Thursday, January 13, 2011

Prejudice - KWL

Know
Prejudice is judging someone without a logical reasoning, and this phenomenon has existed for a very long time. Prejudice can cause undesirable results as some people are not given the chances they deserve. Prejudice can come in many forms, against people of some skin colour, gender, age, nationality and many other examples.

Want
I would want to know about other forms of prejudice, so that I can better understand prejudice itself. I would also like to understand what prejudice exactly means. I would also like to know about why people have prejudice over others and form stereotypes about certain groups of people.

Learn
Prejudice is the prejudgement before establishment of facts, understanding of situation and/or knowledge of the person.

Some Generalisations of Prejudice (Came up together with my Group):
1. There is always one or more perpetrator and victim in every case of prejudice.
2. Prejudice is caused because of some sort of differences from person to person, be it ethnic race, skin colour, religion or gender.
3. Prejudice occurs everywhere.
4. Prejudice is adopting an unfair judgement of one or more persons.
5. Prejudice is abstract, unless being acted out in the form of discrimination.
6. Prejudice is detrimental. Genocides (large-scale massacre of a whole race) and lynching (torture of a whole race) are the worst consequences, whilst the least serious consequences are being aloof to a party (ignoring).
7. Prejudice cannot be fully eradicated; it will always exist.

2 comments:

  1. Hehe, for your what you want to know part, you almost wanted to know the exact same things as me! xD

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  2. Really...hehe...great minds think alike :P
    and we aunt and nephew very boomz ya :D

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