I agree with this statement “Prejudice is a disease we can never get rid of”. Prejudice is an adverse judgment or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge or examination of the facts. The reason for prejudice is the fact that human is generally more suspicious and biased against others who are not like themselves in significant ways. You may have heard others saying “Jews are …”, “All black people…”, “Gays always…” “Poor people are…”This forms of prejudice give rise to discrimination against other races, religions, sexes and even against people of different age groups. It is impossible to totally remove prejudice as the society has been creating and perpetuating unfavorable stereotypes which are passed down through many generations, which is to say, prejudice simply exists too widely in the world.
A form of prejudice is racism. Nowadays, racism still thrives almost everywhere. Countries such as USA, Europe, and Australia have recognized the harm of racial prejudice and have tried to stop it but to no avail. In USA, there is widespread racism among the “whites” and the” blacks”. For example, most people in the US perceive that crimes are generally committed by blacks against the whites, as media often portrays African American as the” bad guys” in shows and depicted them as violent. But, in truth, 97% of crimes are committed intra-racially. The society, media and family has instilled these racist values in children since young, resulting in stereotyping. This prejudice can never be gotten rid of and will still remain very evident.
Prejudice may be reduced through some ways such as passing down of laws to stop racism, giving subtle education to prevent prejudice and more. However, it is hard to change the perspective and beliefs of people. No matter how hard the government and leaders of the world tries to combat prejudice, it will still remain all around us. So, I feel that it is impossible to remove prejudice completely from the world today.
posted by shermaine @ 4/27/2007 11:29:00 PM
2 Comments:
I agree with what you say on prejudice but I seriously don't think that by implementing laws, the problem of prejudice will be stopped. The problem with humans are that they are easily influence by one another's mindsets so when one starts to discrminate other races or religions, other will slowly begin to follow suit as well hence in order to solve the problem,individuals must first change their own mindsets..right now in the world,prejudice still exists just like the issue of Virginia Tech. If the shootings have been done by an American, I bet there wouln't be such a big commotion about the whole issue.
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Xiao Ping
hey shermaine,
i liked the fluency of your essay. It was a balanced essay overall. You covered on the government's efforts as well as the social situation that promotes prejudice. However, I also feel that you need to substantiate on the point that human beings are 'naturally more suspicious' about others.
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