Originally posted by zorrro
Skin color, caste, gender, status,age, education, nationality --- are some of the excuses offered for discrimination. But what about online interactions where all these are unknown? Dont we still feel instantly drawn to some members and are totally repulsed by others though anonymous? If these occur in the absence of the mentioned factors for bias why blame these discriminations alone ?
I think that some people simply ooze attraction whereas others repulsion irrespective of the presence or absence of these discriminating factors.
So what could it be ???
Insider-outsider phenomena, we might not be biologically programmed to be racist but we do tend to exhibit groupism due to evolutionary reasons, hence favor some and repel others. It goes both ways- negative and positive.
Prejudices will always be present where there is a difference of any sorts. But acting on those prejudices and shutting off the logic results in discrimination or racism .
Familiarity gives a sense of safety , appeasing our survival tactics, hence the basic instinct to be around those which are familiar.
