Prejudice, Stereotyping And Discrimination

We have all been unfairly judged in our time, and to be honest we all have done our fair share of uninformed judging too. Our prejudgements and judgments of one another affect our behaviours, actions and reactions. While some prejudgments are utterly harmless, other can be lethal; bias prejudgments based on incorrect stereotypes that led people to react with hatred and change their manners.

Humans are not angels, and yes that there are a lot of overtly bigoted people and policies in the world, yet is it possible that the prejudice some of those people act on is driven by something subtle than simple hatred? Why are we prejudice? Can prejudice be insidious and non-conscious? What is the difference between prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination? The difference between prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination
Prejudice, stereotypes and discrimination are genuinely intergroup phenomenon even thou they are expressed by
One of the most widely promulgated theories of prejudice is the authoritarian personality. Children who are brought up in families where their parents use harsh disciplinarian methods to secure love and dependence develop a hate-love relationship with their parents that are unendurably stressful. The stress is resolved by idealising their parents and all authority figures and redirecting their hatred onto weaker others.

A more recent explanation of prejudice, called social dominance theory, describes that people who desire their own group to be dominant and superior to out-groups have a highly social dominance orientation that encourages them to reject egalitarian ideologies and to accept myths that legitimise hierarchy and discrimination. These kinds of people are more inclined to be prejudiced than other people who have a low social dominance