What forms personal biases?

• race
• beliefs/religion
• past experiences
• the viewpoints of my parents
• our media sources
• gender
• socio-economic (where you end up working)
• age
• educational/other institutions

How can we evaluate and consider multiple perspectives regarding world issues?

Fact vs opinion

• facts can be proven and are backed by evidence
• opinion is subjective to every individual

Perception

Based on the things we focus on, those will only be the issues we are aware of

• Doesn’t give us the full picture
• Based on the sources we use, our perception of a given issue changes

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