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The Psychology of Intergroup Discrimination

Graham M. Vaughan
Abstract: 

These 'Ocean Men' are tall beasts with deep sunken eyes and beak-like noses ... Although undoubtedly men, they seem to possess none of the mental faculties of men. The most bestial of peasants is far more human .. It is quite possible that they are susceptible to training and could with patience be taught the modes of conduct proper to a human being.
The beasts in question were Jesuit priests, seen through the eyes of a Confucian scholar in the Sixteenth Century.
Our past suggests that prejudice, discrimination, aggression, and extermination are part of the human condition.

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