With this topic, I immediately placed my mark all the way on the "true" end of the spectrum. This is because I felt that people aren't born with the tendency to hate others, but are rather taught that a group is either inferior or worse than they are. They can gain this perspective from teachers, parents, etc.
While I still feel that this is true, I feel like I need to shift my answer slightly more towards the "false" side, but not by much. This is because after some thought I feel like there is another aspect we need to consider in how hatred can be formed, and thats through unfamiliarity. While listening to the authority figures in your life can create hate in you, I think that it is human nature for a person to be intimidated by something they have had very little exposure to. For example, a white child who has never seen a black child until they were 13 is likely to shy away from the other person, and the opposite stands true. When we only have limited exposure to another set of people, we tend to assume that the little bit we see stands true for the entire race, thus we have now created prejudices within ourselves. Unfortunately it seems that more times than not, these assumptions we make about an entire group of people is negative, which is why I still feel that hatred is most learned, I feel like our distance from another group of people can lead us to hate, rather than being taught to hate.
