Misbah's apparent contentment made plenty of people look silly and a few re-examine their prejudices.
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The danger, said Mr Upton, is that people might feel obliged to lose their accents rather than their prejudices.
And in times of acrimony and fragmentation, people tend to vote their prejudices.
Novelists trafficking in the present would do well to abandon their lingering prejudices against historical fiction as something ready-made and second-rate.
This reinforces their existing prejudices, such as the belief that what Britain joined in 1973, and what Britons voted yes to in 1975, was in essence a free-trade area that only later transmogrified into a putative political union.
And yes, newspapers do chase their readership rather than mould them, they cater to the prejudices of their likely audience, not inform them as to what those prejudices should be.
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In reality they are no more than expensive drafting tools to produce power point slides to illustrate the ideas and prejudices of their creators.
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Building Europe was always going to be hard, but pro-Europeans are going to have to be much subtler and acute in their understanding of their fellow Europeans' prejudices if they are to succeed.
Whereas statesmen such as Monnet and Schuman considered the 1939-45 war as the final proof that traditional European political structures needed to be radically changed, the British tended to see it as a vindication of their own long-established democracy and as confirmation of their anti-continental prejudices.
In increasing numbers, women are fighting long-standing prejudices and are working their way to the top of companies or starting their own businesses.
Darabont's focus is always squarely on the humans, who quickly splinter into competing factions reflecting their own racial, class and educational prejudices.
The couple were among 200 contestants, mostly in their twenties, for the competition which asked questions on race, religion, prejudices and sexual attitudes.
That suggests their brains were more attuned to clustering by signals that would point immediately to group membership, than by prejudices about which individuals should be forming groups.
The co-ordinators of the project, who cut their teeth on the successful Midtown Community Court which opened in 1993, realise that they have deep-rooted prejudices to overcome.
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