How Prejudice and Discrimination Affects Our Modern Day Society.

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Re Course Work 2002:                                         John Tatum 11M

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In this piece of course work I will be evaluating how prejudice and discrimination affects our modern day society. Prejudice and discrimination can be shown in many different ways. Such as colour, race and gender.

So In this piece of course work I have chosen to talk about colour or race as an issue in society. This is because colour or racism is a moral issue in today’s society. People today seem to have an objection toward people of another colour or of a different race.  

Definitions of discrimination are people being rude or of an offensive manor toward people of different colours and people from a different race. Treating these people differently and seeing them as a animal and not as a human being. This can be very offensive and morally objective in today’s modern society.

The word prejudice means being unfair/horrible and offensive. This is for no reason at all. People often disvalue that persons opinion and disregards them completely. Prejudice is often around in today’s society and can even spread from large to small towns or villages.

When being offensive or rude to some one of a distinctively different colour to your self this will hurt their feelings and can often make the person receiving the comments feel different about them selves

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DISCRIMINATION: This is the denial of equality based on personal characteristics, such as race and colour. Discrimination is usually based on prejudice and stereotypes.

PREJUDICE: This literally means to "prejudge" based on preconceived ideas about others. No law can prevent prejudiced attitudes. However, the law can prohibit discriminatory practices and behaviours flowing from prejudice. Prejudice can be about many different things: religion, race, colour, sex, sexuality language, disability and,

A recent example of racism in today’s modern society is when an employee from a London firm ordered a Jewish worker to dress up as a nazi as ...

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