People are different but we tend to view others the way we are ourselves.
This causes us to judge their behavior using our internal values and not theirs.
Everyone's world view is shaped by their experiences.
Certain values may be common, but even then they may be less common than they seem.
The more different the experiences, the less common the values.
Of course many of us have the same general experiences based on shared experiences.
F Scott Fitzgerald noted in the Great Gatsby that the rich are different. They grow up in a world where they can have anything they want and other people are always trying to help them.
This is not what most of us experience.
On the other hand we have a whole bunch of people who are viewed suspiciously simply because or the color of their skin.
The first group is just not able to truly understand the second.
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