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  • SW42@lemmy.worldtoEurope@feddit.org•Immigrants to Germany and the European Union are more highly educated than ever before, according to a new studyEnglish
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    15 days ago

    I agree with you wholeheartedly. In an ideal world, things would function like this and we would judge every person in an individual basis. One issue is that migrants from different countries sometimes have vastly different socio-economic backgrounds and norms that are in general not compatible with common the average views and ways of life in the host countries.

    That is neither good nor bad and is in no way any fault of the migrants themselves. Like in every group there are people with views more aligned to a more moral and liberal inclusive point of view and those who are not. What I argue is that we as humans have evolved traits to quickly judge and assess others based on characteristics and stereotypes as shortcuts (as described in Kahneman’s “Thinking fast and slow”). As a consequence, the actions of a few lead to a more widespread stereotype (which to be fair is based on facts) that is then applied to the general population belonging to the same ethnicity or minority. That is true in both negative and positive prejudice.

    That was my whole argument. I abide by the law and pay taxes , have a higher education and I still am sometimes viewed in the same context as those from my nationality that steal, beg, destroy property, discriminate against people of other sexuality or beliefs or are behaving inappropriately in public. That is of course unfair and racist. My statement was that if there weren’t these people that do all of these there would be no basis for the kind of racism that exists against my ethnicity. Thank you for coming to my ted talk :)