Do you believe that in every generation there is always a group in which we discriminate against?

Question

for example, the jews, blacks...and other groups..now it is the homosexuals...what is society perpetuating like this? isn't it the time we realize, yes we all different, but we can still work together?

ANOTHER QUESTION. it says we're all the same, that is doublethink since we're actually not.

so why don't we all think of jews as a different like specie, blacks as a different specie, gays as a different specie..would that solve anything? JUST A thought. people keep thinking we're all the same...so we must act the same, thats where they are wrong

Answer 1

Discrimination and bigotry are well rooted in the Christian paradigm. Christianity is built upon an us versus them mentality. Without an adversary, preachers would have to motivate their flocks under a guise of understanding, which is FAR more complex to teach to the ignorant than hate.

Answer 2

I answered a question similar to this a while ago. It was quite lengthy. I'll shorten it here.

Yes, someone will always be discriminated against. The concept of "true equality" cannot be achieved in society. There is no species on the planet that treats all of its members the same. In order to be treated all exactly the same, we must all BE exactly the same.

And that, my friend, can never happen. So many people seem to think that the solution to discrimination is to ignore the differences between us and gloss over them like they aren't there and don't matter. What this usually turns into are a bunch of white people trying to make blacks be more white.

But we ARE different, just like men and women ARE different. The key to eliminating descrimination isn't to make everyone alike, its to accept our differences and not look down on them.

Answer 3

It's in our behavioral repetoire to seek out differences. Having delcarative knowledge is having the ability to discriminate (as in saying this is different from this). For example, you know that Christmas is on Dec.25, and not Nov. 25.

When we see someone who is black, we will say "Oh he is black" and then we think of the things we have been taught by our environment.

If the things learned by our environment via rule, our behavior is rule-governed. For example, your mom told you that you shouldn't play with a black person because he'll eventually rob you. You might think okay I do not want to be robbed, I worked hard for my chores money. So you avoid being robbed by not hanging out with a black person. You followed your mom's rule. Your behavior is rule-governed.

If you decided to not listen to your mom's advice, and you do get robbed. Your behavior is contingency-shaped because you came in contact with the consequence. You now learned that a black person will rob you. You might over-generalize and say it's every black person. So now you have this negative view about black ppl.

If you decided to not listen to your mom's advice. You have a black friend and that black friend you never robbed you. Your mom's advice would be considered as a lie, because it was not consistence with your experience.

You could also think your mom's a lie because you have a feeling that she is saying it for some reinforcing value. A lie will decrease your behavior, you will less likely follow the rule.

Depending on the experieces (rule-governed, contingency shaped, or a lie), you will act accordingly to your experience. The discriminative stimulus (a black person) will set the occassion for behavior depending on your history of reinforcement.

It's our environment that affects how we behavior. We are not borned with this hatred behavior. When we are reinforced we will continue to behave that way. For example, if you avoid black people and never got robbed, that is reinforcing so you will continue to avoid black people. It doesn't even have to be blacks, whites, jews, homosexuals.
It can be anything! For example, we discriminate of what to wear! We knowing that wearing this outfit will get this type of attention. If that attention is reinforcing you will wear it. If it's negative attention you will not wear it, you will avoid that outfit (a punishment=decreases future behavior).

Our behavior is stimulus controlled - our behavior changes depending on the context. The context is the discriminative stimulus. We discriminate because of our history of reinforcement.

Answer 4

Oh hell yeah,
because in each generation, another group has discrimination abolished twards their spacific group. So the the next generation finds something else.

I actually had a guy turn me down because he said gorls with blue eyes are unfaithfull, what a crock of sh*t

Answer 5

If we were all the same color, culture, religion, whatever...by human nature we would find someway to group and stereotype people as lesser than we. I can only hazzard a guess as to why. We base our own importance on being better than someone else. And by the way...its wrong.