Essay On Deadly Disease

Dangerous and Deadly Disease
Throughout history, humans have had the eagerness to explore lands different from theirs, to discover new things and meet people different from them. However, despite this eagerness, there is still a resistance to accept those who will appear to be different among us. In America, when we think of prejudice we often think of it in terms of Blacks and Whites. However, prejudice has proven to be much more than that, it affects everyone – the homeless, middleclass, working class and even the rich people. As fellow humans, who are we to judge another person based on how they talk, dress, look or act? But yet we all do it, we judge people on how different they are from us. According to Webster’s dictionary, prejudice is a “preconceived judgment or opinion formed without just grounds or before sufficient knowledge”. It is “an irrational suspicion or hatred of a particular group, race or religion.”(1) To me, prejudice is a disease, with symptoms like fear, intolerance, ego, segregation, hatred, and discrimination, that affects people all over the world and that hardly has a cure for it. In this paper I will be discussing 3 different types of this disease (racial, gender and sexual prejudices) that have reared their ugly heads throughout all the Civil rights movements that we have studied this term. Education and communication are the first steps in resolving prejudice in humankind.
With this in mind, I can certainly say that at some point in life, every individual has been treated like an outsider, likewise, as a group people can be are treated as outsiders collectively. In this paragraph I will be discussing racial prejudice in accordance ...

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...ing property prices (working couples), unemployment (women stealing men’s jobs), teenage delinquency (feminists driving men to abandon their sons), reality television (the “feminization” of the culture) and increasing sexual violence (now that women don’t defer to them, men have suffered a violent “identity crisis”)”(4) (Mendes, pg 2).
Although the feminism fight for every other woman is misperceived as the above, the African American woman has to undergo and overcome a dual oppression “(racist, sexist and classist) because of their dual racial and gender identity and their very limited access to economic resources” (3) (Peniel, pg 109)
Ignorance is bliss as they say, now we will talk about sexual prejudice, which refers to “all negative attitudes based on sexual orientation, whether the target is homosexual, bisexual, or heterosexual”.