What kind of image do you have when you are asked what is the characteristic of Ibaraki? Mito-Koumon? Kashima-Antlers? From my experience after I graduated from high school and left Ibaraki, most people says "Ibaraki is famous for natoo. All the people from Ibaraki is a natoo-lover!" Whenever hearing of such a reply, I feel it is a kind of prejudiced images on Ibaraki.
The stumbling block our group discussed was stereotype and preconception. Every member agrees that stereotype has always been with us anywhere, anytime even if we do not pay attention to it. Moreover, in my opinion, even within the same country, people often have a biased image on other group of people. These kind of misunderstanding is mostly due to lack of knowledge, so the key to avoiding stereotyped thinking, which is also true of stereotype about foreign people, is to get enough knowledge about other group like history or language.
There is one more thing that I noticed about Baner. Although ,at first, it is convenient to study the six stumbling blocks separately, because one stumbling block can influence the other blocks, we also have to study how each stumbling block may be related with each other. This would help us to protect our way of thinking from the six stumbling blocks.
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