hmm okay i see your point and will try to apply it. god bless and thank you.Brian OA wrote:
I don't know anything about this open-mind nonsense. That falls short whenever you're prompted by others to take up extremist, prejudiced, or illogical ideas you can't accept. Clearly, there is a point where you have to draw a line, even when your stance is complete neutrality.
Anyway, when you judge people, the best thing you can do is to do it fairly. Do it on a case-by-case basis, because people exist as individuals and not as groups. They can't help—as individuals—the standard or image others might make for them. Exceptions exist. People born now don't necessarily agree with what their country believed fifty or a thousand years ago. The public image is not necessarily the truth.
You ought to realize it yourself since you said you try to befriend people despite the prejudices in your mind. At least, for that much, I don't think of you as a bad person.
Then yet again, I never took you seriously because of the god bless thing in the first place but w/e.
inb4 do not judge lest you be judged
the funny thing is that i found my prejudices exclusively from the internet, reading articles and such.
one time i had a lao friend online, we were cool. as you might know it was on a highly nationalistic asian forum, the kind where they talk about pale skin beauty and the like. there was a forum fight between the lao and the viets, then he started talking bad about the vietnamese. i felt betrayed because i thought he knew better, but now i realized how much of a hyporcrite i am.