Why We Hate?

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out the machete and kill you. The men are somewhat known as perverts in society today mainly because when they see a woman they stare, whistle or even follow them. This is how society views the Mexicans today, so we fear when getting near a Mexican, we will be harassed or maybe even hurt.
Having social identity in a way is appropriate and important. It is theory by Henri Tajfel and John Turner to understand the psychological basis of intergroup discrimination. It is good to gain knowledge of your own social identity but since it’s categorized into gender, race and religion, many people have become separated from each other. The Puerto Ricans go with their race, the whites with their race and so on. It even goes as far as separation in schools from the preps, the jocks, the nerds and the misfits. People put themselves into these categories rather than joining together and getting to see the differences in people, they stay among their group and talk about other groups, how ...

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