"It's true...about kids gaining prejudices at a young age, without really understanding what it's all about...that's what I often say about racial issues and other prejudices being 'in-bred'...there's many, I'll bet, who are engaged in conflicts around the world due to in-bred prejudices, or pre-conceived notions about a person or persons. The only way to ever change things in this world and the only ever hope of peace is to try to promote tolerance from the start (i.e. when very young). This also involves co-operation from the parents, though, so is no easy task. However sometimes opinions can be changed...just takes a lot of work, effort and a lot of introspection (something that not all folks are comfortable with)..."
Monday, May 25, 2009
A Solution for Communalism
With respect to the last paragraph of the previous post, a friend, who is a school-teacher from Scotland, wrote:
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Hmm. True. My parents may have been responsible for some.
Deep | Homepage | 05.27.09 – 4:31 pm | #
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Very true. Parents, through words and gestures make it ingrained in the children’s minds.
Manpreet | Homepage | 05.29.09 – 2:45 am | #
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I am a bit realistic/pessimistic in this. We are going to go no where as long as organized religion exists. I am not against the concept of god, however organized religion will continue to be detrimental to any effort to eliminate communalism. even coming from a liberal family as i am, i still remember my parents saying, “u can marry anyone, from caste, any social class but stick to our religion”… even though my parents dont have any prejudice against other religion there seems to be some intangible un-comfort zone when it comes to religion… so…
Agnostic dude… | 05.30.09 – 9:55 pm | #
hi
m agrry
rabail | Homepage | 07.30.09 – 8:29 am | #
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cooooool na
rabail | Homepage | 07.30.09 – 8:35 am | #
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