None of these countries have subsequently become prejudice-free utopias.
However, I know a good proportion of that was people who were saying: 'Usually I would be putting up with this, I would kind of shake it off.'" Lowles told the MPs that his group's research showed that the referendum debate did not appear to prompt people to become prejudiced if they had not been before, but did seemingly influence those already holding such views.
Those who are skilled in the use of NVC may become prejudiced against those who are not and prefer to converse only among themselves.
"[C]hildren become prejudiced adults by either adopting the attitudes of their parents and/or peer group or because they were raised in an environment that allowed for hatred to develop.
The next day, Peter decides to re-convert the family to Catholicism and becomes prejudiced against Lois' heritage, becoming anti-Semitic.
Should the lawyer dissemble about the client's unquestioned guilt lest the public -- maybe even the jury about to be empanelled -- becomes prejudiced from the outset ("Even his own lawyer thinks he's guilty")?
One, from the University of California, Los Angeles, generally found reduced prejudice among students with different-race roommates -- but those who roomed with Asian-Americans, the group that scored the highest on measures of prejudice, became more prejudiced.
Through these various sleights of hand, the "deep-dyed American prejudice against nepotism" becomes a prejudice against family itself.
Mill tells us specifically that if we ban speech the silenced opinion may be true, or contain a portion of the truth, and that unchallenged opinions become mere prejudices and dead dogmas that are inherited rather than adopted.
Psychologists Geoffrey Cohen and David Sherman recently summarized several studies showing that people become less prejudiced toward others and more willing to listen to them after first affirming their positive qualities.
It is a narrative method calculated to let us hear how a point of view becomes a prejudice.
