Class Blogging Topic: Prejudice

What are some acts of prejudice you know of of?

Firstly, we must understand what prejudice means exactly: it is an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand without thought, reason or knowledge.

Acts of prejudice:

1. Biased

2. Racism

3.Discrimination

4. Stereotyping

5.banning asians from European bars

Teacher's examples:

Avoiding people who are too fat/too thin

Differneces in social backgrounds

Jews during WWII

Age

Religion/Backaground

Looking down on odd job workers

Not seeking western medicine

Malaysian chinese scholars

Not allowing girls to go to school

not listening to children

Weaker children always picked on in school

xenophobia

Meanings:

Prejudiced: Preconceived notion of somebody to judge them usually negatively

Stereotype: Using simplistic way to decide the trait to an entire group

Bias: Tendency to support or oppose a group of people

Discrimination: The act of doing something(could be negative/positive) against people you are biased towards

Stereotype leads to: Bias(support/oppose) leads to: Prejudice leads to: Discrimination

Eg. Negro stereotypes: are poor/low education/criminal behaviour/all bad