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Ask yourself some questions, and see what your immediate reactions and images are.

Ask each question individually:
4 Black American pre-teens are coming for dinner tonight
4 Japanese American pre-teens are coming for dinner tonight
4 Indian American pre-teens are coming for dinner tonight
4 Muslim American pre-teens are coming for dinner tonight

What images and thoughts came to mind as you read each statement? Were they consistent across the groups? Are there differences in your reaction and assumptions? This is your sub conscious mind... what you've learned about different groups. It may change substantially as additional information is provided.

3 black men are standing on the corner
3 white men are standing on the corner.
3 chinese women are standing on the corner.
3 Syrian refuges are standing on the corner.
3 Police are standing on the street corner

Are the thoughts creating different images? Are do you see how the mind jumps to quick conclusions about people, based upon no information or are you equally fair to all?
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What I suspect is that our minds have "maps" for different kinds of characteristics and impressions in terms of safety, security, behavior, etc.. Those are biases... racial, ethnic. You can change the attributes to discover how you have an impression of different groups.

Our initial assumptions are formed by our minds filling in the gaps of important information. What is your mind trying to figure out? The assumptions can easily be false. Where are these images formed from? We are likely all different in that regard, but there may be generalities to gain. By discovering these issues... we can find problem areas and focus energy on correcting our views of others.

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Women love to color their nails, different colors. Why? This is clearly a "woman" thing... most men have no interest in this. Now they "glue on" nails, same difference to me... it's all nail decorating. Women love to be decorated.

Some history indicates coloring went back to 3200 BC and showed status... in black (important or green (lower class). Warriors wore paint... men. Modern nail polish was invented in 1930 by Revlon, after auto paint was invented.

https://www.nailsmag.com/392416/nail-polish-history-dates-back-to-3200-b-c

Since then, it's like standard woman behavior to start painting nails right along with having ears pierced. What were you thinking when you first saw or heard of having your nails painted? Guys don't do this. You'd think guys would paint with dark scary colors to intimidate others, have knife extensions like cats... to fight... but no...

Why do women paint their nails? Question sparked by a FB post of a woman who just had some new nails installed and had to show them off.