`Why do we hate?

Hate…Such a powerful and overused word which is used in our everyday conversations: “I hate love,” “I hate the rain.” We all have hate within us; it is an emotion that we are all born with, and seem to overcome  in our daily lives. Our world has always been overshadowed with hatred fuelled from many individuals.  At times we do not understand why we have this sudden feeling of hatred. Firstly, we hate because we are scared. In the novel “The Help” Ms. Hilly was hated by the house maids, known as the help. Their hatred towards her was compelled by fear because she was a powerful woman in terms of wealth compared to them. Another example would be how Ms. Hilly concluded to construct a separate washroom for the help. She anticipated that if they used the same toilet as them, it would spread a disease that they carried. Secondly, we tend to hate because we have been taught to.  In “The Help” all the white people of the community hated on the blacks because they grew up learning from their families that the blacks were in a lower class than them. An example would be Miss Hilly because she grew up learning from her parents actions on how they treated their maid, who was also black.  Lastly, we hate because we think it’s right, however it is not.  This can be shown through a Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram, and his experiment labeled the “Milgram experiment.” In this experiment he measured the willingness of people to obey a figure of authority who instructed them to perform acts that conflicted harm to another individual. A scientist would ask a person questions, and if the person did not answer them correctly, he would order someone in a different room to send a high voltage electric shock to him/her. The person pressing the switch would keep pressing it even if they knew that it was hurting a member of his/her community. They thought that it was okay to do because they were helping in a scientific study, even if they knew it would hurt someone else. This is the same with hate. People show hatred towards one another because they think it’s right, when in reality it is not. Therefore, we as individuals have hatred within us because we are scared, we have been taught to hate and because we think it is right to do so when conversely it is not.

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