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At the same time, we judge things that we don't know by its look.

For people who don't know what difference between OS X and Unbuntu, the theme is the OS.

This happens everywhere. Racism is one of this bias. We tends to judge non-white as criminals in certain situations.

I don't tend to judge non-white as criminals. I tend to judge white man in black suits wearing sunglasses and big moustaches as criminals.

But you judge a person by look, right? That's the bias I was talking about. As a non white person, I can feel when people look at me walking on the street and their uneaseness in 4am in Harlem, NYC.

As long as human judge things by looks (I did not say this is good thing. I've been trying to remove biases in my perception in search for enlightenment since my teenager time from readings in Taoism/Buddhism), we will all suffer from a lot of misconnections to great things.

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