Prejudice & Discrimination

Title: Prejudice & Discrimination
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics | Words: 400 | Pages: 1.7 (approximately 235 words/page)

Prejudice & Discrimination

Prejudice & Discrimination Prejudice is a set of learned beliefs and values that lead a person to be biased against other members of other groups. People are not seen as individuals, and biased people label other people to special groups. Prejudice is mostly based on inaccurate information about people. For example, immediately after September 11th, a mass amount of Americans developed a hate for people from the Middle East even though all the facts about the …showed first 75 words of 400 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 400 total…reasons that are relevant for justifying moral propositions are: (1) Standards of the actor’s culture, (2) Empirical propositions which derive their relevance from the standards identified in the actor’s culture, and (3) Definitions which derive their relevance from the standards of the actor’s culture and the empirical propositions identified in the actor’s culture. An example of a cultural relativism may be a woman killing herself after her husband dies because it is socially correct.

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