Re - Prejudice and Discrimination

Question 1

Define Prejudice

Answer 1

to pre-judge someone or something usually without any real evidence

Question 2

Define Discrimination

Answer 2

acting on prejudice

Question 3

What is positive Discrimination?

Answer 3

where benefits are given to smaller minority groups to give them a greater chance

Question 4

What is scapegoating?

Answer 4

when a person or group are blamed for something that is not their fault

Question 5

What is tolerance?

Answer 5

to accept that people have different opinions and beliefs from your own

Question 6

What is justice?

Answer 6

fairness, when there are equal rights and opportunities for all

Question 7

What is community?

Answer 7

a collection of people who live and work together

Question 8

What is harmony?

Answer 8

a community that is accepting of difference

Question 9

What are types of prejudice?

Answer 9

Ageism 
Sexism 
Disability 
Appearance – Sophie Lancaster 
Racism 
Religious 
Homophobia

Question 10

What are the causes and origins of prejudice?

Answer 10

Bad experience 
Parents/upbringing 
Media 
Ignorance
Scapegoating

Question 11

What are the effects of prejudice and discrimination?

Answer 11

Stopping certain people from joining groups, getting promotion, physical, verbal, mental abuse

Question 12

What are religious responses to prejudice and discrimination by individuals?

Answer 12

Provide practical and spiritual support
Bible teachings could comfort the victim
Pray
Assemblies to promote tolerance

Question 13

Name religious believers who have fought against prejudice?

Answer 13

Martin Luther King – bus boycotts, non-violent demonstrations, Washington march, civil rights movement
Stonewall

Question 14

What is the law?

Answer 14

The 1976 Race Relations Act
1975 Equal pay
1995 Disability Discrimination
2007 Sexual Orientation Regulation

Question 15

What is the role of woman in religion?

Answer 15

Christianity – women cannot be priest in the Roman Catholic church
In Theravada Buddhism women will pray for the reincarnation as a man
Buddha was a woman in a previous life
Annica
Metta
Right speech and action
Men and women are made Imago Dei

Question 16

What are religious views on racism?

Answer 16

Anatta – no permanent self 
Right speech 
Two of the three poisons-hatred and ignorance 
Treat others how you like to be treated 
“do not ill-treat foreigners in your land,”
“Love thy neighbour,”
Agape 
Imago Dei

Question 17

What are religious views on Homosexuality?

Answer 17

Telos
Part of our purpose is to reproduce
Sinful as not open to the possibility of procreation
“you should not lay with a man as you would a woman,”
“we should flee from sexual immorality,”
Third precept – I undertake to refrain from misuse of the senses, Buddhists believe that you should not be controlled by your desires