Prejudice and Discrimination

1. Key Ideas

1.1. Prejudice is an unjustified or incorrect attitude (usually negative) towards an individual based solely on the individual’s membership of a social group.

1.2. Discrimination is the behavior or actions, usually negative, towards an individual or group of people, especially on the basis of sex/race/social class, etc.

2. Solutions

2.1. Cognitive Dissonance

2.1.1. People's attitudes change when they have conflicting attitudes or conflicting views and experiences. These make people uncomfortable and they must resolve them.

2.2. Robbers Cave study

2.2.1. You can get opposing groups to change their attitudes and work together when they have a mutual goal they need to work together to achieve.

2.2.2. YouTube

2.2.3. Realistic Conflict theory

2.2.3.1. Competition over scarce resources

2.2.4. In-Group/Out-Group Bias

3. Interview with 98 year old Roy Dupilka on discrimination he saw in the 50s.

4. In The Flesh TV show

4.1. "Previously Dead Syndrome sufferers" (vs. "rotters" - reframing)

4.2. PDS protection act

4.3. "It Gets Better" Project

4.4. People hear that "the rotters" won't take their medication

4.5. Fear of re-assimilating them into society

4.6. You can see the real pain behind the people who oppose the zombies

4.7. ptsd

5. Journalist Sally Kohn's experiences working at Fox News.

6. The Japanese internment in World War II

7. Breaking Prejudice website