Essays on Prejudice

Prejudice is pre-judgment or irrational generalisation about an entire category of people. It is a combination of personal, social and societal factors. It is the human tendency to divide the social world into two categories of “us” and “them” the in-group and the out-group. These...

While many of us may like to believe that our society today as we know it has advanced in many ways beyond the thoughts and beliefs of the colonial era and the time of slavery, this is unfortunately not the case. In many ways, public...

Prejudice is “an attitude towards a particular group or member of a group, based on characteristics which are assumed to be common to all members of the group.” (Psychology First, 2006: 97) There are different theories as to how prejudice develops in individuals and groups....

There are many ways one could define Prejudice, but according to Immigrant Works and Class Structure in Western Europe by Stephen Castles and Godula Kosack, prejudice is “an attitude towards an outgroup of people” (Castles and Kosack 446). Prejudice was also said to be a...

“Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome” (Rosa Parks). Prejudice will always remain in society, and it sure does in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird...

How would you feel if a loved one was convicted of a crime based on evidence that did not add up or make any sense? This nightmare became a reality for a family who had their son taken from their arms in the blink of...

In February 2015, 17-year-old Hajrah Arshad delivered a passionate speech when she tried to remove prejudice. In the congregation there were people with Muslim backgrounds as well as people with other religions. The speech was held outside the synagogue at the “Peace Ring” assembly in...

In the article, “Our Language Prejudices Don’t Make No Sense,” Raffaella Zanuttini criticizes the people that express anger when they hear others use double negatives in a sentence. She criticizes the proponents of civilization that fail to criminalize the expressions of prejudice against people that...

Jesus does not completely prohibit us to have an opinion about other people but ultimately God alone is the absolute judge. In this passage Jesus is referring to certain hypocritical circumstances, in which we should not judge or blame others because we do not know...

The title of this article makes it obvious that Gary Younge, the writer, is quick to appear and demonstrate that racism is far more profound than more established men who convey the perspectives as they have fifty years beforehand when their perspectives were seen as...

Are fast food companies the only reason for America being the fattest nation in the world? This question is challenged in the documentary ‘Supersize Me’ (2004). Director Morgan Spurlock attempts a social experiment to prove that fast food companies, especially McDonald, has a drastic effect...

Introduction What does prejudice, police brutality, and racism actually mean, and how do we ignore it? This is a question that everybody has their own answer to, but does that change the meaning? Many organizations have organized protests, for example, Black Lives Matter. Others have...

Imagined contact has been shown to be an effective method of prejudice reduction when no other option is available. Crips, Turner, and Lambert (2007) previously studied the effects of imagined contact with outgroup members on prejudice towards that outgroup. This study replicates that of Crisp...

What is the Regency Period? Who is in power in England? The Regency period was period of time in England, 1811-1820, when King George III was declared unfit to rule due to a health disorder, and his son, George Augustus Frederick, began his reign as...

On April 4, 1968 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr was assassinated and many people were shocked because of this. “A Class Divided” which is a video tells as what happened on the day after this sad day. Because of this, the third graders’ students who...

In A Class Divided experiment Jane Elliott chose to show her class a challenging exercise in the importance of segregation. She needed to demonstrate her understudies what segregation feels like, and what it can do to individuals. What’s more, to exhibit to the youngsters how...

I always thought that because I am born and raised in a Vietnamese household, I already have a firm grasp on the concept of overcoming ethnocentric biases and be unprejudiced and/or more understanding when it comes to other religious and cultural practices. However, that is...

On April 11, 2016, Mark Meechan, or a youtuber better known by the name Count Dankula had uploaded a video of him telling his dog to raise his paw in a salute whenever he blurted “Gas the Jews”. A couple of months later, on July...

It can be argued that there are many significant causes to the rise in hate crimes when examining the way the perpetrators feel threatened, and as a result, it has an everlasting result in the future. Hate crimes are when an individual commits a violent...