Is prejudice a learned process?
Prejudice is both learned and natural. It is learned in that people pass their prejudices down the generations. The following is how it is natural: Think about the word “prejudice.” It is “pre” and “judge.” Pre judging is natural for humans and, when not applied in a negative context towards humans, perfectly neutral. I pre judge that sticking my hand in a fire, for instance, is going to harm me so I do not do that. I do not need to stick my hand in the fire to know that it is going to harm me. In fact, I then use my ability to discriminate to choose to not stick my hand in that fire. As far as prejudice in negative context towards humans, it is also natural. Babies discriminate based on skin color: http://www.newsweek.com/id/214989/page/1 I believe that it us up to us as individuals to check ourselves to make certain that we are not acting in a prejudicial manner towards people based on externals, which would include ethnicity in my opinion. I believe that, as parents, we should teach
