A TED talk about experiencing life and finding it different from what you are told

People are raised in households full of their family's views. Some of these views can be extreme, some can be just thoughtless prejudice. Few children grow up without being exposed to some judgemental comments about areas such as gender, social class, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, politics etc. We are being advised here to see the good in people and steer ourselves away from the damage that hate and condemnation and even judgement can do. He doesn't speak much about how he was persuaded to follow in his father's footsteps but you should read widely on how judgemental language dehumanises or demonises other groups so it becomes natural to exclude, hate and hurt them - this is the power of language to control thought and emotion and, to be protected against its effects, we should know how it works.