PREJUDICE

PREJUDICE

• Dictionary:
• preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience
• My words:
• A person making judgment on something or someone without knowing that
• person or without knowing about that topic.

EXAMPLES

• After blacks were freed from being slaves every one else was
• skeptical of blacks. There were certain restaurants they could go to,
• certain drinking fountains, different bathrooms, and different schools.

EXAMPLES

• Around the 1950s the baby boomer era women were viewed as
• baby makers and that's it. Women were raised to be housewives men
• didn't want the women to get jobs because it's a mans job to provide.
• In later years society thought women weren't smart enough to become scientist
• because women were raised to cook, clean, and make babies.

EXAMPLES

• In the world today the property rate is at 7.1% in the United States most
• of that population of people are blacks. Lots of employers don't hire
• blacks because they believe all blacks are criminals so that's part of the
• reason why so many black people are unemployed.

QUOTE

• "The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance
• things present and which mislead into error,not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers,
• but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice." Arthur Schopenhauer
• http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/arthurscho155456.html#vRhu4ghRiu...
• This tells how people have opinions about things they don't know. They use false info.

QUOTE

• "Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support."
• http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/ambrosebie399506.html#idfb0oxiZz...
• Ambrose Bierce
• How people don't have support on the thing and people they judge. They no accurate info.

QUOTES

• "The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate
• circumstances.But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice
• and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain
• power." http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/h/henryawal235391.html#wTHz4gwSDjh...
• Henry A. Wallace

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