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    yourself what’s a genocide? Well then don’t worry‚ a genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people‚ especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation according to google. The genocide that i got was the genocide of Rwanda. This genocide took place in Rwanda between April 7-July 15 in

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    PATRONAGE AND CLIENTSHIP IN RWANDA INTRODUCTION Patronage: The process of appointing persons to government positions on the basis of political support and work rather than on merit. It is also called the ‘spoils system’. Clientship: The state of being under the protection of a man of wealth and influence (patron) and a client. The genocide which took place in Rwanda and which‚ according to most estimates‚ has claimed the lives of about a million people in the most atrocious ways imaginable while

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    Hotel Rwanda why didn’t the US or Europe intervene to stop this genocide? The major sociological issue in this movie was the continued genocide of the Tutsis by Hutu militia groups. On April 6‚ 1994‚ the Rwandan president‚ a Hutu‚ was killed when his plane was shot down over Kigali airport.  Hutu politicians blamed Tutsis for the president’s death and within hours‚ loosely organized Hutu militia groups known collectively as the Interhamwe began mobilizing across Rwanda. In a preplanned campaign

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    Prejudice is an attitude (usually negative) toward the member of some group solely on their membership in that group.   Prejudice can also bee seen as part of the general process of ethnocentrism.   Discrimination can be seen as the behavioural expression of prejudice. Psychological theories which attempt to explain the origins of prejudice fall into two major categories. Personality theories‚ which see the source of prejudice as being in the individual and social psychological theories‚ which

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    when we have been treated unfairly. Discrimination because of prejudice and stereotyping is one of the main problems that we must face in an ethnically and culture diverse world. Considering these beliefs and the means behind these actions may essentially help us be a step closer to resolving this social injustice. “Prejudice involves a negative attitude toward individuals based on their membership in a particular group”‚ (Feenstra‚ J. (2011). Prejudice takes place when a person has negative

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    Discrimination Discrimination‚ nowadays it is a word which common meaning is "the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people‚ especially on the grounds of race‚ age‚ or sex".1 However this word has a couple more meanings than the one mentioned at the beginning of this essay. I think that the proper formal meaning of this word is to recognize the differences between two or more things. I believe that this definition is the essential one for discrimination taking in account

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    What were the causes and consequences of the Rwandan genocide? The causes of the Rwandan genocide were deeply seeded to the collapse and struggle for dominance within a previously established hierarchy. The roots of ethnic conflicts often find themselves tied to arbitrary guidelines of division between groups. It is this segregation that leads to a fight for power when a hierarchy becomes destabilized. This is exactly the case with the Rwandan genocide of 1994: the intervention of Belgian colonialism

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    2012 PSY-102 Prejudice and Discrimination Stereotyping‚ prejudice‚ and discrimination are a part of everyday lives. A set of generalized beliefs and expectations about a specific group and its members is known as stereotyping. Stereotyping can often times lead to prejudice‚ a negative‚ or positive‚ evaluation of a group and its members. Common stereotypes and forms of prejudice involve racial‚ religious‚ and ethnic groups. Acting on these negative stereotypes results in discrimination which is a behavior

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    World Religions teach people to respect others‚ their culture and their beliefs‚ however we still see discrimination. In my opinion‚ this is because not all religions teach to respect others outside of the said religion. What we don’t know or understand we tend to judge. For example‚ when we see someone wearing a Chador we immediately jump to the conclusion that what there wearing is weird or stupid when we may not actually know the meaning behind what they are wearing or why they are wearing it

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