Prejudice

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Giving Up Prejudice
Prejudice is a negative attitude towards a group of people who have some characteristic in
common that is not shared by all people. An attitude is a person’s tendency to respond favorably
or unfavorably to the objects and situations he or she encouterns. Attitudes towards a group or
person are made up of three components: affective, cognitive, and behavioral. The affective
composing concerns of how much the person likes or dislikes the attitude-object ex: person,
group, thing. A cognitive component consists of people’s beliefs about attitudes-objects.
Stereotype is used in prejudice that many beliefs, about some groups and it’s members have some
basis facts but has usually an overly simplistic and inaccurate beliefs that all members of a certain
group believe the same things and act in the same manner. The behavioral component concerns
the way a person feels that he or she should act towards the attitude-objects. - Grolier Inc.
People threw-out the world use prejudice. Some people due tend to use it and other
people might use it without even knowing that they are being prejudice towards a group or
person. In today’s society kids with out adults use prejudice against someone or something in
today’s society.
A true and hard to accept fact that today, is that gays are not accepted by many people.
But there are people who have, like myself, and other that still discriminate or are prejudice
against them. Off all the different types of predudice against homosexuals people who have
sexual or romantic relationships with people l of the same sex as themeselves is perphaps one of
which alot of people would think that is is very controversial in todays society. Alot of people can
see it as another life. They do not have the same privileges that any heterosexual couple have.
Firstly, marriage is said to be for a male and female and not for two people of the same sex.
Secondly, the image ...