Re - Prejudice and Discrimination Flashcards
Define Prejudice
to pre-judge someone or something usually without any real evidence
Define Discrimination
acting on prejudice
What is positive Discrimination?
where benefits are given to smaller minority groups to give them a greater chance
What is scapegoating?
when a person or group are blamed for something that is not their fault
What is tolerance?
to accept that people have different opinions and beliefs from your own
What is justice?
fairness, when there are equal rights and opportunities for all
What is community?
a collection of people who live and work together
What is harmony?
a community that is accepting of difference
What are types of prejudice?
Ageism Sexism Disability Appearance – Sophie Lancaster Racism Religious Homophobia
What are the causes and origins of prejudice?
Bad experience Parents/upbringing Media Ignorance Scapegoating
What are the effects of prejudice and discrimination?
Stopping certain people from joining groups, getting promotion, physical, verbal, mental abuse
What are religious responses to prejudice and discrimination by individuals?
Provide practical and spiritual support
Bible teachings could comfort the victim
Pray
Assemblies to promote tolerance
Name religious believers who have fought against prejudice?
Martin Luther King – bus boycotts, non-violent demonstrations, Washington march, civil rights movement
Stonewall
What is the law?
The 1976 Race Relations Act
1975 Equal pay
1995 Disability Discrimination
2007 Sexual Orientation Regulation
What is the role of woman in religion?
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
What are religious views on racism?
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
What are religious views on Homosexuality?
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
