Is Bigotry Taught?

[Azisien]

Originally Posted by Seil

I guess this goes hand in hand with the debate as to whether or not people are born evil, or are made evil through situations and experiences in their life - and in that I'm still of the belief that ignorance and hatred is something you learn. Thinking of the amount of discrimination present in society fifty years ago to the discrimination now, I genuinely believe that to be because it wasn't because people we born to hate, it's that we were taught to by people who already weren't very nice folks.

So there's one side of an argument - anyone of a different opinion?[/color]

"Evil" being a questionable term in its own right, for the sake of this discussion, I would say the follows:

-A very, very small minority of people are born "evil."
-The rest of the "evil" people or perhaps more correctly, "evil" behaviours, are taught. Directly, or indirectly.