Essay On Racial Prejudice
Racial Prejudice develops either through the actions and thoughts of parents, media, or one’s self-awareness. Usually, a person retains their bias against a certain race unless an individual or a group can break the conceptual mold.
Developing Racial Prejudice
Children at an early age search for information about things. They ponder and ask questions of parents, family members, and teachers concerning things that are different than them. One example is color. When a young child sees someone who has a different skin color, they might ask “Mom, why is he lighter or darker than me in the face?”. Depending how open-minded the parent is he or she might say because they were born that way or they have more of a suntan or they are of a different …show more content…
That is due to our stubbornness because someone or a group does something we perceive as wrong or receives benefits that we wish we could acquire or possess.
Retaining Racial Prejudice
Ignorance, fear of loss of power, and media are factors that allow prejudice to persist in a person’s latter years. This might be due to what we see or perceive from media. This lies with the deeper root of hate that a person could take our place.
According to Rosado (n.d.), most Whites are very ignorant of how the African-American or Latino communities due to segregation (para 2). I feel this is true, but a lot of it has to do with the fact that a person feels that the other culture is inferior. Some Whites believe that we were the true First Americans, even though that concept belongs to the Native Americans. Whites originally brought the Africans over as slaves and feel that they should be held down from achieving high ranking positions. A lot of Whites believe and some of it is true that most Latinos came to the United States illegally, plus they have accounted for “54% of the population growth in the United States between 2000 and 2014” (Stepler & Lopez, 2016, para. 13). This leads to fears and continue prejudice in the White
Developing Racial Prejudice
Children at an early age search for information about things. They ponder and ask questions of parents, family members, and teachers concerning things that are different than them. One example is color. When a young child sees someone who has a different skin color, they might ask “Mom, why is he lighter or darker than me in the face?”. Depending how open-minded the parent is he or she might say because they were born that way or they have more of a suntan or they are of a different …show more content…
That is due to our stubbornness because someone or a group does something we perceive as wrong or receives benefits that we wish we could acquire or possess.
Retaining Racial Prejudice
Ignorance, fear of loss of power, and media are factors that allow prejudice to persist in a person’s latter years. This might be due to what we see or perceive from media. This lies with the deeper root of hate that a person could take our place.
According to Rosado (n.d.), most Whites are very ignorant of how the African-American or Latino communities due to segregation (para 2). I feel this is true, but a lot of it has to do with the fact that a person feels that the other culture is inferior. Some Whites believe that we were the true First Americans, even though that concept belongs to the Native Americans. Whites originally brought the Africans over as slaves and feel that they should be held down from achieving high ranking positions. A lot of Whites believe and some of it is true that most Latinos came to the United States illegally, plus they have accounted for “54% of the population growth in the United States between 2000 and 2014” (Stepler & Lopez, 2016, para. 13). This leads to fears and continue prejudice in the White