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title: "Dialogue is the greatest remedy for prejudice!"
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# Dialogue is the greatest remedy for prejudice!

## Bilgi

| Özellik | Değer |
|---------|-------|
| **Kategori** | saglik |
| **Yayın Tarihi** | 2024-04-01 |
| **Güncelleme** | 2026-02-20 |
| **Kaynak** | [Üsküdar Haber Ajansı](https://uha.com.tr/dialogue-is-the-greatest-remedy-for-prejudice) |

## Özet

Stating that prejudices are decisions made automatically by humans without control, Psychiatrist Prof. Dr. Nevzat Tarhan said, “Some people speak very fast, they speak with automatic thoughts at that speed. Some speak slowly, knowing where their spoken words will lead, speaking gradually. Such people do not make automatic, quick decisions; they make goal-oriented choices. They do not fall into the traps of prejudice. Prejudices are traps in our lives.”

## İçerik

Prof. Dr. Tarhan said, “If we want to dispel our prejudices, we will establish contact with people. We will know ourselves, change, correct our mistakes, and move forward. As social contact increases, prejudice decreases. Dialogue is the greatest remedy for prejudice.”

Üsküdar University Founding Rector, Psychiatrist Prof. Dr. Nevzat Tarhan, evaluated the issue of prejudice.

“Prejudice is divided into two: conscious prejudice and unconscious prejudice”

Stating that prejudice is divided into two: conscious prejudice and unconscious prejudice, Prof. Dr. Tarhan said, “Unconscious prejudice causes us to systematically make mistakes when operating our decision-making mechanisms in our brains. We are not aware that we are making a mistake, and we cannot understand or find the reason for our mistake. If a person has an unconscious prejudice such as ‘apologizing is wrong, apologizing is a weakness,’ then that person’s own truth exists in their life as a value judgment.”

“If a person says apologizing is not weakness but virtue, they can correct their mistake”

Stating that both value judgments and prejudices are related to the functioning of the human brain, Prof. Dr. Tarhan explained, “To simplify our lives, our brain’s operating system has prejudices from childhood. When a person says ‘apologizing is a weakness’ in their thought life, even when they make a mistake, they attribute the fault to an external cause, blaming someone else. Their life passes with these mistakes, unable to correct or learn from them. But if a person says apologizing is not a weakness but a virtue, they can correct their mistake. It is a simple unconscious prejudice.”

“To say that death is not an end, but a new birth, a beginning, is conscious prejudice”

Prof. Dr. Tarhan also noted the existence of conscious prejudice, stating, “If a person thinks that death is not an end, but a new birth, a new beginning, they shape their life by preparing for it, and this is conscious prejudice.”

“Prejudices are decisions made automatically by humans without control”

Explaining that hyperactive people also act without thinking, Prof. Dr. Tarhan said, “These are individuals who act with their implicit prejudices. Prejudices are decisions made automatically by humans without control. Some people speak very fast; they speak with automatic thoughts at that speed. Some speak slowly, knowing where their spoken words will lead, speaking gradually. Such people do not make automatic, quick decisions; they make goal-oriented choices. This is not easy; it is also related to becoming wise. They do not fall into the traps of prejudice. Prejudices are traps in our lives.”

“Egocentric individuals do not question themselves because they see themselves as flawless and perfect”

“Stubborn people are those who cannot change their prejudices,” said Prof. Dr. Tarhan. “Egocentric individuals do not question themselves because they see themselves as flawless and perfect. They lack the capacity for introspection and self-criticism. They can only begin to question themselves when they make a big mistake.”

“There are political prejudices behind the Gaza events”

Prof. Dr. Tarhan explained that people saw that World War II was actually a war of racism, how bad the 'superior race' struggle was, but history is repeating itself, stating, “Now we are experiencing the same thing again, we are experiencing it in the Gaza events. Behind this are political prejudices. There are feelings of ‘we are the superior race’ and ‘we have a right to everything.’ Humanity progressed by paying a price. But interestingly, in a way never seen before in history, thanks to communication, people globally mobilized in the digital world for the Gaza event. This is a good sign for the coming years.”

“Traditions are automatically learned prejudices”

Prof. Dr. Tarhan also stated that prejudices are the first foundations of personality and life scenarios inherited from parents, saying, “Those prejudices settle into our soul, which develops in our nuclear family. They form our implicit prejudices. Like knowing manners, showing respect to elders, tradition, hospitality… In our culture, these come through social learning. A child raised with Anatolian manners does not cross their legs in front of elders. This is an automatically learned prejudice. Western societies do not feel the need for such a thing. These are formed by social learning. Mentally, cerebrally, neuropsychologically, a human is born prematurely. One learns to be human in life.”

“Almost all of our automatic prejudices have the potential to be corrected”

Prof. Dr. Tarhan also emphasized that prejudice is generally referred to as negativity, explaining, “The general term is stereotypes. Stereotypes are called ‘stereotypical.’ In a political psychological study conducted in America, a white mother is walking with her child, a Black person comes from the opposite direction, and the mother immediately pulls her child closer to her. She is completely unaware, doing it unknowingly. Why is she doing it? Automatic prejudice. She wouldn't do the same if it were a famous Black person. Almost all of our automatic prejudices have the potential to be corrected. Therefore, a person should question themselves throughout their life, saying, ‘Where am I making a mistake?’ If you say every person is unique, every person is original, we have no right to belittle anyone. If you can learn something from everyone, even a child, then you can change your value judgments.”

“Goal-oriented thinking trains the frontal region of the brain”

Prof. Dr. Nevzat Tarhan noted that the saying ‘don't believe everything you hear, and only half of what you see’ indicates a situation that reduces prejudice, and stated that the frontal region of the brain can be trained by working and thinking in a goal-oriented manner, and that a person's goal-oriented thinking will develop the muscles in the frontal lobe region.

“Due to mental blindness, people react wrongly, and relationships break. This results in loneliness”

Stating that prejudiced people are negligent when evaluating others, Prof. Dr. Tarhan said, “They are unaware; they have mental blindness. Because of that blindness, they misinterpret. They misread the actions of other people, react wrongly, and the relationship breaks. This results in loneliness. There is a global loneliness epidemic. We are in a very good situation regarding this in our society, but globally, loneliness is very high, especially among young people.”

“The greatest success is inner peace”

Stating that a societal prejudice comes to the fore in this situation, Prof. Dr. Tarhan continued as follows:

“Currently, there is a trend to love oneself more. Loving oneself does not mean sacralizing oneself. A strong, self-confident person will see their strengths and weaknesses. They will take precautions for their weaknesses and act according to their strengths. To love oneself actually means to be at peace with oneself. In this era, success — having power, being rich, having money, being famous — has become important. However, the most beautiful, the greatest success, is inner peace. For a person to have inner peace, to be peaceful with their family… There is nothing more successful than this. Even Aristotle says the purpose of life is to be happy. We understand happiness as doing whatever we want. However, happiness is being able to find joy in ordinary things… A person who says ‘I’ll be happy if I have this, I’ll be happy if I have that’ is driven by external motivation. Being able to act with internal motivation, being able to make oneself happy, being at peace with oneself is important. These are also closely related to our capacity to change our prejudices.”

“People with prejudices do not want to see”

Referring to Einstein's quote, “I split the atom, but I could not split my prejudices,” Prof. Dr. Tarhan also reminded the saying, “I convinced 40 scholars with one piece of evidence, but I could not convince one ignorant person with 40 pieces of evidence.”

Prof. Dr. Tarhan also noted that people with prejudices do not want to see, and concluded his words as follows:

“It is called the deepest ignorance. Complex ignorance... In old terms, 'cehl-i mürekkeb,' not knowing and not being aware of not knowing. The person is ignorant, does not know they are ignorant. To know that one does not know is also a virtue. They do not know that they do not know. And they think they know. These are people with the highest level of prejudices. You must stay away from them, flee from them. If you interact with such people, you cannot correct them. They will pay a price. Usually, the biggest price for most of them is loneliness.

If we want to dispel our prejudices, we will establish contact with people. When there is a mistake, we will say, ‘Where did I make a mistake?’ We will know ourselves, change, correct our mistakes, and move forward. As social contact increases, prejudice decreases. Dialogue is the greatest remedy for prejudice. Not avoiding social environments is important.” Doi number: https://doi.org/1

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