Prejudice

• We can have all kinds of prejudices. Can you think of examples

1. food2. Sexes3. Classes4. Racial5. ‘skeletons in the cupboard’6. Age7. Religion

Why do we have prejudices?

• Fear• Insecurity• People to blame Any to add?

Can you think of examples of each?

Racism

• Walt – to relate a parable to the problem of racism and to understand the Christian teaching on racism.

• TIB – this is a foundational feature of when there isn’t social harmony

• Wilt – understanding expressed in modern day storyline of the parable of the Good Samaritan

Racism

Racism is the belief or feeling that people of a certain race are inferior. There is racism in many parts of the world today, some of it in Britain.

Racism and related definitions• Racism – the belief that some ethnic groups are

superior to others• Racial harmony – different ethnic groups living

together peacefully• Prejudice – believing some people are inferior

or superior without even knowing them• Discrimination – putting prejudice into practice

and treating people less favourably because of their ethnicity/gender/colour/class

• Write down these definitions with an example of each one

Prejudice and discriminationPrejudice – to prejudge someone because of the way they look, where they come from, their religion etc. Prejudice is a way of thinking about people.

Discrimination – to act on a prejudice. If you are prejudiced against a certain group of people, and treat them differently because of your beliefs, this is called discrimination.

Why are people racist?

Racism in Britain

What is Racial abuse/discrimination?• This can take on a variety of different forms and can be found

in various places.• People can be verbally and physically abused because of the

colour of their skin. This can range from name calling to murder.

• People can also be discriminated against because of their skin colour: A man who is Asian British that the room he would like rent is taken – even though it isn’t. The Landlord is prejudiced as he doesn’t like Asians, and he put this prejudice into action. Do you think this is right?

• The Metropolitan Police force have been accused of being racist as figures have shown that black people are five times more likely than whites to be stopped, searched and arrested

An African American drinks out of a segregated water cooler designated for

"coloured" patrons in 1939 at a streetcar terminal in Oklahoma City.

Wikipedia definition• Racism is a belief in the moral or biological superiority of

one race or ethnic group over another or others.[1] The term racism is also sometimes used to refer to preference for one's own ethnic group (ethnocentrism)[2], fear of difference (xenophobia), views or preferences against interbreeding of the races (miscegenation)[3], and nationalism[4], regardless of any explicit belief in superiority or inferiority fact. Related concepts include prejudice, discrimination and racialism.

• Racism has been used to justify social discrimination, racial segregation and violence, including genocide.

• The term racist, when used to describe someone who subscribes to racism, has been a pejorative term since at least the 1940s, and for this reason the identification of a group or person as racist is nearly always controversial.

Scientific racismNott and Gliddon's Indigenous races of the earth (1857) used misleading imagery to suggest that "Negroes" ranked between whites and chimpanzees. Note

the different angles at which the "white" and "negro" skulls

are positioned. Nott and Gliddon's work is considered

one of the classics of scientific racism.