Master Your Inner Caveman Analysis

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Master Your Inner Caveman
Prejudice is a judgment based on a preconceived notion about a group of people because of the way they look or act. This perception about an ethnic group or simply a person has existed since the beginning of mankind, it has been hardwired into our brains to think this way. You can see prejudice throughout history, examples being the holocaust of how it started based on the way people looked upon Jews and said that they were manipulating the financial sector. Or the way lots of people think that people who practice Islam are all terrorists which is a completely erratic and a horrible idea, which mosts prejudices are. This feeling about people is based on a primitive mindset of survival and the only solution to this instinct is education, so you can make a conscious thought before making erroneous accusations about people.
This negative stereotype started since the Paleolithic times where man was simply tribes of hunters and gatherers wandering from place to place looking for food, carrying this primitive mindset with them. If these tribes happened to wander across another tribe that may have looked different or acted in an unusual way, the primitive nature of these men would overtake and they would immediately think that different is atrocious. This mindset …show more content…

Education, is the only way to solve this hardwired mentality, through education people can learn to realize that people look and act that way for a reason. You may ask why is that man obese? Getting educated can teach you about how that man is fat, he may have come from a bad eating household, or he was just born genetically in that way. Through this understanding people can have more empathy and reasoning on why people are different. The way to stop the primitive mind is to activate the conscious mind and through doing so you can master your inner caveman and end

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