Discrimination in all of us

Yes. We ALL make assumptions and pre-judgements about many different things. It is a "survival mechanism" we all possess. It is not necessarily a BAD thing... only until the time when we assign a VALUE judgement to the distinctions. It's one thing to say that there are physical differences between the races; there is no value judgement in that. But when we say that one race is BETTER than another due to their physical differences, THEN it is NOT a good thing. But if I hear a loud "BANG" noise, I might first DUCK or be alerted or scared, because my survival instincts tell me that it might pose a threat. But if it's the 4th of July, and my neighbors are "celebrating," well... that "bang" has a whole different meaning.

I think you have discrimination mixed up with stereotypes and racism. Discrimination is an act that excludes a specific subject, race, species, object, or gender, for no good reason. Stereotypes are assumptions about a specific subject. For example, you can stereotype women as bad drivers, but that isn't discrimination. Read only if you need to waste time: I don't think I discriminate against anything, but I do stereotype a lot of stuff, and I experience racism every single day. I'm a white guy, as white as they come, and it seems like blacks (or browns as I like to call them) target whites to insult and gang up on. I'm a friendly soul, but almost every single 'black' person I ever met wanted to beat me up or begged me for money. I'm not racist, because I'm not assuming every black person is like that, however, I have some experience that statistically shows me otherwise. I try to stay around old people rather than anyone else, because they tend to be less violent.

as long as i know and depend on what i read, there is actually the differrence between men and women. in your example in here about driving, there are lots of articles said that women's driving and parking aren't good as men's driving and parking. its also happened with reading a map which shows that men is better in reading map than women. either we like or not there is kind difference between us and men and its not about discrimination matter cause its more from their natural basic skill since they divided into woman and man

I do agree with you in a general sense. Here in the Philippines, they always qualm about discriminated by other race, yet they don't realize they're also discriminating their own race. I love my country, and I am proud to be from the Philippines, but honestly, yes, at one point in time, we tend to discriminate other people, too -- maybe not verbally speaking, but just by thinking, sometimes it happens.

I agree because there is that tendency of competition in man which make some not up to his level fills among.

Of course we are--in different levels and different subjects. We are constantly emerging from our history. Look what Hollywood did to saturate the TV viewers with images they created. June Cleaver with her perfect hair and pearl necklace, old men vs. women bantering from old vaudeville and Hollywood, they continue today and given the audience and subject....everyone says....not me. We deny individually so as a whole we are guilty for letting it slide. The biggest blatant marketing discrimination is Native Americans. We can buy a Jeep Cherokee but not a Nissan Negro, Pontiac Jew or Chrystler Christian. We have sport teams like the Redskins which somes from the history of hunting Indians for their hides and the payment was by the skins of Indians. The mascot exists of a smiling toothy Indian but if it were a black face or mexican face the press and national groups would be all over the icon in a heartbeat. We are all guilty of tolerance.....that's when we agree. Sometimes we are guilty just by ignorance.....read your histories.....remember where you came from.

Yeah that is unfortunately very true, even in the family, some siblings are treated differently, in politics, jobs are dished according to part support and for the case of african countries, according to ethnicity, your are very right!

I totally agree that everyone to some extent is discriminatory towards people. I myself am discrimatory to people where I live that can't or won't speak english. I feel that if you are going to be in a country that the language is english then you need to speak the language, not expect everyone else to learn yours. I also don't like older drivers because in MY experience they are dangerous on the road. Not all of them are like that but some are. Just my 2 cents worth.