Monday, April 28, 2008
Prejudice
Prejudice is an unfavorable opinion or feeling or attitude esp. unfriendly nature regarding a race or religious group. I have seen prejudice in the United States between colored people and white. I have also seen prejudice in Africa, Nigeria where Muslims and Christians fight for their religion. The effects of prejudice are that people start judging others by their appearance, their skin color and the way the talk. People might think you are good in volleyball when you hit it over the net, the judge you by what the see. I think that prejudice and racism are alike.
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David S. said...
I agree with your thought about prejudice. They are not fair opinions, they usually don't consider both sides but only focus on one aspect. Let's say for example, that there is a person who has prejudice against colored people, and the reason is because there has been some riots in the past caused by the African Americans. However, that is not a fair, considerate opinion. In fact, it is only an opinion based on the fact that there was a riot. However, there actually was more of the bad things the so called "white people" had done to the African Americans, and the African Americans actually had peaceful heroes as well, such as Martin Luther King. Thinking that colored people are inferior are even more unfair prejudice: who knows, in the past when colored couldn't send children to good schools, a genius boy may have had to stay in home. Ethnicity has nothing to do with the who is "superior" and who is "inferior." Not the ethnicity, but how the people build themselves are what matters. We should clear ourselves of prejudice, and in order to form a strong society, we must widen our views, seeing different people who all could do best in different areas.
By the way, if the term "colored" offend anyone, I'm sorry about the word choice. No hostile intentions.
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