...Appendix B Part I Define the following terms: Term Definition Stereotypes Unreliable, exaggerated generalizations about all members of a group that do not take individual differences into account. Prejudice A negative attitude toward an entire category of people, such as a racial or ethnic minority. Labeling theory A social theory that holds that society's reaction to certain behaviors is a major factor in defining the self as deviant. People become `deviant' because certain labels (thief, prostitute, homosexual) are attached to their behavior by criminal justice authorities and others. The resulting treatment of the individual pushes them into performing the deviant role. Also called "societal reaction" theory. Part II Select three of the identity categories below and name or describe at least 3 related stereotypes for each: Race Ethnicity Religion Gender Sexual orientation Age Disability Category Stereotype 1 Stereotype 2 Stereotype 3 Race- The Chinese Chinese people are quiet Chinese people are the most polite Chinese women are submissive Disability- Mentally ill They are helpless and to be pitied They are thought to be sociopaths and murderers They are thought to be “freaks of nature” Sexual Orientation- Bi-sexuals They are thought to be highly sexual, enjoying more tan one partner at a time They are considered indecisive They are thought to spread sexual diseases Part III Answer each question in 100 to 150...
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...how prejudices impact our daily lives our group decided on an experiment that shows stereotypes are real. Stereotypes are formed so that we are able to respond rapidly to situations because we may have had a similar experience before. The disadvantage of this is that it makes us ignore differences between individuals. Therefore, when we experience something bad, we assume that everyone of that ethnicity is the same. Our experiment consisted of ten pictures of random people followed by four questions: what job do you think this person has, would you want to work for this person, what type of family members does this person have (kids, wife, husband, parents), and what is this person’s favorite food. This experiment was totally...
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...PREJUDICE AGAINST INDIAN MEN FROM INDIA PREJUDICE ESSAY Communication Across Cultures Lecturer: Ms. Gandhi Divina Daryanani JCU ID: 13261749 New Class 01 1 PREJUDICE AGAINST INDIAN MEN FROM INDIA 2 Everyone has a different idea on what the actual meaning of prejudice is. When they hear the word prejudice, they might think that we’re only talking about people’s skin colour or their race, whereas, it actually talks about many other things than just their skin colour or race. Prejudice generally describes one’s negative or unfair feeling towards gender, ethnicity, religion, culture, geographical background and many more. I recently discovered that I am, as a matter of fact, strongly prejudiced against indian people from India, focusing more on the men from India. Not the multicultural Indian men who live overseas, just the ones born and brought up in India. There are a few reasons that explains why I’m prejudice against them. The reasons are as follows: it is because of their unendurable odor, their menacing stares, unjustifiable actions against women, their unhygienic way of living and their unfathomable way of bad-mouthing anything and everything. It took one trip which consisted of 15 days to confirm my prejudice against them. It is unrealistic to not keep one’s self clean when it is of complete necessity to interact with other people on a daily basis. People around may think...
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...Associate Program Material Stereotypes and Prejudice Worksheet Please complete the following exercises, remembering that you are in an academic setting and should remain unbiased, considerate, and professional when completing this worksheet. Part I Select three of the identity categories below and name or describe at least 3 related stereotypes for each: • Race • Ethnicity • Religion • Gender • Sexual orientation • Age • Disability |Category |Stereotype 1 |Stereotype 2 |Stereotype 3 | |Race |All Mexicans are illegal. |All Asains are bad drivers. |Blacks are good at all sports. | |Gender |Women are bad drivers |Men are dirty. |A woman can’t work the same jobs | | | | |as a man. | |Disability |Disabled people are sick. |Someone with a disability should |Disabled people will not have a | | | |be treated special. |fulfilled life. | Part II Answer each question in 50 to 100 words related to those stereotypes. Provide citations for all the sources you use. ...
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...is true for slavery, this prejudice is unnatural, human beings aren't born to be owned or to be used as free labor. I believe that prejudice supports the practice of slavery In the attribution error the slave owners developed attitudes that would justified slavery in their minds, they perceived the people they enslaved as lazy, ignorant, and irresponsible. In the movie 12 Years a Slave, the stereotypes were seen thru out the movie, so much so that even upon Solomons freedom people would not believe he could be a free man solely because of the color of his skin. I dont know if I have more empathy for Solomon as a freed African American or for the Africans who were still enslaved. I started thinking am I a bad person because I valued one person's pain over another even though they were both thrown into the very same physical and emotional situation of slavery? I am not saying that each was displayed as two different kinds of people but the film did differentiate two very different ways of thinking. Solomon Northup’s story is cruel and inhuman but what's fascinating about the story is how it looks at prejudice, slavery, social structures and moral issues with the white and black cultures. Moments into the film the conversation between Solomon and Eliza forced me to not only view the past from a different angle, but to rethink where we as human stand on this subject today. How often are we like Solomon and convinced that things aren’t that bad like Eliza in the film, we...
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...Everyone has flaws. Impatient. Stubborn. Perfectionist. Pessimistic. Dubious. Fixation. Everyone experiences the flaw of prejudice. It is one problem that has never be solved, and it is still a problem today. Prejudice is a preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience. Prejudice still exists among us just like it did in the 1950’s. There have been many events where prejudice had an influence on common society and one of those events was the police brutality incidents that happened just a couple of months ago. Many individuals today are blind to prejudice, and it can happen if someone does it to them or they do it to themselves. Individuals in the past were blind to prejudice as well. The holocaust is one example. Bad...
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...Program Material Stereotypes and Prejudice Worksheet Please complete the following exercises, remembering that you are in an academic setting and should remain unbiased, considerate, and professional when completing this worksheet. Part I Select three of the identity categories below and name or describe at least 3 related stereotypes for each: • Race • Ethnicity • Religion • Gender • Sexual orientation • Age • Disability |Category |Stereotype 1 |Stereotype 2 |Stereotype 3 | |Race |Asians are all smart. |White people are not good at |Asians can not drive. | | | |sports. | | |Gender |Women need to cook and clean. |Men are better drivers. |Women are smarter then men. | |Age |Old people are deaf/blind. |Young people are ungrateful. |Old people are bad drivers. | Part II Answer each question in 50 to 100 words related to those stereotypes. Provide citations for all the sources you use. What are the positive aspects of stereotypes, if any? When we hear the word stereotype, we automatically think of the bad. However, there is a positive...
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...Prejudice is the attitude or prejudging, usually in a negative way. This word has commonly been used in certain restricted contexts, particularly in the expression 'racial prejudice’. Usually it is referred to as making a judgment about a person based on their race, before receiving information about the particular issue that the person is being judged for. This word is also used to refer to any hostile attitude towards people based on their race. Consequently the word has come to be widely so interpreted in this way in contexts other than those relating to race. There are many forms of prejudice that are used with many cultures throughout the world today. One of the forms is called discrimination. Discrimination is the action that someone portrays when they are prejudice it is also an act of unfair treatment directed against an individual or group of people because one feels superior to the other. An example of prejudice discrimination was during the Holocaust of the Second World War. The holocaust was started when the Nazi group thought their race was a dominant group to all other races and culture. They killed millions of Jews and various others showing their prejudice discrimination towards all other culture. Other examples of prejudice groups that are in America today are the Ku Klux Klan, gangs such as the Hispanic MS13, and the black gang such as the Bloods. All of these prejudice groups believe that they can discriminate to any of the cultures that are set apart from...
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... |The act of denying individuals and groups equal rights and opportunities based on prejudices| | |of race, gender or creed. | |Institutional discrimination |The denial of employment, housing and education to individuals or groups based on race and | | |ethnicity. | |Political correctness |A term that expresses the need to minimize social and institutional discrimination based on | | |race, culture, sexual orientation and religion. | Part II Write a 150- to 250-word response to each of the following questions: • How is discrimination different from prejudice and stereotyping? Prejudice is an unjustified or negative opinion toward an individual based on their involvement in a social group and can be based on a certain race or gender. Stereotyping is a popular belief about certain groups or individuals based on race, gender or religion. The act of discriminating differs from prejudice and stereotyping because it is the act or behavior against specific individuals or groups of people, where prejudice and stereotyping are not actions, but negative opinions or beliefs about a specific individual or group. ...
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...“It's very hard to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this. And no matter where you run into it, prejudice obscures the truth.' “Tjhis phrase sums up the basis of Twelve Angry Men' by Reginald Rose. This play is about a young delinquent on trial for the murder of his abusive father. The jury must find him guilty if there is no reasonable doubt, and in turn, sentence him to death. “I don't envy your job. You are faced with a grave responsibility.” People's bias and predispositions can affect their opinion of different circumstances and different people. This is very evident throughout the play. After the first group vote and juror 8 votes not guilty, a discussion ensues. It is there that the jurors' personal prejudices come out and we the readers/viewers are able to see how this has influenced and shaped what they think. There are many significant views and values that Reginald Rose demonstrates in 12 Angry Men the most important one being that prejudice constantly affects the truth and peoples judgement. As the jurors argue between themselves as to whether a young boy is guilty of stabbing his father it is shown that “It’s very hard to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this.” This is most evident in the way juror #3 and juror #10 come to their decision that the young man is guilty as they bring in there prejudice against young people and people from the slums to make their judgement without considering the facts of the case. Rose uses juror #8 who can see...
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...through the people around her. Scout Finch matures and changes her perspective on people, prejudices, and Boo Radley. People can have many different sides and opinions that can change and show at only certain times. While in the process of growing up and maturing, Scout realizes and experiences this in many people, specifically her aunt, her father, and Calpurnia. One thing that Scout...
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...Today, I just have a lecture about behavior in social and culture context, there are two parts in the lesson impress me. They are the case of the suicide bomber and the concept of prejudice. Firstly, the story of the suicide bomber makes me think about the frauds in the recently years. Although there is news report reminding people not to fall in the trap, the numbers of frauds still increase in every year. In the past, I always wondering why the victims are so stupid, they already have the idea of how the frauds were happened but still being cheated. However, I know that’s not their fault after the lesson. Just taking an example of a body-fit Centre, in order to let people fall in the trap, the Centre will firstly promote their company by offering an extreme low price treatment to the customers who had never try the services before. As the customer think that they just have to spend a very little price to become slim, they go to the company to have a try. In the treatment, the staff would persuade the customer that it is very important for women to keep fit and become slim. For example, by telling them they will get better offer and paid if they are fit, they may become popular among men if they have a perfect body shape and etc… the staff just conclude the view of the society in one simple attribution—as a woman, you should be slim, and make the customer strongly believe on it. Afterword, the customer would told that they can reach that attribution if they finish a course...
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...text is about the book Deadly Unna and how it shows racial prejudice. This book clearly without a doubt shows racial prejudice with events and terms that have been mention by the author throughout this book. This text will convince you to have a strong mindset on how the author is trying to show that their is is racial prejudice in Australia. For example Dumby didn't win the trophy and was especially racist to him and how their was favouritism towards Coach Arks son from the committee of the club and the coach who was Arks. Blacky removing the Graffiti was an example for standing up for Racism from the so called Porky Fraser which is very disrespectful as the author explains it well. Then Lastly Darcy was making up rude comments about the Nungas and how they carry a some sort of disease but it wasn't just Darcy who did this it was a lot of people nearly everyone made at least a rude joke or comment just because of...
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...University of Phoenix Material Appendix B Part I Define the following terms: |Term |Definition | |Stereotypes |Stereotypes are unreliable generalizations about all | | |Members of a group that do not take individual differences into account. Numerous | | |scientific studies have been made of these exaggerated images | |Prejudice |a negative attitude toward an entire | | |category of people, such as a racial or | | |ethnic minority | |Labeling theory |a sociological approach introduced | | |by Howard Becker that attempts to | | |explain why certain people are viewed | | |as deviants and others engaging in the ...
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...1. What is discrimination? How is discrimination different from prejudice and stereotyping? * Discrimination is referred to as an unfair treatment which occurs in a different categories of things or people. Discrimination frequently show an occurrence in a person race, the age of a person, and the sex of a person. Discrimination differs from prejudice because prejudice is an opinion by a person or an organization that is not based on things that actually happen. With prejudice people are going by what they assume. In other words prejudice is a pointless opinion. Stereotyping differs from discrimination because stereotyping is when someone believes something that is based on the opinion of a person or a group of people. * 2. What are the causes of discrimination? * According to extensive research there are many different causes of discrimination. Some of the major causes of discrimination includes Ignorance, fear and stereotyping. Ignorance is the lack of information and or knowledge. Fear is a person emotion that is usually caused by the beliefs of a person. Fear occurs in a dangerous situation that is likely to cause a person hurt or pain. Stereotyping as discuss in question number one is when someone refers to or believes that something is based on the opinion of a person in particular or a group of people within a space or an organization. * 3. How discrimination is faced by one identity group (race, ethnicity, religious belief, gender, sexual orientation...
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