Discrimination and prejudice
Prejudice is an attitude concerning the way people think about others. It comes from the Latin 'pre-judicare', or to pre-judge people. It means to hold an opinion about someone without having any evidence to justify it. Very often, there is evidence that a person's prejudice is wrong, but they ignore it. We often find prejudice and discrimination go hand in hand.People can become prejudiced for many reasons. Which include the influence of parents, because young children accept everything their parents say, including their prejudices. These prejudices are very often difficult to break down later in life. Prejudice often comes from ignorance. Someone can be prejudiced against, say, the Irish, because they know very little about them. Prejudice also comes from fear. Because someone is different in their language, behaviour, or customs, people are afraid of them. Prejudice also comes from pride, because people think that the groups they belong to are superior to others. Therefore, they will be prejudiced against these because they must be inferior. Discrimination is the acting out of prejudices, when people are treated unfairly because of a prejudice held against them.
-Employers deliberately avoiding hiring people from certain ethnic groups, because of personal feelings (direct racism) or feeling the person would not 'fit in' to the workplace because of the views of other employees (institutional racism).
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