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Meaning we all have our prejudices and ignorant generalizations, the important thing is to be aware of them and admit they exist and are not positive traits, which takes much of the steam out of racism.
Such ventures into the often complex and extremely conflicted area of politics, war and current social prejudices are subsequently left alone by those the film ostensibly tries to draw in (those looking for intelligent, insightful political drama) and instead adopted and loved by people riveted by your average Michael Bay movie.
It deals with multiple prejudices about both the Dutch and Marrocan immigrants.
If you can get beyond these prejudices, then you can expect, at best, a mediocre movie.
It mainly raises questions about prejudices, not just about where people come from but simply about regarding others who are not like us.
Necessary policy reforms advocated by a ruling party are often held hostage to the prejudices of its allies.
This kind of enlightened stimulus runs into strong prejudices.
If we can teach children to recognize what they have in common with those from other cultures, we can also help them to resist the prejudices of those who seek to distort the truth and divide people.
Achieving these goals is bound to involve a greater regard for social equality, after a period in which the very rich have been able to protect a “Roaring Twenties” lifestyle through cleverly exploiting the “culture wars” – i.e., the populist prejudices of their much poorer fellow citizens.
Have Bannon, Flynn, and Trump simply updated old prejudices, and replaced one set of Semites with another?
But even if the underlying fears and prejudices about Muslim and Jewish conspiracies are similar, the consequences are likely to be quite different.
But if the mark of a rational person is a capacity to act on reasons transcending cost-benefit analysis, how can our rational duty be deduced impartially, free of the influence of personal interests or prejudices?
This agenda emphasizes intercultural communication as the best way to break down prejudices and negative clichés on both sides.
Here, too, local governments, which are the most susceptible to popular prejudices, will be empowered to implement a law that seems specifically targeted at the Rohingyas, with their large families.
If policies or prejudices have not persuaded that undecided 17% of voters, they must be looking for something else.
In the decades immediately after World War II, when anti-Semitism was even more widespread than it is today, people with deeper prejudices were actually more accurate in identifying Jewish people in pictures.
Often, secondary Marxist thoughts linger on and are accepted as universal prejudices.
It is time to put aside moralistic prejudices, whether based on religion or an idealistic form of feminism, and do what is in the best interests of sex workers and the public as a whole.
His program spoke to genuine concerns of ordinary people--defending lifestyle-liberalism against religious orthodoxy, for instance; advocating feminism and economic liberalism against benighted prejudices; and strengthening security against terrorism.
The idea behind the “Bradley effect” is that white voters won’t reveal their prejudices to pollsters.
In fact, the free-market “Anglo-Saxon” attitude sounds like nothing so much as the old prejudices about the French that have been around since the novelist Thackeray told English readers: “The Frenchman has after his soup a dish of vegetables, where you have one of meat.
Trump – roughly half of whose supporters have only a high school education or less – is especially deft at pandering to racial prejudices and hostility toward immigration.
The Eurogroup, which comprises the 19 eurozone finance ministers, embodies this destructive dynamic, meeting every few weeks (or even more frequently) to manage Europe’s crisis on the basis of national political prejudices rather than a rational approach to problem-solving.
By contrast, the 2016 referendum offered voters an illusory choice between reality and fantasy: a fair-tale Brexit, onto which they could project whatever hopes or prejudices they cared to imagine.
And in the United States, Donald Trump has capitalized on the frustration and prejudices of parts of the American electorate to gain a chance – fortunately, weakening by the day – of becoming the country’s next president.
Barack Obama’s American RevolutionFor eight years, George W. Bush has managed to incarnate and reinforce all the prejudices and negative stereotypes the world has of the US.
Among the many factors pushing women to migrate are pervasive gender bias and social prejudices against single mothers or widows in their country of origin.
This kind of bigotry, designed to mobilize the most ignorant sections of Russian society behind the president by pandering to their prejudices, should elicit more protest than it has.
Some sheltered Jews -- despite their own prejudices -- simply because they saw it as their religious duty to do so.
Without limits placed on the appetites and prejudices of the majority, intolerance will rule.
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