May Day
Date: May 17th 2010
May Day
We tend to form generalizations about groups of people based upon personal experiences with individual members of those groups. That’s called prejudice.
Not all prejudices are negative. For instance, I tend to have favorable opinions about “Bond girls” before I even see them. Personal experience has taught me to expect damn fine looking women in James Bond movies: Ursula Andress, Halle Berry, Jill St. John, Teri Hatcher, Jane Seymour, Pussy Galore… wait, maybe that last one isn’t a real name.
When it comes to Hispanic immigrants, I also have positive prejudices based upon personal experience. My contacts with immigrants from Latin America have been overwhelmingly good. I read about criminal elements and drug lords and gang warfare spilling across the U.S./Mexican border, and I keep expecting to run into some of those bad apples, but it never happens.
So my favorable opinion of Hispanic immigrants keeps solidifying… unfair advantages in traffic court notwithstanding ...
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