What is it that causes us to make judgments about people without knowing them? The weakness and insecurities in us feel the need to place judgments on others in order to divert people's attention from ourselves.
We assume because we lack intelligence. I am always humbled when my assumptions are proven wrong.
A small percentage of a certain group of people causes us to assume that everyone from that race, religion, creed, or color are the same. How silly and shallow of us to assume that all bald guys are scary, all military men are players, all cowboys are backward and uneducated, all lesbians are hostile, all artists are narcissistic...
Perhaps in making that list I have perjured myself by revealing the assumptions I have succumbed to.
Rather than assume the worst of someone, we ought to seek to find all the good in a person. What a tremendous difference this will have in all our interactions with others.
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