Prejudice

Definitions

• Is an unjustified or incorrect attitude (usually negative) towards an individual based solely on the individual's membership of a social group.
• An adverse opinion or learning formed without just grounds of before sufficient knowledge.
• Irrational, preconceived opinion that leads to preferential treatment to some people and unfavorable bias or hostility against others, due to ignorance (or in direct contradiction) of facts. Prejudice literally means, prejudgment.
•  Prejudice is a baseless and usually negative attitude toward members of a group. Common features of prejudice include negative feelings, stereotyped beliefs, and a tendency to discriminate against members of a group. While specific definitions of prejudice given by social scientists often differ, most agree that it involves prejudgments (usually negative) about members of a group.

United Nations

Every human being has human rights, and these one established by law; it is called universal declaration of human rights, which represents the recognition of basic human beings. This applies for everybody no matter nationality, place of residence, gender, language, ethnic origin, etc.

It also exists “international human love rights” which gives obligations to state, it basically talks about the state protecting individuals humans rights.

Features of prejudice include negative feelings, stereotyped beliefs, and a tendency to discriminate against members of the group. Prejudice can be based in different factors like sex, race, age, sexual orientations, religion, socioeconomic status, etc. In many cases, prejudices are based upon stereotypes. A stereotype is a simplified assumption about a group based on prior assumptions. Stereotypes may be positive or negative.

According to psychologists the human being tends to categorize everything, so it is called aid of categories. Once formed, categories are the basis for normal prejudgment and we use to take familiar categories for the things we like or we see very common. We tend to minimize the differences between people within groups and exaggerate the differences between groups.

Summarized information

Prejudice is a product of our experiences. Is something that we develop from our experiences in life, and which you apply when you make rational judgments.

"The human mind must think with the aid of categories," Allport explained. "Once formed, categories are the basis for normal prejudgment. We cannot possibly avoid this process. Orderly living depends upon it."

It is a judgment occurring before it should. To ignore their inner goodness (or badness) and leap to conclusions, before we know what kind of person they are. Also, it’s a type of racism and is caused because of the lack of information.

There are many stereotypes we learn as children. We learn them as facts and behave as if they were truth.

Movie

Niñas mal (2007)

References:

• Cherry, Kendra. “Prejudice: What It Is, How It Forms, & How to Prevent It” Web. 1 Sept. 2015. <http://psychology.about.com/od/pindex/g/prejudice.htm>.

• Web. 1 Sept. 2015. <http://www.apa.org/monitor/oct04/prejudice.aspx>.

• "UnderstandingPrejudice.org." UnderstandingPrejudice.org. Web. 1 Sept. 2015. <http://www.understandingprejudice.org/>.

• "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, UDHR, Declaration of Human Rights, Human Rights Declaration, Human Rights Charter, The Un and Human Rights." UN News Center. UN. Web. 1 Sept. 2015. <http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml#a1>.

• O'Neill, Ben. Mises Daily. 10 de March de 2011. MisesInstute. 31 de August de 2015.

• "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, UDHR, Declaration of Human Rights, Human Rights Declaration, Human Rights Charter, The Un and Human Rights." UN News Center. UN. Web. 1 Sept. 2015. <http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/hr_law.shtml>.