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Not always. Short people, for example, are biased against in job interviews and most people don't care.
by steveeq1 12y ago
Not always. Short people, for example, are biased against in job interviews and most people don't care.
- potatolicious 12y agoThe short people thing IMO supports my argument. There's a lot of evolutionary psychology drivel about how we're genetically predisposed to disliking short people due to lack of fitness, etc etc. But a lot of the bias against short people is cultural in origin and hasn't always been the case. See the historically shifting attitudes towards fat people (from envy to disdain, as societies have industrialized). We're taught by our upbringing and our surroundings to be biased against certain features in certain contexts - whether that's skin color, height, gender, orientation, or anything else. Some of this is colored by racism, sexism, or any number of other -isms we suffer from.
- steveeq1 12y agoThe shortness-bias is fairly culturally-universal, actually. And your point does little to refute that no one makes a big deal about this particular bias. (Not that I'm saying they shouldn't).
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