Is Bigotry Taught?

[Tev]

Originally Posted by Invisible Queen

Searing insight edit: It occurred to me that as far as we know humans never marked their territory, in any way, until long after the words for "territory" was invented. Even now we have no clear definition of what it is. We have personal spaces that may be any size, neighborhoods that may or may not be marked by spray paint, internationally acknowledged national boundaries overlapping with cultural and economic ones. Maybe our entire history of oppressing minorities and condemning people who are different in any way is just misdirected frustration because we never learned to pee on trees.

This is actually the best part of this thread. In fact, I do believe I owe you some rep.

Anyway, I'm of the opinion that bigotry and racial prejudices are learned behaviors. Even the concept of people "born evil" is rather silly.