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[CMV] I believe that prejudice can sometimes be justified.

I know what it means to be prejudiced. More importantly, I know what racism is. I know that in almost every situation, they are ignorant and unjustifiable. But I've been pondering something for a while now that I frankly don't see as all that unreasonable.

I like bowling. I go bowling non competitively a lot. There are a lot of times when I go to the bowling alley and there will be a group of Indians bowling near me. I've always noticed that they, more than any other people I'm bowling around, will have more balls than anyone else. A majority of them are never used. To put this in to perspective, a group of three will have seven or eight balls, most of them put under the rack where balls aren't being used. This can get frustrating when I can't find a ball with the right weight and hole size that I need and I see that they have one but aren't using it. Yes, I understand that I can't just blame them for being the only ones who do this, I know that there are a lot of people who get way too many balls. Just the coincidence in my experience that nearly every group of Indians does this is curious. The Indian-to-non-Indian-rude-bowler-ratio is when I can't help but notice this.

The other thing I noticed is that they don't seem to have regard for the proper etiquette of waiting until the player next to you is done bowling before you bowl. It can be really difficult to have a good game when you get distracted by someone else running up next to you. Again, I know there are a lot of people guilty of this, but the coincidence is just too weird. 

I've just noticed that I automatically jump to the conclusion that the Indian people playing around me will do those things. 9/10 they do. In any other setting, I have absolutely no prejudice with Indians. Every time I'm bowling with Indian people around, should I have an unbiased outlook? Should The Dude simply abide? Or does my involuntary rough use of the scientific method help justify where I'm coming from?

I would like to point out that I am referring to the people of India, not Native Americans.

Edit: Turns out that I'm not prejudiced! I just have negative connotations with people who appear to be from India in the bowling alley setting. My view has been changed!
gpt
Prejudice is forming opinions without evidence, and then (often as not) ignoring evidence when it conflicts with your prejudice.  

You have some evidence: inconsiderate bowlers who appear to be from India. Here's what you can say without prejudice: people at your bowling alley who appear to you to be of Indian descent tend to seem inconsiderate to you. You're on safe ground (from the POV of logic), so long as you recognize this for what it is, a hypothesis built on anecdotal evidence that could be contradicted at any time. If you present a hypothesis as proven and "true" about an entire class of people when you have no evidence for that, then you are being prejudiced (and probably rude).  

Here's what your evidence does not prove. A) You can't say that all Indian people are rude bowlers. Maybe it's just the ones who live and bowl in your neighborhood, maybe these people are all friends with the owners of the bowling alley, maybe you're just unlucky. There are 1.6 billion Indian people in the world, and you've only observed maybe a hundred of them bowling. You can't even begin to draw conclusions about the entire culture, much less the ethnicity.  

B) Are you even sure they're Indian? Some might be Pakistani, Afghan, Bangladeshi or other SE Asian/Subcontinent emigres. Maybe they're all Bhutanese, and the truth is that Bhutanese are rude bowlers. Maybe they're all from one province of India, and that one province is notorious for a rude, aggressive style of tenpins.  

C) They might not intend to be rude at all. Bowling etiquette is different for different people, and if these people are all recent immigrants, it may well be that nobody has filled them in. Your conclusion that they are intentionally ill-mannered may be wrong for that reason, and they would (mostly) be horrified if they knew the anglo bowlers around them were quietly, passive-aggressively fuming over their breach of decorum.