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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Child Psychology 29- Make the Child Understand Prejudice Parents should not keep making the mistake. as many do across the world, of infecting their own children with the disease of prejudice from false ethnic pride. The disease spits out the poison of aversion or disdain or worse. contempt for groups or communities of people only for the reason that they are "different" and "not of us" in race. Culture, colour or faith.

Parents often groom their children into seeking a refuge or a sense of security against the people they had not known or even met. by looking down on them wit~ an uneasy dislike because of fear or mistrust of them arising from the mere fact that they are perceived "different". Parents do so unwittingly by being themselves vocal and liberal in expressing their sweeping prejudice in the presence of their children. The children trust their parents and accept their views.

however preposterous or generalised, as well-based and true. What is worse, children take it as normal to harbour and peddle such lines of prejudice. People with such mental weaknesses are known as "stereotypes" and are a threat to "islaah" (concord) so earnestly exhorted by Islam for the well-being of the human society. In the present world which is now mere one global village. there is no room for the people who are stereotypes or the children who are reared as such. Who Is A Stereotype ?

A person who holds a false and prejudiced opinion about the entire community of people whom he perceives as "different" and because of his unpleasant experience. however isolated, with a member or two individually of that community. Or the false opinion held was predetermined because it was also held by others of his own kind. The disease is infectious where ego and self-aggrandizement from stark ignorance abound.

A stereotype will twist, distort, misinterpret or even ignore the hard facts or glaring truth simply because they conflict with his "cherished opinions" which never had any valid basis in the first place. At the slightest opportunity, he is ready to make a quantum leap into a whimsical conclusion to comfort him in his prejudiced views. It is a disease of attitude (mind) which is often infected to the children by their parents, who themselves were also made victims during their childhood.

Once infected a remedy or remission is difficult where ignorance is perpetuated as a heavenly inspiration.