, religion, or sexual orientation,would the same injurious action still have taken place? In order to picture the virtual scenario,we would need to think critically and be able to delineate out hate, and to do that, we need tounderstand why people hate.No one is born to be prejudice. It is the society people grow up in that teaches them to bethat way. Even while watching a seemingly harmless cartoon, we are taught unconsciously todespise those who are different. The good guys are always a group of the same kind,physically appealing and very American while the bad guys are always bizarre and resemblepeople from a distant culture we dont recognize. From very young, we develop stereotypes;a direct effect from the workings of society. Popular generalizations such as Black peopleeating up social security money and Asians trying to buy America are passed around. Yet, inreality, statistics show that much more Whites are on social security than are blacks and onlythe Japanese Corporations are doing the purchasing, not Asians, particularly AsianAmericans who have nothing to do with them besides being Asian. Ironically, society tries toundo our prejudice through education when we enter school. But the prejudice is broughtback to us when we meet students who are prejudice, whether we become their friends ortheir victims of discrimination. Being prejudice upon teaches a person to be prejudice. How a person views something related to racism and hatred, directly reflects on how societyhas raised them. The American people do not see the bombing of Iraq and Yugoslavia as ahate crime, because we are told what we want to believe, that we are good and they are evil,and there would be no wrong in flexing our superior muscle. But to the Iraqis andYugoslavians, who lost thousands of lives, the United States is but a racist nation who kills"non-American" people like killing ants. For if the Iraqis and Yugoslavians were Americans,preferably white, would the U....
