Prejudice: The Roots of Discrimination

[@dr.bangura4722]

Brilliant talk. Thank you. I contacted this channel due to our Psychology professor's recommendation to view this talk.

[@mr.mohagany8555]

Interesting stuff. Very important, too - it's crucial for people to have real scientific data about the implicit prejudices that are behind so much conflict. For example, would there be so much rush to war if we could see the other groups grief as being as real as our own? Noticed there's a lot of negative comments here. That's probably because people's prejudices are being challenged so they unconsciously strike back at the messenger rather than examine their beliefs.

[@amirabile6338]

Interesting speech and what a very restricted world humans have constructed for themselves to live in! Do we really have to have superior and inferior groups? Bad and good groups? Do we really need to use difference between us as a reason for hating each other? Or can we capitalize on the fact the we all are HUMANS?

[@Marriagecast]

Awesome! I love "the including of others in the self". Beauty!

[@francismausley7239]

"In the days of old an instinct for warfare was developed in the struggle with wild animals; this is no longer necessary; nay, rather, co-operation and mutual understanding are seen to produce the greatest welfare of mankind. Enmity is now the result of prejudice only." ~ Abdu'l-Baha, Baha'i Faith

[@diptiman1972]

The best way to overcome prejudice as per the prof - "inclusion of a person from the outgroup into your self". Wow!

[@dinette76]

Super interesting and helpful. Thanks for sharing!

[@marcsidhom538]

Great talk. Thank you !!!

[@samantha041508]

this is very interesting .. thanks you !!

[@JimBCameron]

I was immediately wondering if order & handed-ness amongst other things (gender, age, attractiveness etc) might skew results & if these were (could be) factored in to the experiment? I understand his idea's of bonding/banding towards the end, but I think that kinda thing's far subtler than the examples the speaker gives

[@MorpheusOne]

While I don't specifically disagree with any of the things that Dr. Stephen Wright says in this video, it was a little difficult to follow him due to the fact he just isn't the best speaker. And not merely bc he walks back & forth & puts his hand into his pocket oh so redundantly; specifically, he seems to rush through this lecture! Although, perhaps he is a great speaker; but, in this specific lecture, he just rushes to much. He seems to be under some sort of time constraints, perhaps due to how long the video, that we are seeing here, should be, to make it marketable to a wide enough audience. Which would, presumably, make the department that he works for, and/or the school, money! I wanted, and still want, a longer lecture. Ideally, from my point of view, it should be filled with dates, names, etc., facts about specific individuals in human history & how their prejudice determined what they believed about ppl and what they did about things, situations, the mere presence of those ppl, what problems those ppl had & what they did, & did not do, to help them, to make things worse, etc., including those ppl that they met for the first time...such as Christopher Columbus meeting the natives of "the New World" when he first landed in North America. Granted, even if this video was an hour or an hour and a half long, it still would not be long enough to cover such a topic at length, to do it justice. Which is why college can be such a wonderful thing. But, it would still be better than this specific lecture. I want more!

[@neliborba9030]

The worst prejudice out there is the "normality" of accepting abortion as a "right" and killing innocent unborn human beings in the womb, the next is the prejudice of child trafficking and child sexual abuse by selling them to the highest bidder using "pillows and cat carriers" as a smoke screen for such abhorrent practice. We all are humans and our first responsibility is for ourselves, every human has the capacity to live their lives without being bothered by others who think differently as long their thinking is not evil and harmful to others or to the balance of societies where freedom MEANS the safeguard the lives of the most vulnerable. Feelings and emotions any human can have which is normal and the way a person interprets other emotion is not necessarily prejudice. The problem is that people try to equalize everybody discarding the fact that ethnic groups have their own makeup when it comes to beliefs and culture. The Spanish woman example is wrong, there many people out there who would not do anything to help a person of European descent, personally I have know people who were discriminated by their own racial group when it comes to help others, it all comes from their intellectual makeup, morals and social background. Spreading the notion that all whites are racist is harming to humankind because they are not. It does not work exactly like you say.

[@teachm3539]

Michael J Fox?

[@thunderraydiamond7655]

this is proof east much better than the west okinawaaah

[@rohnamegatcher8685]

Sorry, but he talks fast and says many words, but really did not say much... just saying...