So people aren't born with preferences and/or prejudice over others?

[Anonymous]

For instance, after years of dealing with the illegal Mexicans, those that won't assimiliate or those that do/sell drugs, it be overwhelming to the point you just don't want to hear from them. I'm guilty of one day saying ''these damn dirty, ugly, wetbacks'' to my close friends.

Here is the irony:

There are several pictures of me from ages 4-6. My playmate appears on those pictures. Many times we would hold hands. He was indeed a Mexican boy. I had no preferences at the time, none. In fact, my mother tells me that one day we kissed for a bit. That was technically my first kiss, lol.

Ironic isn't it? The very first boy I ever liked and kissed was Mexican. Now I've grown tired of the bad ones taking over and developed my own preference over what type of men to date. So we're not born with preferences nor prejudices over others?

[RavVid]

Nah, I think there is a bias to same same but different. A simple example if you were living in northern Europe (possibly Canada) before commercially available vitamin D capsules then it would be a bad idea for you to have a baby to a guy with a dark skin because your baby would have vitamin D deficiency. Instead if you chose a white guy than baby would be fine.

The point is you would be giving up an evolutionary advantage for your baby. The same same but different preference is an evolutionary advantage to maintain local adaptions.

When you were a little girl you hadn't hit puberty yet. I think the rest is more learned bias/prejudice. Not that that is inexplicable. Lets say there are purple people. If you get mugged a dozen times by purple people you aren't going to be happy with them and you will become biased against them.

[Asker]

Yes I had to deal with lots of garbage from Mexicans. All these things happened:
- They don't care about learning basic English, not even after 10+ years
- All the other immigrants are assimilate but them
- They don't care about coming the legal way and plus have anchor babies
- A Mexican stole from my parents several years ago. My parents never got their money back.
- My former female Mexican friend (she's not my friend anymore) scammed me. I had to threatened to sue her to get my money back.

This bias didn't happen overnight though. It was a slow process. I'm fed up with their disgusting behaviors.

[RavVid]

I can understand that.

[jshm2]

Nah, you were still a bigoted racist then. You just had not discovered the bitter, lonely creep that you eventually became.

Get it into your head, It is White people who are the ones who came on boats. The Mexicans and their great forefathers have always been on the continent.

Also, only a court of law decides who is and isn't "illegal," not dipshit racists.

[Asker]

They seem to be the only group that gave nothing but trouble for years. Yes long ago, California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, etc did belonged to Mexico but not anymore so therefore, they can't just cross the border, come and live illegally. On top of that, they don't even want to learn basic English and have their anchor babies.
Other immigrants at least come the legal way and assimiliate. So it's not about the color my anger is coming from (I have nothing with blacks nor other non-white legal immigrants or citizens) but their crap they're bringing, their garbage, their behaviors.

[Agagagagaga]

And you’re a bigoted bagel muncher. Go shove a dreidel up your ass and turn in a circle. Maybe you’ll spin.

[Asker]

@Agagagagaga
Well I've had bad experiences with them. They're the only group that have given me and my parents trouble, no one else.

[Anonymous]

I find it funny when you say Mexicans won’t assimilate when white people and black people are not true Americans.
Also I believe it’s probably more common to find Mexicans with native indigenous Indian American heritage than in white and black people.

[Asker]

Whoever is born here (unless they're children of a diplomat) is a US citizen automatically, even their anchor babies too. Texas, Nevada, Utah and the other states don't belong to Mexico anymore and so therefore they need to come the legal way like the rest of the immigrants do. We're tired of their unwanted behaviors.

[Opinion Owner]

There is a difference between nationally and ethnicity

[Dargil]

Discrimination, Prejudice, Bigotry and Racism are taught by parents, academics, the mass media and government. Young, uncontaminated children have none of these things.

[Asker]

They're the only group that have given me and my parents trouble. Meanwhile the other immigrants come legally and assimilate to the host country, they don't do that. I think too much of unwanted behaviors from a certain group and also later on having bad experiences with them can be so irritating to the point you're disgusted by them.

[Dargil]

It depends a lot about where in the USA. I am in Tennessee. The illegals that make it here keep their heads down and work diligently. They are slow to assimilate like the Italians were because their culture is also their support group. If they want to break out and move up, they have to assimilate. A difference is that the Italians, Poles, Greeks and even the Irish liked their cultural extraction but WANTED to be Americans. The Latinos want to bring their countries here, hence the crime and drugs. America's leadership has been failing for decades to inspire immigrants to want to be Americans. That's where the DEI nonsense is fouling our nests.

[Anonymous]

Who cares if you’re “guilty” of calling wetbacks wetbacks. If the shoe fits!

[Kaneki05]

Well duh. No one is born with it.

[Asker]

yes and unfortunately I had a couple bad experiences with them. One of them stole from my parents several years ago and they never got their money back.