Prejudice :: essays research papers

PrejudiceByPrejudice pot have been around forever. Prejudice goes on everywhere including here at Box old Middle School. It is sad people cant have mutual respect for each other even though we ar entirely antithetic in our own ways.Prejudice can be caused because of various powers. Religion, ethnic race and social status are examples of causes of impairment. Sometimes prejudice is caused by how we are raised. Many times parents pass on prejudice beliefs to their children. A lot people raised in the southern part of the country are prejudice against blacks. In the early to mid 1960s, prejudice was alive and well in the south. Blacks had their own bathrooms and were forced to ride in the back of city busses. Its saturated to believe that was doing on only 40 years ago. A lot of Middle Eastern countries are very prejudice against women.The Civil War was base on prejudice beliefs. The North wanted to keep slavery and the South wanted to abolish slavery. Many blacks were beat, r aped and killed just because of the color of their skin. Schools in the 1950s were segregated. Some students were forced to ride buses for many miles to prevent whites and blacks from attending the same school. Finally segregation was introduced. It caused a lot of problems, including some riots but eventually people learned to live together and I believe it ended up being a good thing for people and out country.Slavery was halt shortly after the Civil War but it did not stop people from being prejudice. The only way to stop prejudice is to teach all children from a young age to respect all people. Sometimes parents are not the right people to teach their children because they are already set in their ways and will never change. Some people are prejudice because they just dont know how to act any different or maybe they have never been exposed to different cultures or beliefs. Some people just think they are better than somebody else for no reason at all. Our only chance for a succ essful society is to get rid of prejudices. This is much easier said than done. Some religious prejudices have been going on for thousands of years. I dont know if there is any hope for these people. There are some simple things we can do as students and people. It is material simple.