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I have social anxiety, and I have to admit that one of the triggers my anxiety is teenage and young adult black men. I feel for this guy and I realize that I'm
by reddytowns 10y ago
I have social anxiety, and I have to admit that one of the triggers my anxiety is teenage and young adult black men.
I feel for this guy and I realize that I'm part of the cause of his problem, but I don't know what I can do about it.
- l0b0 10y agoI always thought the most lasting remedy for xenophobia would be to simply have more to do with the group in question on a regular basis. At that point the brain, hardwired to fear the unknown no matter how much your rational bits protest that it's being unreasonable, has time to readjust your gut reaction. Then you'll instinctively (rather than rationally) treat each of "them" as individuals with an irrelevant common trait rather than just a specimen of a homogeneous group linked to negative statistics and over-reported incidents. Of course, if your particular lifestyle doesn't result in you getting to know anyone in the specific group naturally, it's probably impossible to fix that gut reaction. Humans are very much slaves to their instincts.