Do you believe society socializes us to dislike certain groups of people (i. e. women, people of color, disabled people, etc.)?

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

Yes

No

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

To dislike certain groups? Trying to break down how I perceive society then...

Kindergarten and elementary school taught me to not discriminate, simply by putting all of us together. Albeit with reservations, I remember an informal separation between girls and boys during playtime, we were not playing the same games, not much blending in fact, only during classes. I don't remember ostracism, fear associated though, just a separation, girls play this, boys play that.

Middle School was different, there I learnt there were, unofficially, the good year 6 classes and the bad year 6 classes. Aka the ones with the pupils with good grades and their counterpart. I also saw what we called back then the "specialized classes" aka the classes made of pupils with mental impairment. At this point ostracism was clearly in the air, this fear to be part of the disabled, and insults associated. There was also a form of hate developing for a certain group: Upper class or bourgeoisie as we called it. Translated humorously, it gave an insult: "son of a rich". We all avoided being perceived as having parents with money, fearing this insult.

From High School and beyond, I think I saw the end of prejudices around me, at least on the surface. Because the demographics of my High School, downtown high school, were probably a smooth average of middle class pupils together, so not much social difference between us because of the map. Since you get to public high school based on where you live, district based here. Same for all schools, except uni/college etc.

Aside from school, in my teen years, there was social mix, I recall blending with working class, middle class and, only to an extent, upper class. It's as if we were part of the same tribe, but again, on the surface. I knew I didn't have the same life, behaviors, reactions or family than say, a teen from working class, they were not like me, even if we talked as if there was no difference. But I felt this difference. I felt my despise growing, mildly, as well as my attempts to not despise, based on social class.

On top of class discrimination, there was "tribalization" based on, partially, music. There was a clear clash between hip hop/rap and rock/metal. You belonged to either side, picking a lane. Well, not really picking because environment forced us to be in either tribe, the way I view it. Even if RATM, Bodycount or Beastie Boys blurred the lines with their rap metal blend. It was still not enough to reconcile those two tribes, because it wasn't only about music, music defined where you lived, or where you lived defined music you listened to. Ghettos were about rap, middle class was about rock. Those two groups hated each other back then, like really hated, better not showing rock colors in a ghetto, better not showing rap colors downtown. Though this discrimination seems obsolete by now, since rap music conquered middle class, here, since 20 years?

There would be so much I'd like to add, about perceptions of people of color, which is way more ostracism based culture and ethnicity than color. About LGBTQIA+ aswell. About political sides picked, But it's a reaaaally long answer already lol.

Thanks for this question, I liked it a lot 🙂

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

Not forgetting the monks on fire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhuWmH5xtk4

[Syntosi]

No. This goes back way longer than modern society. Its a human quality to simplify the world in this way and to make it easy to assign negative stereotypes and blame to other groups. Its like the cave man part of our brain resurfacing.

[wynning]

Leaning towards no... society’s made up of influential groups and individuals - and they don’t all have the same “agenda” exactly. So I think it comes down to the individual and what views they internalise the most out of what they hear, understand and experience.

[MemeSupreme]

yeah but not as much when you're an adult

[WonderingManII]

Yes.