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Racial Prejudice

What is prejudice?

- set of learned beliefs and values that lead a person to be biased against other members of other groups.
-prejudices are convenient(bequem,brauchbar,passend) and inaccurate.
----> people are not seen as individuals, biased people label other people
to special groups

-prejudice is mostly based on inaccurate information about people
Prejudice originates from three common parts(these parts make up a prejudiced belief):
1.Generalisations
-a very broad , simple statement about a group of people
-here is perhaps an appropriate
point to provide an example:"All catholics" or when the word "they" figures strongly
-key words for generalisations are "all" and "they"
--->generalisations are also very inaccurate
, because we are not justified in saying that all members of these group or race share the same characteristic features.
G. are unfair descriptions of people and they are mostly based on very incomplete information.
Having met......

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