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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9509281.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %PERCEIVED HARM VIOLENCE OFFENSE PREJUDICE COLLUDE+950928 %EMBARRASS VIOLENCE COERCION MOTIVATION PERCEIVE+950928 %FRIEND ENEMY TRUST RISK RESPECT REJECT ACCEPT 950928 Whether or not we perceive that another person has harmed us depends heavily upon our pre-existing sense of how friendly, trustworthy, reliable and respectable the other person is. Much depends upon our prejudice. If we are looking for an excuse for believing that another person has harmed us---we can usually succeed in the effort. If we are looking for grounds for believing that another person is friendly, trustworthy, reliable and respectable---we can usually succeed in the effort. Whether or not we perceive that another person has harmed us depends greatly upon our prejudice. When people claim that they have been harmed by another person we need to take care to consider carefully whether the claim has been motivated and guided by prejudices---rather than by real harm which transcends prejudicial perceptions. This is especially important in the face of shared prejudices within a group of people who support each other's perceptions of harm even in the absence of real harm. Minority people who are lacking in self esteem and political power are often perceived to harm prejudiced people due to their embarrassing minority presence. Minority are perceived to harm prejudiced people just by being a minority challenge to the collusive games of mutual self deception of those prejudiced people who resent the minority presence. A minority presence is often embarrassing and/or offensive, quite apart from anything which minority people do. Their offense is that they are who they are; not that they have done anything which is harmful. The minority offense is failing to conform to the majority expectations and perceptions which are governed by collusive games of mutual self deception. Minority people who with integrity are open and honest about their experiences and perceptions---are embarrassing and offensive to prejudiced colluders; and so are perceived to have committed harmful acts. Prejudiced people can easily generate a consensus which makes the harm seem to be very real to them. In light of the above it is important when dealing with relationships between members of a minority group and members of a majority group that due process be guaranteed to members of the minority group---else personal and communal integrity will be violated to the loss of all groups. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================