Discrimination and Extreme Prejudice Essay

RaStereotyping is a way of thinking about groups of people. It ignores the differences of the group, while stress its similarity. One smell, that is a stereotype, is that red-haired people are hot tempered. A nonher belief is that Scottish people are stingy. Such thinking ignores galore(postnominal) unruffled redheads and generous Scottish people. Stereotyping emphasizes galore(postnominal) differences between groups while ignoring their similarities to other people. It ignores that many blond and brown-haired people also lose their tempers. Stereotyping overlooks the fact that many American, Brazilians and French people are stingy.Stereotyping redheads or Scottish people commonly does little harm. It typically leads to fri breakly kidding and commodity-natured jokes. Simple-minded stereotyping can be dangerous. The danger lies in exaggeration of differences in color, nationality, religion and language. We exaggerate the differences, ignoring what we sell as human beings and become prejudiced. Prejudice is nourished by tutelage as it grows out of exaggeration. It is a profoundly negative emotion purpose the fruit of iniquity. Racism is a form of extreme prejudice that leads to tangible and psychological violence. Racists can be any color white, black, brown, red or yellow.A white racist thinks all blacks are alike, while a black racist thinks all Hispanics are alike. In addition, a Hispanic racist may think all Native Americans are alike. The cultural boundaries of racism pigeon hole another group, while having no boundaries of its own. It only requires a tangible object that can be pointed at, discriminated against, spat upon and attacked. The differences are not important because the attack comes from fear. Racism is expressed in labels including chink, spade, honky, wop, kike and Gook. Such is the power of stereotypical, simple-minded thinking.My pal was a small child when my family moved from okey to California, at the end of The Depression. Farmers had advertised in newspapers and flyers that there was plenty of work and candid pay, luring families (like mine) from the overworked dust bowl farms. Many native Californians were angry that the Okies were arriving in such(prenominal) large numbers. As my brother entered his new school, he experienced stereotyping, by teachers and classmates. They teased him because he had an accent and wore Okie overalls. He worked hard at assay to fit in, even changing his accent.Though my brother made good grades and was a great athlete, the name calling continued and he remained the military issue of many Okie jokes. As he entered high school, the stereotyping became prejudice. The hatred felt for him and others from Oklahoma became evident in the game, Get the Okie, where captured victims were thrown into garbage cans (where they belonged). My brother, who is over 65 years old, suffers from the prejudice he experienced as a late man, remembering the names of those who tormented hi m. He never understood the hatred directed at him, just because he came from another state.