Sunday, January 23, 2011

What I have learned about prejudice

Prejudice is a internal feeling where you pre-judge someone based on appearances or first experiences, etc which is an opinion of them. While discrimination is the acting out of prejudice which is because of reasons like sexism, ageism and racism. Because of these reasons, people commit crimes from mild cases like taunting to severe cases like genocides. Prejudice creates stereotypes which leads to discrimination of them and leads to more prejudice to the person who discriminates and prejudice leads to more prejudice as people might follow the one who started it. However, stereotypes may not be all negative.

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