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Prejudice is an unjustified attitude or opinion, usually a negative one, directed toward an

individual for something the individual cannot control. An example of prejudice is someone

thinking poorly of another person for his belonging to a certain race, or for having different

religious beliefs.

Some of the most well-known types of prejudice include:

 Racism.

 Sexism.

 Classism.

 Homophobia.

 Nationalism.

 Religious prejudice.

 Ageism.

 Xenophobia.

From this definition and types we can understand that attitudes, perceptions and behaviors are

affected positively when you are not underestimate the other people in your personal life or

organizational life. On the other hand if your attitudes, perceptions and behaviors are affected

negatively when you already decided that your friends or colleagues are wrong or you think that

they are bad people. Maybe they are not that type you are thinking.

Can prejudice ever be a good thing? We often think of bias and prejudice as rooted in ignorance.

But as psychologist Paul Bloom seeks to show, prejudice is often natural, rational, even moral.

The key, says Bloom, is to understand how our own biases work — so we can take control when

they go wrong.
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Discrimination is defined as distinguishing differences between things or treating someone as

inferior based on their race, sex, national origin, age or other characteristics. An example

of discrimination is when you can tell the difference between fine wine and cheap wine.

There are a variety of different causes, including: Ignorance about other peoples, cultures,

ethnicities, backgrounds, etc. Lack of empathy for those who may be different from oneself. Fear

of the unknown and those who are different.

There are four main types of discrimination that are important in schools;

direct discrimination and indirect discrimination, harassment and victimisation.

Direct discrimination in schools is when a child is treated less favourably on the grounds of

gender, disability, race, sexual orientation, religious belief or age.

Top 5 Ways to Overcome Discrimination

Embrace Your Beauty and Strength. Find ways to embrace and celebrate your identity—the

strength and beauty of you being you.

Take Good Care of Yourself and Learn to Cope.

Stand Up For Yourself

Strategize and Know the Consequences Before You Act. ...

Reach Out and Organize.

A stereotype is a mistaken idea or belief many people have about a thing or group that is based

upon how they look on the outside, which may be untrue or only partly

true. Stereotyping people is a type of prejudice because what is on the outside is a small part of

who a person is.

Common examples of positive stereotypes are Asians with better math ability, African

Americans with greater athletic ability, and women with being more warm and communal.
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According to Daniel Katz and Kenneth Braly, stereotyping leads to racial prejudice when

people emotionally react to the name of a group, ascribe characteristics to members of that

group, and then evaluate those characteristics.

Stereotyped individuals who receive negative feedback can attribute it either to personal

shortcomings, such as lack of ability or poor effort, or the evaluator's stereotypes and prejudice

toward their social group.

Negative stereotypes

For example, women are positively stereotyped as warm but negatively stereotyped as weak;

Asian-Americans are positively stereotyped as competent but negatively stereotyped as cold;

Black Americans are positively stereotyped as athletic but negatively stereotyped as

unintelligent.

Last but not the least as we say Perception is a subtle, personal view of one’s self in context with

the environment. Much of our upbringing influences the way we see and observe things that

affect our interpretation, meaning, and judgment. As training is developmental in nature, we can

develop or shape our perception to be as objective, unbiased, and progressive as we would want. 

But in the organizational context our attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors are affected positively

or negatively but we need to control and apply it very sensibly.

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