Describe the teachings of Christianity about discrimination and prejudice and explain how people should therefore be treated.
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Describe the teachings of Christianity about discrimination and prejudice and explain how people should therefore be treated. (24 marks) AO1.
Prejudice is defined as “thinking badly of others without sufficient reason”. The word “prejudice” itself means to prejudge, that is, we judge somebody without having knowledge or experience about the. So prejudice is a way of thinking about other groups of people. Discrimination is the act carried out by prejudice thinking and examples of discrimination are: racism, sexism, disability and ageism.
Racism is defined by the formula “prejudice + power”. Sometimes, our racial prejudices are made acceptable and supported by key institutions in our society. Racism is seen when racial prejudice is turned into action of some sort, and this action is to the disadvantage of some racial group of individual. Sexism is another form of prejudice, which is the belief that one gender is inferior to the other. In practice, this is nearly always the belief that women are inferior to men. Many people men and women have important differences, some of them physical and some psychological or emotional. Some people think that because of these differences, women deserve to have fewer choices than men, to do more than half of the world’s work for lower pay than a man, and to be judged on their appearance as objects rather than people with dignity. Ageism is discrimination as it is the process of implying that old people or worse than younger people. This happens often now with getting jobs as employers think that it is better to have younger people working as they are smarter and will do a better job which is prejudice as they are not giving them all an equal chance. Saying people are worse than you as they have disability of some sort and looking down at people with disabilities are discriminating as you do not give them a chance and you judge them before knowing them and think they are inferior to you.
