It took me a while to get my error of the other day out of my head. I thought a lot about it – too much even. I found it difficult to admit (emotionally) that I had been wrong and I continued to indirectly argue my case. I spent my time thinking about prejudice and I had a minor epiphany that allowed my mind to put this to rest.
If prejudice is maintaining an opinion in spite of reason, then the answer to solving it is teaching critical thinking. The commonly evoked solution is teaching understanding yet this does not seem to address the definition of prejudice.
Anecdotal evidence supports this theory. Asia has a racist reputation and a reputation for lacking in critical thinking. Google confirmed that theory of using critical thinking to reduce prejudice was neither new nor wrong.
It is funny that I had to ‘solve’ the problem intellectually to let go of it, yet the true problem was that I got upset when reason could not defeated a prejudiced opinion. I needed to find a way to win my argument without continuing the argument. This was the only way I could forget about it.
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