(May 27, 2013 at 8:53 am)festive1 Wrote: My main recognizable prejudice? Southern accents. In conversation I'll often assume a person with a Southern accent is less educated and less intelligent than someone without a pronounced accent. Of course this is entirely biased and often incorrect. When I catch myself doing this, I try to mentally check myself and give the person back those automatically deducted IQ points. Nobody is stupid until they prove themselves to be such, and even unintelligent people can have something important to add.
Yeah, I'm guilty of that one, too. In my defense, however, most of the people I have met in real life with southern accents actually were less educated and less intelligent.
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