A new University of British Columbia study finds that the way individuals experience the universal emotion of pride directly impacts how racist and homophobic their attitudes toward other people are.
"The kind of pride a leader tends to feel may partly determine whether he or she supports minority-group members or disregards them," says Tracy, a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar.
This article tells us that racism and self-esteem are interlinked with one another. A person who has high self-confidence is better at accepting people around him, while a person with low self-confidence would have difficulties as he cannot accept himself. Thus building up the pride in people is essential