Definition of Discrimination and Predujce
Discrimination and Prejudice
Discrimination is the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, usually on the basis of sex, race, age, religion or disability. Eg. Discrimination against homosexuals. Although, discrimination can also mean the recognition and understanding of the difference between one thing and another.
Prejudice is a preconceived opinion that is not based on knowledge, reason or actual experience. A racial prejudice is a negative attitude towards a group of people based on race. If you prejudice someone, you cause him or her to have a negative attitude towards someone else. Eg. Lawyers are not allowed to bring certain types of evidence such as rumors into a trial because it might prejudice the jury.
Discrimination and prejudice compliment each other in a way that is unfair to humanity, although there is one major difference between the two. Prejudice is not something we are born with, it is something we lean. From a young age we have been influence by others, parents, friends, teachers and the government. From this we develop individual opinions and ideas about people and things without any factual knowledge and experience, only from the rumors we over-hear. Discrimination only comes to play when we take our prejudice behavior out into the open, publicly acting with a different attitude towards people- displaying our private/individual opinions.
One major example of this was in the Second World War when the Nazi’s separated out the Jews from the citizens of Germany. The prejudice example of this was the Nazi’s opinions of the Jews, the vile opinions weren’t based on knowledge of the Jew’s beliefs or how they acted in life. They were in fact passed down by the sick-minded Hitler, who also spread many untrue rumors about them. The discrimination of this example took place when the Nazi’s took action and started to divide the Jews from the people of Germany, finally sending them to concentration camps
Discrimination is the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, usually on the basis of sex, race, age, religion or disability. Eg. Discrimination against homosexuals. Although, discrimination can also mean the recognition and understanding of the difference between one thing and another.
Prejudice is a preconceived opinion that is not based on knowledge, reason or actual experience. A racial prejudice is a negative attitude towards a group of people based on race. If you prejudice someone, you cause him or her to have a negative attitude towards someone else. Eg. Lawyers are not allowed to bring certain types of evidence such as rumors into a trial because it might prejudice the jury.
Discrimination and prejudice compliment each other in a way that is unfair to humanity, although there is one major difference between the two. Prejudice is not something we are born with, it is something we lean. From a young age we have been influence by others, parents, friends, teachers and the government. From this we develop individual opinions and ideas about people and things without any factual knowledge and experience, only from the rumors we over-hear. Discrimination only comes to play when we take our prejudice behavior out into the open, publicly acting with a different attitude towards people- displaying our private/individual opinions.
One major example of this was in the Second World War when the Nazi’s separated out the Jews from the citizens of Germany. The prejudice example of this was the Nazi’s opinions of the Jews, the vile opinions weren’t based on knowledge of the Jew’s beliefs or how they acted in life. They were in fact passed down by the sick-minded Hitler, who also spread many untrue rumors about them. The discrimination of this example took place when the Nazi’s took action and started to divide the Jews from the people of Germany, finally sending them to concentration camps