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Originally Posted by lotsofmagnets
this thread is starting to move away from prejudice and towards outright racism.
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What's the difference between racism and prejustice. Are they not equally the same issue/mind set?
I do think both are learned based upon experiences and upbringing. I wasn't prejustice against people of Islam until I worked with several (men) engineers who didn't want me to create graphics for them at Texas Instrument in
the 80s because I was a woman. Whoa! Even though I was one of the top 3illustrators in the Semiconductor support grapghics department at the time. They acted with gender bias and felt that this mattered to their project. They never gave me a chance - even though I was willing to do a great job for them (even though they were negative from the "get go") and I wasn't prejustice that they thought & spoke openly how we women were inferior to any man in my/our position. I felt a feeling of prejustice against me. Intersesting eye opener. But sadly, I became quite predjustice against men who were Islamic ever since. I didn't understand what their lack of totlerance was all about and it made me bitter & spread the "disease" of racism to me.