Why we hate what's different

Why we hate what’s different

This passage was about understanding the reason why and how people learn to be prejudice, which is better than focusing the victims or rather the after effects of prejudice. This study helps us to understand where we learn to be prejudice; mostly we learn to judge others by holding them to the same standards as our own. Some of these are blacks are lazy, Hispanics or Mexicans are gardeners, these prejudices only get worse as time goes on that is because people never got the opportunity to leave their own culture to learn anything about a new culture, their minds are closed to learning new cultures and beliefs therefore they deal with it with anger and disgust from anyone that is different from themselves. There are those who actually would step away from their own comfort zones and explore other cultures, because of their curiosities they become more open minded and learn that we are not so different at all, and bonds and friendships are established. Homophobia is a big problem now days, before homosexuals were the type of people that were thought of as perverts and people would not let their kids be around them, there are some countries especially countries in the Caribbean that would kill a homosexual if they were discovered, therefore to avoid death they kept to themselves and pretend to be heterosexual, some of them would even get married and have children, lead normal lives these men also lead a double life as gay men. Homosexuality was blamed for the occurrence of the a.i.d.s epidemic around the world, because it was a lifestyle that was not accepted in society everyone seems to agree. I don’t agree with the homosexual lifestyle, I don’t feel comfortable with homosexuals in my presence as sad as it may seem I grew up in a world where men were men and only lay with women.