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I'm just gonna tackle this part because you've uttered it twice now; I don't believe this statement holds true at all. Although our collected education has grown by leaps and bounds, so, too, has our own ignorance and disregard to obtaining the true sources of information we come across. Too often do some take what they hear or see in passing to be true, and if they see a practice replayed enough times, they eventually classify it to be absolute, and are beyond shocked if it diverts from what they previously knew. I certainly don't think anyone wants to be labeled a "racist", but if their approach on typifying a single group of people is to recall what he/she has come to know from popular media, even though it is a false generalization, that position is still a prejudice, whether one has certain knowledge or not.

This is where sterotypes, both negative and positive, fuel bigoted thoughts and creates dogmatic and oblivious beliefs in the minds of those that subscribe to such assumptions. In the scope of designing a more comfortable living through technology, it also has breed dilatory inaction on trying to advance ourselves through what is readily available to us. It leads to: "Why research a seemingly acceptable answer more thoroughly when google and MSNBC doesn't have to? I rely on others to nurture my discussions and views on the world, don't you?"

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In addition as it is tangential at best: I wanted to chip in my voice in saying that I love deGrasse Tyson as well; he has such a knack in speaking and ability to relate far-flung contentions about space time and physics to the layman, it is beyond the bounds of unreal excellence.

I especially love that I can now see him near-weekly, as he now host's PBS's supremely-intriguing and entertaining science drama of NOVA.

NOVA | PBS Video

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