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...

“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...

Who knew that wearing a flashy suit was capable of completely change one’s cultural identity? Zoot Suit is a play written by Luis Valdez that demonstrates the Trial of the Sleepy Lagoon Case of 1942 in which the courts charged a group of “Pachucos” with...

It is said that “Prejudice is a learned trait, you’re not born prejudiced; you’re taught it.” Within Shakespeare’s ‘Merchant of Venice’ and past society, religious prejudice and prejudice based on ethnicity were social beliefs and people were consciously making these choices to be discriminatory. People...

Inequality is a theme that is continuously occurring in The Merchant of Venice, a play written by William Shakespeare in the 16th century, which portrays racism and prejudice that till this day, remains an important symbol of unequal opportunities and discrimination against a certain group...

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...

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...

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 days beginning June 3rd up to June 8th of 1943, a series of conflict took place in Los Angeles, California in which was eventually called “The Zoot Suit Riots”. It was a culmination of cultural differences between Mexican-Americans who have been living in the...

The ‘Merchant of Venice’ is filled with racial and religious issues that appear possible from almost all characters. These contrasting actions are displayed by many people throughout the Merchant of Venice text, and can easily relate to the actions and motives of people in this...

When coming across the term Ethnocentrism, we tend to not fully understand what it means. Ethnocentrism is when you or another individual judge another person’s culture by the values and standards of that person’s culture, these individuals are known as ethnocentric individuals. In today’s world...

In the movie The Blind Side by John Lee Hancock, the true story of Michael Oher and his interesting path to NFL stardom help shine light on many topics related to educational psychology. Michael is a 17-year-old African American boy, who comes from a broken...

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...

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...

Ever since the terrorist attacks on 9/11 there has been a growing prejudice in the United States of America. This prejudice is against those who look, act, or claim to be Muslim. This prejudice has led to many hate crimes taking place. These attacks are...

Online racism or cyber racism is most commonly defined as racism which occurs in the cyber world. This includes racism which occurs on the internet such as racist websites, images, blogs, videos and online comments as well as racist comments, images or language in text...

In this essay I will analyze the July 2009 TED talk “The Danger of a Single Story” by the novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, which expresses the idea of how people should not perceive something by only taking a single perspective to form a conclusion, because...

People imprisoned in a cave are not willing to seek the light because they are fearful of the unknown truth of what is outside. They wish to remain in the cave and its darkness that they know. However, is what they know, the truth? Their...

Racism is one of the most persistent and discussed problems in the world, particularly in the United States. As an underlying issue of many unjust acts, such as group hatred, racial prejudice tends to be a result of social ignorance and fear of privilege loss....

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...

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...

My findings show that the old “White Australia Policy” way of thinking is still prevalent in the Melbourne community and that there is a lot of prejudice based on the appearance and accents of an Asian individual: most notably, the level of competency of the...

Abstract Prejudice and racism are used interchangeably, but have totally independent meanings. Prejudice was the preconceived idea that is grounded on observations of facts or experience. Cultural racism was defined as the belief of the superiority of Europeans. Racism has been explained through evolution by...

How can two old dogs learn a new trick and overcome the deeply rooted seed of ethnic prejudice? In the movie Driving Miss Daisy, Daisy Werthan (played by Jessica Tandy) and Hoke Colburn (played by Morgan Freeman) uproot their assumptions through a friendship that develops...

As a story based on The Great Depression, the time period shapes many aspects of life that contrast widely to that of today’s society. The 1930’s in the south was an era of inequality in many ways. Although many years after the abolition of slavery...