty nasty character traits or inclination, for example, to the parasitic lifestyle.Thus, in the famous fairy tale by Eugene Schwartz archivist convinced that the Roma - terrible people.At the same time he any of them had seen.
numerous examples can be considered, and the campaign in some republics of the former Soviet Union during its collapse, when the natives took root in the consciousness of the idea of "insidious invaders", also drunk who's time to get out with a suitcase straight to the station.Also
racial or national, there are social prejudices.Mostly they occur in relation to those who are on the other levels of the social hierarchy.Most often more fortunate fellow citizens suffer contempt, and sometimes hatred, to the poor, or those whom they consider as such.However, sometimes vice versa, when any man had succeeded certainly find a scoundrel and a thief.Sometimes such sentiments fueled by politicians on the basis of some of their own interests.
Another kind of bias.Religious prejudices - this intolerance for people professing other faiths.Such differences often become the cause of wars, the collapse of the prosperous states and genocide.The basis for the promotion of hatred for centuries served as forming prejudices that someone should not have much difficulty to withdraw from the subconscious.
Of course, not every intolerance is a vice.There are customs and traditions that are contrary to the norms of civilized society (such as cannibalism).But for the most part prejudices - this is a very unfortunate event that interferes with the mutual enrichment of cultures and mutual understanding between such different and always beautiful in its own people.
