Prejudice

Prejudice occurs when their are negative attitudes about members of certain racial and ethnic groups. Prejudice can have an internal and external affect on  family. Another word that would tie in very strongly with being prejudice is "HATE." As kids growing up in homes, this is not an inherent trait to be prejudice. It is observed, taught and rubs off on the children. It is problematic in a sense that as kids of color grow up and internalizes prejudice, it can lead to acceptance and continue beliefs of stereotypes that some people of color are inferior. A group that is being prejudice against can develop low self esteem that leads to lack of successful achievement. Racial prejudice is a promotion in the statistics of inequality in society. The image below depicts how people of colored is usually denied of acceptance of white social groups and and therefore conformity is difficult. Prejudice of colored people is still existence in contemporary society but its just suppressed and undermined and some people/institutions are ignorant to it and are in denial.

Some interesting statistics (2003):

*antagonism toward a particular race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity/national origin, or physical or mental disability prompted hate crimes against 9,100 victims.

* A breakdown of the single-bias incidents by the type of bias revealed that 51.4 percent were motivated by racial bigotry, 17.9 percent were caused by religious intolerance, 16.6 percent were the result of a sexual-orientation bias, and 13.7 percent were triggered by an ethnicity/national origin bias. The remainder involved a bias against a disability.

*among the 6,934 reported offenders, 62.3 percent were white, and 18.5 percent were black. The race was unknown for 10.7 percent of offenders, and the remainder were of other races or were members of a group composed of offenders of varying races.

-Bui, Hai