Biases Against Other Cultures

Life places us in a complex web of relationships with other people. Like what Marilynn Brewer, at wizard point in her article, said of this natural phenomenon, our humanness arises out of these relationships in the course of kindly interaction. More everywhere, our humanness must be sustained through social interaction, and fairly constantly so.Group boundaries ar not physical barriers, but rather discontinuities in the flow of social interaction. To one degree or another, a groups boundaries encapsulate people in a social membrane so that the focus and flow of their actions are internally contained. Some boundaries are based on territorial location, much(prenominal) as neighborhoods, communities, and nation-states. Others rest on social distinctions, such as ethnic group or religious, political, occupational, language, kin, and socio-economic class memberships.When employ to interpersonal and inter pagan setting, this social interaction generally generates prejudicial relations hips among the several groups. Primarily, I was having a sense that my cultural group is superior to members of the culturally different groups, a feeling that the culturally different groups members are by nature different and alien, a sense that we digest a proprietary claim to privilege, power, and prestige, and even out a fear and suspicion that members of the culturally different groups have design on our benefits. In this respect, prejudice frequently reflects a sense of group membership or position.Indeed, it is not only the groups to which we immediately be large that have a powerful influence upon us. Often the same holds true for groups to which we do not belong. Indeed, in cursory conversation, I recognize the distinction between my cultural group and those of others in our use of the personal pronouns we and they.For instance, because my friend and I have been comrades for quite a long time, we tend to mutually agree on many things including our recognitions towards religious matters. This is apart from the fact that we are both Christians.We also believe that Muslims have bias against women. As we reviewed some ins and outs, we reckon how the Quran gave women protection than traditional Arab law but did not ever have equality with men. Whereas Muslim men could be family-oriented, it only differs with Christians in that they are such in every family they have among many others. They could be protective of their families as the Quran only permits polygamy when the man is responsible enough to fulfill his responsibilities. alone my friend and I believe Muslims and Christians, men or women, are improve. A number of Muslim women, particularly in the upper classes, are well educated and become known as artists, writers, and supporters of the arts. Nonetheless, we believe they are still sexists from a spiritual point of view as the Quran states that men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other. This makes their sect patriarchal in nature as much as Christians is.Because of these biases, sometimes I tend to prevent outsiders from enter our groups sphere, and they keep insiders within that sphere so they do not entertain rival possibilities for social interaction. At times we realize feelings of indifference, disgust, competition, and even outright difference of opinion when we think about or have dealings with other cultural groups members. Such social differentiation may have these campaign for conflict between us and the other culturally different groups moral superiority, perceived threat, common goals, common values and social comparison, and power politics. Conflict intensifies ethnocentric sentiments and may lead to inter-group strife.Since we would like to view ourselves as being members in good standing within a certain group, or we aspire to such membership, we take on the groups norms and values. We cultivate its lifestyles, political attitudes, musical tastes, food preference s, sexual practices, and drug-using behaviors.We establish for ourselves a comparison point against which we judge and estimate our physical attractiveness, intelligence, health, ranking, and standard of living. This makes my ethnocentric view quite negative rendering people to take on social units with which we compare ourselves to emphasize the differences between ourselves and others. For the roughly part, the attitudes people evolve toward out-groups tend to reflect their perceptions of the relationships they have with the groups.Where the relations between two groups are viewed as competitive, negative attitudes (like prejudice) will be generated toward the out-group. Still, whereas competition had heightened consciousness of group boundaries, the pursuit of common goals led to a lessening of out-group hostilities and the lowering of intergroup barriers to cooperation.Upon making substantial research myself, I learned that to avoid direct conflict between my primary group an d the other cultural groups, we are introduced to the concept of concentric loyalties. When our membership group does not match our reference group, we may experience feelings of relative deprivation or discontent associated with the gap between what we have and what we believe we should have. Feelings of relative deprivation often contribute to social alienation and fork over fertile conditions for collective behavior and revolutionary social movements. The concentric loyalties then may also contain clues to processes of social change especially a perception change towards inter-group phenomenon.On a personal note, we can only manage the dynamics of the Christian-Muslim differences by employing effective learning strategies to resolve conflict among people whose cultural backgrounds and values differ. In the school setting, for instance, there could be training sessions and group discussions to understand the historical distrust affecting present-day interactions. If my friend and I have good neighbors among Muslims, others may not do as they could be misjudging others action based on their learned expectations.ReferenceBrewer, Marilynn. (1999). The Psychology of Prejudice Ingroup go to bed or Outgroup Hate? Journal of Social Issue, Vol. 5, No. 3.