Controversy: The Prejudice Debates

There are many ways we can reduce prejudice in a classroom and it’s important that we do that because it’s important that all students of different cultures are comfortable being in a class when getting their education. Three ideas for reducing prejudice in a classroom will be creating an inclusive environment, educate students about how prejudice is wrong, and teach students about different cultures. When it comes to creating an inclusive environment, the teacher must make sure she makes the environment of the class comfortable for students to be themselves. Teachers should make sure that classroom posters, pictures, books, music, toys, dolls, and other materials are diverse in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, age, family situations, disabilities, and so on (“Understanding Prejudice”, 2002). In a classroom, a teacher should creative her

Prejudice is when we have a preconceived opinion about someone or a group of people that is formed without knowledge, or even a real understanding about them.

In this modern world, prejudice is still a universal problem we still have yet to overcome. Although it is true that our society is much less prejudiced than it was 40-50 years ago, we are still struggling to create racial harmony in a world that is so diverse in terms of racial group, sexual orientations, ethnicity, nationality, religions, and so on. I think the core of prejudice comes from stereotyping, which is the generalization of motives, characteristics, or behavior to an entire group of people. In the world where media propaganda is ubiquitous, often times most stereotypes are not formed on valid experiences, instead they are based on images publicized by the mass media, or even created within our heads after seeing and hearing examples from many different sources, like movies, or even hearsay. Stereotyping is more powerful than we think, because it allows those false pictures to control our thinking that leads us to assign uniform characteristics to any person in a group, without consideration of the actual difference between members of that particular group.

Prejudice is a negative attitude toward people who belong to a specific social group. Prejudice has been around our world for many years and there continues to be prejudice. In the book of Psychology there are many groups of individuals who comes from different places of the world and when looking at one another features maybe different, but they are much more similar than different. That is because they could be in the same age group or have same interest. It is much more likely for people to get along better with the person who is of different skin color than people with same skin color. Through history, much of prejudice talk revolves around race and ethnicity. Now in today’s modern society, there is prejudice against sexual orientation,

Prejudice and ignorance are two of the most prominent ills of our society today. The way gay soldiers are treated today is no exception. Many have been forced to resign due to their sexual orientation, which has little or nothing to do with their ability as soldiers. Most members of our armed forces have no experience in relating to gay people, resulting in a fear that has caused pain to many people, both homosexual and heterosexual. In 2010, Obama put this country into place when he signed the, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act of 2010”. Even though this was signed, it is still a very heated debate within the government and this society. People should not have to worry about being gay when they sign up to protect their country. They also should not be judged on the basis of their sexuality.

Prejudice, in many forms, is defined as a preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or an actual experience. This prejudgement is often a negative attitude towards members of a group and can lead to intolerance of certain groups of people based on characteristics like race, color, gender, class, ability, weight, or country of origin. Despite some progress that our society has made to counter prejudice, prejudice and discrimination have been present throughout our history, due mostly to fear and oversimplified beliefs about other cultures and people that we don’t understand or typically know nothing about.

Prejudice is something that occurs worldwide. There are two forms of prejudice that the average individual has exposure to daily. These two forms of prejudice are unconscious and conscious prejudice.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, an award winning Nigerian writer, once said, “The problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story, become the only story.” This shows that some fixed ideas of people also known as stereotypes, may not be lying, but that doesn’t mean that they don’t contribute in why people are changing the way they live their lives. These stereotypes, along with prejudice, preconceived opinion’s are ruining the people in our communities and countries all around the world, something needs to be done about it. Negative stereotypes and prejudice shape one's identity.

A dominant theory in modern psychology is the idea of two modes of thinking, conscious and unconscious. Conscious processes are explicit and controlled, whereas unconscious processes are automatic and implicit. What most people think of prejudice is usually the conscious process of taking action to dehumanize and outright keep them separate from the rest of society. However, these days prejudice and bigotry have taken on a more subtle form to fit to today’s standards of behavior. Current discussion on racism in the United States delves into implicit thought to understand prejudice as it exists today and how to lessen prejudicial attitudes in our society. This is a step in the right direction, but we need to keep in mind not to mistake prejudice

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Prejudice means prejudgement. It is a psychologically and sociologically unjustifiable, usually negative attitude towards a group and its members, and is based off of the physical characteristics of an individual rather than what a person actually believes or does. These prejudices turn into discrimination when the beliefs against a certain group are acted upon. Types of prejudice found in modern society include those related to sex, gender, race, nationality, ethnicity, class, religion, disability and language (McLeod, 2008). Racism is prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior(Oxford Dictionary, 2016).

People often try to explain situations by placing the blame on something because it helps them understand the problem so that they may access it. It’s all about perception and the ways people view and understand a matter or problem. Racism appears when people place the blame from events on a certain race. This blame or perception can lead to feeling threatened by another race. Eric Mania says that “Threat can result from conflicts over tangible resources(e.g., jobs) or form perceived differences in values, such as a perception among some whites that blacks violate the American value of having a strong work ethic”(n pag). A certain discomfort is built up overtime which can lead to some sort of action as a result of the threat felt. After a while

One of the major theories for reducing prejudice and conflict is that groups who are in conflict should

Prejudice is a having a negative view or sentiment towards a person or group of people. It is usually formed without enough knowledge, and is based on negative stereotypes about a certain group of people. Unfortunately, it often leads to discrimination and sometimes death. People often show prejudice to others by oppressing their rights. A few examples of prejudice are women not being allowed to vote, being denied education, and not being able to drive.

Social conformity can be toxic, it often leads to the epidemic that is prejudice. To give a better idea of what prejudice means, Judice translates to judge in Latin, therefore the term “prejudice” literally translates into “pre-judgment”. There are innumerable forms of negative preconceived notions that exist in our world today, the biggest one being racism, which often is a stem of having anti-immigration views. Immigration prejudice is not unknown to any person who lives in America and has eyes and ears to know it exists, but it’s important to know that prejudice is not innate, it is learned, and as long as we allow our society to practice xenophobia among present and future generations we will never be free of it.