... Prejudice" arises? Whenever we mentioned about the word prejudice, usually a classification of 2 distinct levels or standards of people are implied. Common prejudices involve races, poor, rich, professions, handicapped, religion believes, homosexuals, unequal between men and women, etc. There are so many kinds of prejudice that we can't mention all here. Prejudice can occur under any circumstances, providing there are people who ... , etc. Of course, sometimes a leader or housewife or teenager is somewhat like the stereotype but it is a gross injustice to automatically assume what they ar...

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... because they did not fit into one man's vision of a perfect world. Elie, from Night, experienced pain, starvation, loneliness, loss of faith, and injustice similar to millions of other people. People who were apart of the Holocaust, got a taste of what hell is like. It was one of the ... them the Holocaust was coming to Sighet, but nobody believed him. Consequently, Nazis raided Sighet like many other European cities. Jewish, handicapped, gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah witnesses, and many other people were forced to leave their homes and give up their possessions and move into ghettoes, fi...

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... same way we would categorize furniture as chairs, table, and couch. For example, Native-Americans are savages, alcoholics, mean, dirty and uneducated. Athletes are uneducated, conceited; get all the girls, unless they are girls? Then those girls are homosexuals." Blondes are dumb and airheads" "Smart people are nerds". "That ... with- out subjectively compromising one's own humanity and sense of loyalty. (A.J. Turk, 1981) Stereotyping also plays a role in social interaction. For instance, according Ashmore and McConahay (Jones, 1977), the belief that the poor are lazy and incompetent by...

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