Prejudice

Prejudice exists in every culture and nation and community on the planet; it knows no boundaries.  Some individuals/groups hold other individuals/groups in disdain, for some, or many, reasons.

Those reasons include:

• Past wrongs unresolved or unforgiven.
• Feelings of superiority.
• Jealousy.
• Perceptions of inadequacy.
• Perceived lack of intelligence, import, status, social prowess in the other.
• Overt differences - in skin color, in gender, in language, in values, in education, in political views, in physical appearance,...

Seems to me that prejudice always springs from the self-centric viewpoint.  When it's all about me/I, then the only way to make me/I "feel" better is to take a lesser view of others.

We can do better, I think.  And we should, for the sake of our children.