What Is Prejudice?

Prejudice & Discrimination Aims: • To understand and distinguish between Prejudice, Discrimination and Stereotype. • Causes of Prejudice in the UK

What is a stereotype?

A stereotype is having a fixed idea about who someone or group of people are before meeting them. e.g. All Scottish people talk fast and wear kilts.

Stereotypical- having the qualities you expect a particular type of person to have. e.g. All RS teachers are religious

What are the stereotypes below?

How many English stereotypes can you think of?

What is a stereotype? a fixed idea about who someone or group of people are before meeting them

What is prejudice?

Prejudging someone without really knowing them

What is Discrimination?

Saying or acting on your prejudice.

What is prejudice?

Prejudging someone without really knowing them e.g. Thinking I don’t like foreigners What other examples can you think of?

What is Discrimination?

Saying or acting on your prejudice. e.g. “ I don’t like foreigners so I'm not going to employ them” What other examples can you think of?

Different types of prejudice.

Think of as many different types of prejudice Racism- e.g. Thinking someone is inferior because of the colour of their skin

Types of Prejudice

Remember Prejudice is thinking something in your head

What do Christians say about prejudice?

All people are made in the image of God

Always treat others as you would like them to treat you Bible

Bible

There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free man, male or female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

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• Complete the intro life boat activity: • What kind of prejudice did YOU display?

• Did you discriminate against anyone? If so, explain why you did this.

Revision on Prejudice and Discrimination • 1. Prejudice is__________________________________________ • An example of this is____________________________________ • 2. Discrimination is _____________________________________ An example of this is____________________________________ • 3. One teaching from Sacred Texts that could be used by Christians against discrimination is______________________ • 4. a) It is never right to discriminate against someone because ________________________________________________ b) It might sometimes be right to discriminate against someone because _______________________________________