Prejudice Flashcards
Gandhi
He fought for freedom and equality.
He fought peacefully for Indian independence and other civil rights acts.
He was assassinated.
Anne Frank
She was a Jew who was in hiding form the Nazis.
She is famous because of her words that were passed on through her diary.
She died in a concentration camp.
The Kindertansport
This was the transport that took children, who were Jews, from Europe to England countryside to escape from the Nazis.
Genocide
The deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular nation or ethnic group.
Who was killed in Nazi, Germany?
Jews were killed because of the Nazis leader Hitler.
Anti-Semitism
What happened in Kosovo?
There was racism between ethnic groups
What was Rwanda?
Mass slaughter by an ethnic group who are Hutu supremacist.
People who thing they are superior than other groups.
Racism
Discrimination:
Race, colour of their skin, people of ethnic minorities
Homophobia
Discrimination:
Homosexuals; gay and lesbian people
Anti-Semitism
Discrimination:
Jews
Xenophobia
Discrimination:
Foreigners
Ageism
Discrimination:
Age, usually old or young
Islamophobia
Discrimination:
Muslims
Sexism
Discrimination:
Gender
Prejudice
Unreasonable feeling, opinions, or attitude, especially of a hostile nature regarding an ethnic group, racial, social or religious group.
