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To inform you about what you might read, it was spontaneous. After I began, the words kept flowing. I just thought about it and said, "Hey why don't I make a journal entry?" So I did. I didn't expect people to read it. No one has to.

We all hate something right? Whether it's spinach or that jerk down the street. That kind of hatred is the easiest to diminish. We could learn to like spinach a lot more, or learn that that jerk down the street has abusive parents and takes his anger out on other people. You can learn to sympathize with him. <span id="test17894455">. . .</span><br/><div id="post17894455" style="display:none; margin-right:75px;">
Some people's hatred is there only because of genralizations. We could say all Americans are snobby fat jerks. But that generalization is not true. Not every single American in the trillions of Americans are like that, most are no where near that. So why do people do this?
I believe that people generalize sometimes so they can have something to hate. They feel the need to dislike something, or something like that. I don't hate any race, there is no reason. We are all people. We are all the same on the inside, just different on the outside.
Some people hate people because thier ugly, or dumb. I don't hate people unless they are mean and or cruel to me. But even then it's not hate, more like dislike.
Now if their ugly, dumb and mean, no one will like them. But if your ugly, dumb but have a heart of gold, you can make lots of friends.
Some people may hate certain races because of something else. Like once, I heard that some one hated some race because of a sport they invented. Dumb, right?
Others hate races because of stereotypes. It's like saying all Mexicans are illegal immigrants. It isn't true. At all.
Some people feel like they need to fit into a stereotype. Some black people act ghetto for instance. They would act all hard and tough and cause a commotion and have a constant anger about them. Some times it was the way they were raised, other times, it's because they feel like they will be respected because of it. Well, it's actually the opposite.
Racism, something about a person you can never change. Racism is usually because of ignorance. All you can do is inform them. Some one may hate Jewish people. You could show them a whole video about the Holocaust, and they still wouldn't care a bit more. (From the novel- Churnowitz) Most of the time, it's for no reason at all. They just don't like the race because they saw, I guess you would say, and example of only how some of the people of the race act. Then they would generalize the whole entire race, with billions of people. Dumb, right?
Sometimes, if they go around hating a race, and some one from that race gives them an intellectual conversation, a "Good Job", or a nice complement, their whole view may change. However, most people are more dense than that.

To be Continued.</div>