We are all prejudiced in some ways...one of the reasons is, we dehumanize fellow human beings into categories...Asians/Africans, artists/engineers, christians/muslims, smart/stupid...
The way we look at 'them' (people we don't really know), is just like formulas we learnt in junior high physics, with lots of simplifying assumptions....
It's a sad thing, but it's not too hard to find someone who's never talked to a Muslim in her/his life to declare "they are all terrorists".
...When we moved on to high school, to college, to graduate school...when we dived deeper into the world of Physics...our teachers gradually took out those assumptions and we got closer to reality...
In getting to know fellow human beings (both those around us & those we've never met)...have we ever got the chance to dive deeper into their world...? Who's responsible to help us take out those simplifying assumptions?
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