Quote Originally Posted by birdgirl73
My impression has always been that prejudice is more cultural than biological, too. People somehow learn it from the exposures they get. It's not biologically inherent. Those attitudes can be passed along or taught in families and passed down from generation to generation, which some might argue is somehow biological, but that, too, is really cultural/environmental. The prejudice that results is learned behavior in the environment or culture of a family. The family itself just happens to be biologically connected.

Preferences are, to me, a different thing. My preference for scrambled eggs over fried eggs doesn't signal a prejudice against fried eggs. Just a preference for scrambled. In nature, animals often choose mates based on a preference for symmetry and will often ostracize asymmetrical animals from their flocks or herds. There's a biologically driven preference for symmetry, but the ostracization of asymmetrical animals isn't based on prejudice because, of course, those animals don't have a preconceived notion and aren't making an unreasonable judgment. They're acting on a different, no doubt evolutionarily driven level and indicating a preference that, to them, is imminently reasonable because symmetry in nature signals good genetic health.
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