RAISING CHILDREN WHO HATE OTHERS - PART 1

One day, during a routine conversation my middle daughter suddenly asked, "Daddy, IS WHITE PARENTS RAISING RACITS CHILDREN THE SAME AS BLACK PARENTS RAISING ... CHILDREN?"

In the blank space you can put any minority persecuted group and the principle would remain the same.

I did try to answer as best I could then. I had been thinking about writing something about it, but was also reluctant as it is such an explosive topic, and when you write, as against when you are talking to someone F2F, it is difficult to address any misunderstandings that my arise. However, a few days ago when a reasonably educated person shared a meme about a young man from my parent country killing someone of a different belief system and praised this act, I knew I had to write something, if only to protect my children and children of my family and friends, from seeing such senseless hatred as ever being justifiable.

The primary reason human beings hate other groups of people is that they are 'different' from us in some way, and some people cannot tolerate difference. Upon further reflection, I could come up with three main categories of differences which provide enough justification for some people to hate other people.

Continued...