How to eleminate racism-4

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"I will unlearn my own prejudices."

This will be difficult, because I learned them
from people around me since early childhood,
and we tend to see what we expect or want to see.

Icon I will determine how deep are my prejudices:

- Were my ancestors steeped in traditions of prejudice?
- Do I express prejudice through ethnic jokes, slurs, epithets, and by sterotyping people?
- Do I identify with groups which think they gain from acts of discrimination?

Icon I will understand my emotions and those of victims of racism.

Icon I will recognize that different does not mean "better" or "worse", but simply different.

Icon I will break down barriers that make me uncomfortable about the behaviour and ideas of those who are different from me. I will develop closer, continuous contact and interact with them.

Icon I will not fear equal-status competition. People who are different from me are not an economic threat to me.

Icon I will become better informed, acquire new insights, make critical judgements, and grow in my understanding of the world.

Icon I will develop more positive behaviours towards members of all ethno-cultural groups.

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