Compare And Contrast Prejudice And Discrimination

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There are a number of different ways to express our feelings about, or to others from giving simple complements to a person, or just think about them in a positive light. However, there are intense ways to think about a person in a negative light that could bring about thoughts, or actions that could be detrimental to the individual. There are two main kinds of terms associated with a negative view of people: prejudice and discrimination. Prejudice is a learnt, and mainly negative attitude that is usually directed toward specific people, because of their affiliation with a group, while discrimination deals with negative behaviour directed at members of a group. While these two terms seem to have similar meaning they do have vastly different
Often individual’s judges others based on their actions, which leaves an impression on the observer, but a person may also have a prejudice against another person, due to the fact they have seen, or things about the group that person may have affiliated themselves with, so people judge them based on that background information instead of their actual characters. For example, in Matthias Pum’s presentation of the holocaust, showed that the event was caused by a party in Germany during the 1930s to 1940s called the Nazis, where at the time they were planning, and actually tried to exterminate all the Jews present in the country. Pure-Blooded Germans were very nationalistic, and felt that they were the superior race against all the others, so they already had hostile feelings against other groups, especially the Jews. Furthermore, a big factor of why the holocaust occurred, was because of the fact that there were intense propaganda being spread across Germany, claiming that the Jews were the main source of Germany’s
While, attitude is a mindset, or thought process that people deal with, behaviour on the other side, is a key component in discrimination as it deals with the way a person acts, or conducts with themselves, or towards others. These behaviours of discriminations usually incites violence, or even insults against another person, with a big reason for it, because of the group they are in. For instance, in the same presentation that Matthias Pum had done, he mentioned that during 1930s to 1940s in Germany, Germans who heavily support Nazis did not just have a negative attitude against the Jewish population, they managed to commit various actions that intensely affected how the Jewish people lived in extreme harsh environments to later be outright killed. The first evident cases of discrimination against the Jews occurred in 1935, where it was legalized to discriminate, and belittle the Jews, and later on in time, more anti-Jewish laws were being created to further cause harm, and grief against the group. With each passing year, Nazis were creating more, and more hostile, and harmful laws to reduce the Jewish population, and to strip them of their rights, and human dignity, with really no other nation stopping this injustice, when in some cases, like in Canada, some countries do not want to get involved

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