Biases Against Other Cultures

Life places us in a complex web of relationships with other hatful. Like what Marilynn Brewer, at one flower in her article, said of this natural pheno workforceon, our hu soldieryness arises out of these relationships in the phone line of friendly interaction. Moreover, our humanness must be sustained through societal interaction, and fairly constantly so.Group boundaries ar not physical barriers, merely rather discontinuities in the flow of affable interaction. To one degree or another, a companys boundaries encapsulate people in a social membrane so that the focus and flow of their actions are internally contained. Some boundaries are found on territorial location, such as neighborhoods, communities, and nation-states. Others rest on social distinctions, such as ethnic company or ghostlike, political, occupational, language, kin, and socio-economic class memberships.When applied to interpersonal and intercultural setting, this social interaction in the main generates prejudicial relationships among the several assorts. Primarily, I was having a sense that my cultural group is superior to members of the culturally diametrical groups, a feeling that the culturally different groups members are by nature different and alien, a sense that we pull in a proprietary claim to privilege, power, and prestige, and even a fear and incredulity that members of the culturally different groups relieve oneself design on our benefits. In this respect, preconceived opinion frequently reflects a sense of group membership or position.Indeed, it is not only the groups to which we immediately belong that earn a powerful lick upon us. Often the same holds true for groups to which we do not belong. Indeed, in mundane 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 perceptions towards religious matters. This is apart from the fact that we are both Christians.We also rely that Muslims have bias against women. As we re settinged some ins and outs, we reckon how the Quran gave women protection than traditional Arab practice of 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 each 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.But my friend and I believe Muslims and Christians, men or women, are educated. A number of Muslim women, particularly in the upper classes, are well educated and become cognise as artists, writers, and supporters of the arts. Nonetheless, we believe they are still sexists from a spiritual apex of view as the Quran states that men have authority over women because Allah has make 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 incoming our groups sphere, and they keep insiders within that sphere so they do not entertain rival possibilities for social interaction. At times we construe feelings of indifference, disgust, competition, and even outright conflict when we think about or have dealings with other cultural groups members. Such social differentiation may have these grounds 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 impregnable standing within a certain group, or we aspire to such membership, we beat on the groups norms and values. We cultivate its lifestyl es, political attitudes, musical tastes, food p characters, sexual practices, and drug-using behaviors.We give way for ourselves a comparison point against which we judge and evaluate our physical attractiveness, intelligence, health, ranking, and measuring 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 most 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 ii groups are viewed as competitive, negative attitudes (like prejudice) will be generated toward the out-group. Still, whereas competition had heightened knowingness of group boundaries, the pursuit of common goals led to a lessening of out-group hostilities and the enceinte of intergroup barriers to cooperation.Upon making substantial research myself, I learned that to avoid engage conflict between my primary group and 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 first step between what we have and what we believe we should have. Feelings of relative deprivation often suffer to social alienation and provide fertile conditions for collective behavior and extremist 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 stiff 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 historic distrust affec ting 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 adore or Outgroup Hate? Journal of Social Issue, Vol. 5, No. 3.