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Quote by: kygojags Actually in order to set aside your bias, one must actually obliterate it by somehow finding a neutralizing force to contradict it. For example, I had a bias that muslim women do not like football, however, I heard a muslim woman screaming very loudly at one game and was more passionate than most of the fans around her, which left me choking on my sterotype. After that, that particular bias never crossed my mind again. |
That is not entirely true. The bias is not gone, only lessened. Bias is harder to destroy than that. Only by recognizing and thus discarding bias can you set it aside, so to speak. Bias can summed up as what you believe, added to a little faith. You had faith that the women didn't like football. When that faith failed, your beliefs were challenged, and you begin to question your beliefs. However, you cannot deny the faith in that belief, so next time you see Muslim women at a football game, you will still feel a glimpse of bias that they don't like football, or won't enjoy it. You will watch and wait, and if your beliefs are challenged again, and maybe even again, then your beliefs ultimately disintegrate, taking every bit of faith in those beliefs with it.