It is truly unfortunate that some people look at the unknown with disgust. They willingly chose to abhor the uncertain instead of embracing their curiosity. Regrettably, this applies heavily towards certain groups with extreme and false generalizations (more on this later).
A prime exemplar of this is with a Muslim grandmother in the poem, My Grandmother Washes Her Feet In The Bathroom At Sears. As the name implies, this grandmother decided to go the restroom and wash her feet in a sink. Her granddaughter did not mind it because she knows that is just wudhu (cleaning yourself before Shalat). However, ongoing bystanders are not as tolerant. In fact, they are revolted by it. They think the grandmother’s actions are inappropriate because her feet are dirty (bacteria, old age, and/or maybe it's an uncommon action). Some people even protest and ask the granddaughter to tell her grandmother to stop
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Most Americans didn’t know much about Islam, just that 9/11 was caused by people from there. As a result, people started to generalize Muslims to the point where every Muslim is a terrorist. I know, I know. It sounds unreasonable (stupid) to cast an entire idea towards a group of people, and that’s the point. People started to discriminate against Muslims because of their ignorance (the poem is more of a watered down version of this). If fear wasn’t a factor, they would understand that the Muslims and any other groups of people are just that, people. There may be some bad apples. Their cultures and behaviors may be different. They may eat profoundly healthy (small jab at American stereotypes by the way) or wash their feet in a public restroom, but all that doesn’t matter. At the core, we are all people, so we should treat each other as such. Unless you think people in general suck, then I’m 100% with you on that (again, joke… sort