Bigots - from birth or by choice?

Question

Is Bigotry present from birth or do bigots choose this as a lifestyle? If so can they be cured of this wretched disease?

Answer 1

bigotry is a learned behavior. no one is born with predjudices. they are picked up from our environment. you would think people would be much more tolerant in this day and age.

Answer 2

both. all animals are leery of something different and humans share this. its a survival trait. bigotry is an extension of this. usually it is the result of upbringing but may also trace to experience. a person that has suffered at the hands of someone of a different race may choose to hate every member of that race. since bigotry is held to be an unthinking response the case could be made that bigotry that results from bad experiences is not really bigotry at all. like so much of life it defies simple answers but in short most bigots are raised and very few people just decide one day to become bigots.

Answer 3

No one is born with hate in their heart. It is usually because a person was raised in the same environment. It takes a lot to shed these things that have been bread into your personality from a small child. But, by keeping an open mind, one can learn what a terrible and limiting thing bigotry is and hopefully break that family trait.

Answer 4

It must be there from birth because why would you choose to be a bigot. Its so very unattractive. After all to be a bigot is an abomination. When ever I think about what bigots do I go EWWWWW!!!! Its just so disgusting and un-natural. (Just a little humor folks.)

Answer 5

bigotry is a learned behavior...passed on by other bigots who have been taught that anything that's different is to be feared/destroyed. people are bigots because they have closed minds and they are afraid of things they don't understand.
I truly believe that teaching your child to hate is akin to child abuse...because you are socially retarding your child. Ignorance breeds bigotry and hatred. and that's what leads to abuse, murder, war.... do we really need any more of that in this world?
It should be made illegal for people to be bigots....not for bigots to keep trying to legally discriminate against that which they don't understand.

Answer 6

my feeling that would haven't any information we are all born bisexual and we study or opt for to be immediately or gay with the society verify climate that is authorized or no longer maximum homosexuals and immediately in some unspecified time sooner or later in there stay ask them self what there real thoughts are inspect a number of the questions we get right here i imagine i'm gay yet i lie the girl or i imagine i'm in contact in a guy yet is that incorrect as i'm a guy too ? those questions are what maximum persons imagine as we in straight forward words comprehend it to be incorrect because this is what we are taught in the experience that they international did no longer have heritage would there also be a topic today? the in straight forward words reason homosexuality is taken into consideration as incorrect contained in the numerous flow is by using faith and what human beings have mind washed one yet another over the years. imagine about this it you went back in time and instructed a pope a king or the inhabitants that the colour eco-friendly shouldn't in any respect be worn because it the colour of the devil or it will make it not in any respect rain back or something like that could we now be combating for the right to placed on the colour eco-friendly. as many stuff / believes are previous over in time one era to the subsequent so i imagine we are all born bisexual and we opt for to be gay or immediately

Answer 7

Definitely by choice, though it would be pitiful to be that stupid. Of course, there are other factors, such as if the child's parents as f*cking stupid as the child.

They should have a big show on Martin Luther King, Jr's birthday to raise money - the Jerry Lewis Bigothon - if we raise enough, we can give them all the lobotomies they truly need.

Answer 8

That's right, turn the tables on them! No seriously, I think people are bigots because they are simply uneducated. Some bigots that I've met have master degrees, but they are still ignorant.

Answer 9

From Birth...

Answer 10

Bigitory is learned from parents, instilled in them when they were young! I don't think there is a "cure" but of course to say it is a disease would be wrong, because that would be doing exactly what they do to gay people by calling gayism a disease!

Answer 11

Hatred is taught, and sadly enough it's often taught at a very early age. Sometimes the issue is hardly addressed, and that's what makes it so widely uncontained. But bigots will always exist, sadly enough.