Thursday, May 1, 2008

2. What is prejudice? Where in the world have you seen prejudice? What are the effects of prejudice?

Prejudice is basically when a person or a group of people has unfavorable or unreasonable opinions, feelings, or attitudes towards another group of people regarding racial, religious, national, or other reasons. These opinions, feelings, or attitudes are usually formed without knowledge, thought, or reason of the other group and they often end in damage or injury towards the other group. I have seen prejudice in the world throughout past wars where countries will have prejudice towards other countries and go to war with them. Other areas where prejudice has occurred are in the States where there is sometimes prejudice towards African-Americans or people of different races. Prejudice that has occurred in my home country, Canada, is when people have prejudice towards First Nations peoples. The area of prejudice which relates to the novel study that we're doing of Anne Frank is during the Holocaust when the Germans had prejudice towards other groups such as Jews, Jehovah witnesses, gypsies, people with physical/mental disabilities, and others. Some effects of prejudice are violence, discrimination, human-rights violations, influence over other people's opinions, injuries, death, and much more. These effects are seen in many areas such as the situations that I previously mentioned.

1 comment:

Caleb J. said...

That is a good (almost dictionary like) description of what prejudice is. I also think that prejudice vs African Americans has died down. A lot of it is becasue most athletes are African Americans. I mean, name 20 good player on any American sports team that are good, and not non-caucasian.