What Kind Of Prejudice Are You?

What is prejudice and most of the people think that is a very easy question. It does seem like an easy question when you ask people what is prejudice most people give you some examples. They probably give an example of some kind of, religion or race-based inequality, some kind of gender-based inequality like women are prevented from working or women are not allowed to do some kind things as men. But those are just examples and they don't actually define prejudice.

Do you think people who are of the same sex, who love each other should be allowed to marry each other, some people think they should be allowed to get married and some people think they should not? So, is it prejudice to deny them the ability to get married? From looking at this question, it is definite that prejudice is not clear. So, we are going to actually find prejudice we should follow three ways that: a) Group-based perception or treatme b) Questions of fairness c) Questions of privilege

Many psychologists define prejudice ' as a negative evaluation of a group or of an individual on the basis of group membership.' So, if I dislike someone, if I dislike Josep, it is because of who Josep is or something that Josep has done to me personally and that is not a prejudice. I might be a jerk but I am not prejudiced against Josep but if I dislike because of a group he belongs to because of a country, or race, religion, language that would be prejudice. 

'Perception or treatment of a group that is inaccurate, unjustified, or overgeneralized.' A good example is that women are worse drivers, even though several studies have shown that actually women not only get into less accident but when they get into accidents these accidents are found to be less expensive rather than things that destroy the entire car. So, that is unfair and it’s incorrect and its group based. Here are some other group-based differences that might be unfair but are they prejudice and this is where the questions get tricky. What a woman believes that man is incompetent at something that is a woman believes that a man just cannot handle a managerial position. What about someone with a mental health problem like someone with depression believes that everyone else who does have that particular mental problem. It is bit deluded, bit hopelessly optimistic. Do we call that prejudice? These things do happen occasionally but we actually don't think that they are prejudice when they do happen. This is where we hit the question of privilege.

Prejudice is not just individual acts of meanness that one person can do to another based on group membership but sometimes there is inherent in the system and here are two things should be noticed. The privilege of race, if you are a dominant racial group, you can be sure children will be taught about the achievement of your race. These could be a privilege of sexuality. You can think that your relationship will be seen as an asset. If you are heterosexual, gradually when you are in a relationship that’s a good thing, that means you are an accomplished person and you are attractive o the opposite sex. If you are true sexual and you are in a relationship that can actually be seen as quite a negative thing. People may not appreciate that fact. People have a need for self-preservation, but this need for self-preservation is trusted by our knowledge of our own impending death and this frightens us to cope with this. people can adopt a worldview that offers them either a symbolic or a literal form of immortality.

You can attach yourself to something bigger than yourself, So you can say I might be short-lived but I am attached bigger than I am and its immortal. If you are Buddhist or Hindu for example, your body might die but your soul is immortal and you will be reincarnated over and over, in-fact in this way you in that way you will never die and many other religions have other beliefs or another way of coping with human mortality. Prejudice comes in through groups that seem to undermine the group that you belong to or the worldview that you hold. This does not have to be deliberate but if any group poses an alternate view and alternative cultural frame then this gives you some psychological discomfort. So, if you are proud of your country, but you are afraid that some other country is going to deride your country, you might not like that country's people. If you are Buddhist or Hindu and meet a group of Christen or Muslim people who say reincarnation is not real and they have another alternative that you won't have access to this. This might make you uncomfortable. At this point, they treat the other group badly to get rid of them or to at least treat them as though their worldview is not legitimate and by doing that they make themselves feel better. If you make people aware of their mortality people response with prejudice.

There is another kind of prejudice that is to escape from uncertainty. We attach ourselves to and these groups give us clear behavioural prescriptions. So, that we know what to do and we know how to handle life. It works well, hut prejudice comes in when other groups have other behavioural norms or other prescriptions and they challenge what we feel us our certainty about the prescriptions that we have to represent that as a picture. Uncertainty about life or the future what we are supposed to do or what our purpose is, and we only get that certainty from our group, but other group challenges it and prejudice comes.

Human beings have a need for social dominance but this itself is broken up into two ideas: one is a need for hierarchy which means that you need to have group ordered in terms of someone on the top or bottom. You need your group to be on the top, especially with this hierarchy you want your group to be higher up than other groups and this need for hierarchy and for dominance is what drives prejudice. And this produced sexism, racism, xenophobia, patriotism. If you understand that it is prejudice and there is some real reason to believe that social dominance orientation will predict prejudice behaviour. We have a social identity as well as personal identities. You may think of yourself as an individual, you may give yourself a name, you have a birthplace, you have an idea of yourself but you also have an identity that's rooted in the group you belong to. you may think of yourself as a student, of a particular school or member of a particular group or of a citizen of a particular country and this gives you an esteem, just like yourself identity gives you an esteem. You don't like your social identity to be threatened, if your social identity feels threaten or if you feel like you are feeling a bit low in your social identity then you try to bolstering them and its bolstering it that drives prejudice. Another thing is that if anyone challenges your particular social status then you are supposed to respond with prejudice, you use prejudice to build up your self-esteem and if anyone challenges your self-esteem they get prejudice in return.