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Lone_Star_Dem

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3. Discrimination has always been one social aspect I don't really understand.
Tue Jan 24, 2012, 03:26 PM
Jan 2012

I've read legions of books on the subject and they all appear to agree it has to do with the social expectations of the discriminator's peers. However, often times the same people who engage in discrimination against a group of people in public, will not engage in such behavior in private if they don't have peers who adhere to such discrimination to motivate their actions present.

It's not entirely unlike a bunch of HS kids picking on some kid who is not exactly like everyone else just because it's what all the other kids are doing. Then later being nice to the same kid when they know no one is going to see, and judge, their actions.

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