Intolerant people share these 12 flaws

It seems difficult to believe that in the XXI century there are many individuals intolerant of others. It is to put your hands to the head when you put the news and see that Donald Trump, candidate for the presidency of the United States, has a large number of followers. One thinks: "it seems that something is wrong ..."

Intolerant people express it in different ways, for example, in a conversation about the homosexuality, making it clear that they still live with the primitive mind (or perhaps atrophied) supporting ideas full of prejudices. But above all, they make their discomfort evident with an aggressive, resentful and impolite tone. Without a doubt, intolerant people, it is better to keep them away.

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Characteristics of intolerant people

Whether we like it or not we have to live with these types of people. But what are these characters like? Intolerant people present a series of characteristics (if you can call it that, because I would call them defects) that you can find below.

1. They are full of prejudices

Intolerant people have too many prejudices, namely, they prejudge a person or situation based on a previous opinion or something that is poorly known. And, in addition, they are influenced by stereotypes, ideas of something or someone accepted as a pattern of qualities or behaviors.

In a sense, first impressions and biases cause these types of people to attack the interests of others before learning what they really are.

2. They discriminate

This model of thinking based on prejudices and stereotypes leads them to become discriminatory and intolerant people, that at the minimum they get angry. They tend to discriminate on the basis of race, sex, sexual orientation, disability, or other disorders. Any identity categorization is a good excuse to offer unequal treatment.

3. They are fanatics

Intolerant people are people with a high degree of fanaticism. Since these people strongly believe in their ideas, they also defend them with exaggerated and unbridled passion. Group fanaticism also favors the formation of prejudices towards other groups of people, and is a breeding ground for intergroup conflict, but also interindividual.

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4. They are uncompromising

It may seem that the words intolerant and intransigent are the same, but, despite being closely related, they are not exactly the same. Intolerance is not accepting the ideas of others, believing that you know everything, and openly discussing these ideas; while intransigence is not giving in to the demands and requests of others. Intolerant people are also, very often, intransigent.

5. Do not listen

Intolerant people defend their ideas, but not only that, but do not listen to the opinion of others. Since they think they are right about everything, their idea is the only one that counts and they consider that knowing what other people think is a waste of time. In practice, it is as if the opinion of others does not exist.

6. They are authoritarian

The authoritarian personality is a set of individual characteristics that are generally learned during childhood and that include undemocratic and intolerant traits. Many times, someone who has been raised in an environment with many rules and in which the expression of ideas and feelings is restricted, ends up adopting a dominating attitude when dealing with the rest.

When you come across an authoritarian person, it doesn't matter if they are right or wrong, the opinion of others has no value and you have to obey them or they fly into a rage.

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7. They have problems with their interpersonal relationships

And of course, taking into account the previous characteristics, it is clear that intolerant people have serious difficulties in maintaining interpersonal relationships and they conflict with other people quite often. They always try to be right and look down on others.

At the base of these conflicts, the lack of communication, one-sidedness and domination usually play a determining role.

8. They have dichotomous thinking

For intolerant people, it is either white or black, they have no middle ground.. They are people who want to have everything under control, because they have grown up in families that have generally raised them in this way.

For this reason, those who are intolerant tend to categorize as "enemies" people who do not position themselves in their favor on certain issues.

9. Fear of uncertainty

Since they are people who want to have everything under control and think that everything is black or white, they are afraid of uncertainty and do not want to accept that there are other points of view and that in life everything is not always well tied. They hate spontaneity and the unexpected.

10. They are psychologically inflexible and rigid

One of the causes of the previous point is their rigid thinking and that they only think that there is one truth: theirs. There are no more options, and when someone pretends to face up to your opinions, great anxiety is generated inside. It is this fear of the unknown that makes them behave like this, intolerant. This is your way of ensuring that the only truth in existence is yours and no one else's.

11. They explode to the minimum

Intolerant people they see other people as threats, and when someone tries to oppose them they act hostile. Having a discriminatory mindset and being fans of their ideas, they are often aggressive towards other individuals or groups.

12. Critics don't fit

These people don't know how to take criticism, and as mentioned in the previous point, they act in bad manners when someone tells them that they are not doing it right. On occasion, we have all received criticism. Sometimes they may not be true, but at other times they can help us to ask ourselves what we are doing wrong. Intolerant people do not criticize themselves.

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Spiteful people: What are they like?

In addition, these types of people are also often spiteful and vindictive. Grudge is a negative feeling that can be very detrimental to your psychological health.

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