Monday, November 3, 2008

Parillo discusses the socialization process in a way that illustrates its power over the youngest generation of society. He states that prejudice, an idea in which one person has a predisposed position on a person before meeting them, is spawned in a child simply from the ideas of their parents and peers. This occurs because when a person is born, they have no opinion of what the world is or how it works. They then are ready to accept the ideas of any person who they come into contact with, and with no developed sense of right or wrong, the child naturally assumes that what they are hearing is right. Sometimes the children know exactly what they are doing, blatantly disregarding others whom they have been taught to avoid and other times, the child may not even know that they have developed these ideas until they start to naturally drift away from social whom they have developed a natural fear of. He ultimately believes that the prejudice that we see in the world would not exist if it were not for the existing prejudice that contaminates the minds of children in their youth, and that the bad character that exists in the world is a product of misled role models and imperfect peers. 

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