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You depict that phenomenon as not solely one of officers coming into the department as bigots, but also as a process in which the cops are learning prejudice and discrimination on the job.
For example, psychological studies have repeatedly demonstrated that people begin learning prejudice at a very early age.
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Sadly, even in open, developed nations like our own, where we have supposedly progressed beyond tribalism, individuals learn prejudice from our upbringing and surroundings.
How children learn prejudice and discrimination Children's opinions are influenced by what the people around them think, do and say.
I'm only concerned with the issue of intellectual honesty here, not political parties, ideologies, or learned prejudices.
As facilitator I distinguished between racism, systematic discrimination and oppression based on real or imagined inherent group differences, and biases, learned prejudices that all people have that may or may not affect attitudes and behavior towards others.
That means learning to see prejudice and speaking up against it.
Young visitors learn about prejudice by studying the life story of James McCune Smith, the first African-American to earn a medical degree.
Especially affecting is the episode where the kids learn about prejudice, fortitude and self-respect by reading The Diary of Anne Frank, and then raise the money to bring to their school the elderly Miep Gies, the Austrian-born Dutchwoman who sheltered the Frank family.
It was surprising to learn the prejudice which exists between Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews.
It was living in Africa working on genocide trials for the UN where I learned how prejudice turns to atrocity.
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