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  • Essay / Essay on Deadly Diseases - 1089

    Dangerous and Deadly DiseaseThroughout history, humans have had the desire to explore lands different from their own, discover new things and meet different people. 'them. However, despite this eagerness, there is still a resistance to accepting those who will appear different among us. In America, when we think of prejudice, we often think of it in terms of blacks and whites. However, prejudice has proven to be much more than that: it affects everyone: the homeless, the middle class, the working class and even the rich. As humans, who are we to judge another person by the way they talk, dress, look or act? And yet we all do it: we judge people based on how different they are from us. According to Webster's Dictionary, a prejudice is a "preconceived judgment or opinion formed without good basis or before sufficient knowledge." It is “irrational suspicion or hatred toward a particular group, race, or religion.” »(1) To me, prejudice is a disease, with symptoms like fear, intolerance, ego, segregation, hatred and discrimination, that affects people all over the world. the world and there is hardly a cure. In this article I will discuss 3 different types of this disease (racial, gender, and sexual bias) that have appeared in every civil rights movement we have studied this term. Education and communication are the first steps to eliminating prejudice within humanity. With this in mind, I can definitely say that at some point in life every individual has been treated like an outsider, just as a group can be treated like an outsider. collectively. In this paragraph, I will discuss racial bias based on housing prices (working couples), unemployment (women stealing men's jobs), teenage delinquency (feminists pushing men to give up their son), reality TV (the “feminization” of culture), and increasing sexual violence (now that women no longer rely on them, men have suffered a violent “identity crisis”)” ( 4) (Mendes, p. 2) Although the fight of feminism for all other women is wrongly perceived as such, the African-American woman must suffer and overcome double oppression “(racist, sexist and classist) due to her dual racial and gender identity and her very limited access to the economy. resources" (3) (Peniel, p. 109) Ignorance is bliss as they say, we will now talk about sexual prejudice, which refers to "all negative attitudes based on sexual orientation, whether the target is homosexual, bisexual or heterosexual ».”.