Stereotype,
Prejudice, Discrimination and Bias
Discrimination
While
I was growing up I was watching TV a lot. Because back in the days internet and
computers were new technology and it was not in every home yet. I learned a lot
of both bad and good things from TV. First time I learn something about
discrimination was by watching Palestine being occupied by Israel. The Arabian media and news were all
over the occupation. I thought that Israel took over the land of Palestine at
that time by vicious ways of killing Innocent people and destroying buildings and houses without any sold
justification. The discrimination was against Palestine because that Palestine
was near Europe which contains a lot of biased and prejudiced Jews, weak
country, Islamic country and because it’s Arabian country. That’s what I first
witnessed and learned from media and school about discrimination.
In
the UAE large percentage of houses has maids in them. Those maids in some
houses considered somehow as a second mother. Because both the wife and husband
are busy. I’ve seen a lot of maids been discriminated and overworked because
they are considered as low class human being. And I think maids realized that
long time ago. In any period of her job any maid can easily be dangerous on any
family. If Maids want to hurt a family because of discrimination she can do
many bad things like poisoning the food, hit the babies, children’s and old
people and do black magic. I’ve witness all those things about maids and I have
heard worst. I think this is unsolved problem until now and I hope the country
find a solution or some sort of monitoring.
Prejudice
Prejudice usually starts by a negative
impression or prejudging on certain person or group with or without reasons. I
have some rules that I made for myself .some of them are prejudice like “no one
is worthy of trust. Even the family” which is in my opinion is very true. I
always believed that both love and friendship with anyone is already “broken
relationship” so eventually I will deal with either relationships and I know
they are broken. I usually things like ’’all girls are bad at sports’’,
"all teachers are mean" and ''All boys are bad at art''. All of them
are wrong because they generalized everyone not individual.
Stereotype
Generalizations about all members of a group,
both positive and negative.
I
usually heard that:-
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“All Arabs and Muslims are terrorists”. My
thought: Very wrong.
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“Italian or French people are the best lovers”.
My thought: Well Not necessarily.
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“All Asians like to eat rice”. My thought:
True!!(Most of them).
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“All
Irish people are drunks and eat potatoes”. My thought: I don’t know about that,
I don’t think it’s true.
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“All Asians are good at math”. My thought: Am Asian and am not that good at
math.
