Prejudice example sentences

Scapegoating is a groupbased way of expressing frustration, and it often results in negative attitudes or prejudice against the weaker group.People who learn prejudiced attitudes may develop a 'prejudiced personality', and show low adjusting capacity, anxiety, and feelings of hostility against the outgroup.In the days when Americans were said to be prejudiced against the Chinese, Richard LaPiere, an American social psychologist, conducted the following study.Prejudice may also get translated into discrimination, the behavioural component, whereby people behave in a less positive way towards a particular target group compared to another group which they favour.The first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice states: 'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.People with strong prejudices are less prone to any attitude change than those who do not hold strong prejudices.This was one of the worst instances of killings based on ethnic prejudices in recent times.Often it is observed that members of a majority group in society may be prejudiced (Chapter 6) against members of a minority group, and may show aggressive behaviour towards a minority group member, such as using abusive language, or even physically assaulting the minority group member.In this way, they strengthen the existing prejudice.It was mentioned earlier that stereotypes provide fertile ground for the growth of prejudices and biases against specific groups.Prejudices can exist without being shown in the form of discrimination.Communal prejudices and propaganda needs to be countered in every day life and religion based mobilisation needs to be countered in the arena of politics.Ambedkar led three such movements for temple entry between 1927 and 193 His aim was to make everyone see the power of caste prejudices within society.The target group may behave in ways that justify the prejudice, that is, confirm the negative expectations.The family, reference groups, personal experiences and the media may play a role in the learning of prejudices (see section on 'Attitude Formation and Change').