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___________ is the negative feeling or attitude towards a person or a group even if it lacks basis.
Prejudice
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Refers to the negative opinion about a person or group based on incomplete knowledge
Stereotype
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Refers to negative actions toward members of a specific social group that may be manifested in avoidance, aversion or even violence.
Discrimination
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What are the types of prejudice?
- Racism
- Religious Intolerance
- Linguicism
- Looksism
- Sexism
- Heterosexism
- Classism
- Ageism
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The belief that one’s own cultural or racial heritage is innately superior to that of others, hence, the lack of respect or appreciation for those who belong to a different race.
Racism
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A system of attitudes, actions and institutional structures that subordinates women on the basis of their sex
Sexism
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Negative attitudes towards LGBT
Heterosexism
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Distancing from and perceiving the poor as “the other”
Classism
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Negative attitudes members of dominant language groups hold against non-dominant language groups
Linguicism
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Negative attitudes held against the young or the elderly
Ageism
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Prejudiced against those who do not measure up to set standards of beauty. The usual victims are the overweight, the undersized, the dark-skinned.
Looksism
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Prejudice against those who are followers of religions other than one’s own
Religious Intolerance
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Who was the Black seamstress who was arrested because she did not give up her seat to a white man in the bus?
Mrs. Rosa Parks
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