The phrase
"old prejudices" refers to biased opinions or unfair judgments that have been held by people for a long time, often based on factors such as race, gender, or religion.
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How does such grace serve to dissolve, or prevail over, the church - dividing vestiges
of old prejudices, misunderstandings and hostilities?
In schools across the country, we're seeing results that smash
old prejudices about what poor students can achieve.
Unprofessional work reinforces
old prejudices against indie authors, frustrates readers, and infuriates indies who produce quality work.
For black men, though, the challenges of the corporate life are daunting at least in part because they are sometimes hard to pin down — influenced as much by age -
old prejudice as by cultural preconceptions, the subtleties of psychology, and the weight of human history (more on that soon).
But religion is giving way to reason, and
old prejudices now seem hateful and immoral to good, conscientious people.
The physical encounter, or at least the proximity which would make it possible, helped
crack old prejudices.
FROM THE PUBLISHER: Being a black woman in America means contending
with old prejudices and fresh absurdities every day.
«To face these threats, all dragons, humans and fairies must truly unite;
yet old prejudices may undermine Darnuir's efforts once again.
No doubt economics are a major component — places that financially support art have art — but it also seems that
old prejudices don't die easily.
I have found that no creature is impossible to make appealing, and perhaps that is partly the role of the illustrator in the service of conservation education: to entice the viewer to
re-examine old prejudices and thereby better appreciate the ecological and aesthetic value of each and every form of life.
It's a complex issue, and tackling it effectively will require a multi-faceted, community - driven approach like the one being undertaken by A Tiny Home For Good — as well as communities opening their hearts and eyes to see
past old prejudices.
These scientists also
bore old prejudices against conservatives, to whom they attributed all kinds of anti-scientific leanings.
We are moving forward, rejecting stifling work lives, creating new ways to do business,
crushing old prejudices, doing nearly everything differently than the previous generation.
Even with that new data, however, Kirshner and his fellow scientists, supposedly the most dispassionate of observers, had to struggle to loosen the hold
of old prejudices.
«It doesn't make us better than them and it doesn't confirm the age -
old prejudices about stupid, brutish Neanderthals.
At best, this is new prejudice in old bottles; in fact, the dregs of
the old prejudice remain, topped off by the new.
What about Christian viewers in countries that historically displayed animus to Jews and have hardly purged themselves of the world's
oldest prejudice?
Today, while there is no official policy of segregation,
the old prejudices still exist.
All of a sudden, pop music made
an old prejudice wither away.
This study, in which scholars of greatest stature participated — men like Friedrich Max Müller, Nathan Söderblom, Rudolf Otto, Tor Andrae, Alfred Loisy, Gerardus van der Leeuw, Raffaele Pettazzoni — has given us a host of insights by which centuries -
old prejudices have been removed.
Fortunately, this is more of an issue with older scientists; Ph.D. students and postdocs seem to treat one another with respect, perhaps an indication that
the old prejudices are slowly starting to change.
Let go of
any old prejudiced ideas about the internet being for desperate people and see yourself as a proactive person giving yourself the very best opportunity for a happy and fulfilling future with someone who you may know more about before you meet than you ever knew about your ex before you married them.
The old prejudices no longer dictate how Interracial men and Interracial women view having children.
Not only does it keep a smile on our faces, but it also quietly says some potent things about
old prejudices that still linger in...
Probably due to
old prejudices about food being cheating or bribery.
The recent exhibition Besides, With, Against, and Yet: Abstraction and the Ready - Made Gesture at The Kitchen showed the radical diversity of what passes as abstract painting today, and has induced me to reconsider some of
my older prejudices.
It made no difference, though, because before it had even been published, BEST became a peg on to which the same
old prejudices, myths and politics were hung.