General Prejudice

Paper Summary:

This paper discusses how racism and discrimination are common threads in prejudiced activity and they work to perpetuate the problems that some individuals have faced and are still facing in society today. Personal examples and views are also given by the author.

Outline:
Introduction -- Prejudice
Racial Discrimination
Class Discrimination
Gender Discrimination

From the Paper:

"The notion that we can identify individuals who are superior based on an agreed-upon classification is not new. This belief is called classism. For a long time, the color of a person's skin and other physical characteristics provided a means for easy classification. In early America, for example, black skin indicated that you were likely a slave, and thus automatically designated to a lower social and economic class than those with white skin. However, in actuality and in simple terms, there are only two classes: the oppressed and the oppressor, the powerful and the powerless, or the haves and the have-nots. This hierarchy of oppression is elastic, at times seeing the Irish, Jewish, homosexuals, and other minority groups as the oppressed, but it has historically been highly linked to race above any other classification. "

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