Why do you think that prejudice exists in the world?

Question

please can any body answer this qestion ?

Answer 1

Instinct.

Humans, like wolves or birds, have developed a group mentality. We tend to form groups. It has helped us survive.

The nature of group dynamics is that members have compassion for those in the group and enmity towards those outside the group. This helps the group stick together and defend against outsiders.

However, humans have also developed a great capacity for abstract thinking. This allows us to form groups based on a much more varied set of things, such as political party, religion, or even football team. We tend to have comraderie with those like us and dislike for those outside of our group. Religion, especially, plays on this group dynamic to demonize those of other religions. Wars have been spurred by this.

Some group distinctions are more trivial than others. Obviously, one's football team is not very important, though fights have started over differences in allegiance. Unfortunately, people tend to automatically form such groups based on any difference, no matter how trivial. In the case of racial prejudice, skin color is an obvious choice.

This type of group dynamic is not necessarily a bad thing, unless we put too much weight into such things over such trivial differences.

Answer 2

Prejudice results from knowing danger, something we will all have learnt when we were younger. For example, you parents will no doubt have said not to do certain things, or you have experienced something and relised it hurts or u get into trouble, so u have avoided that situation. This quality also leads to prejudice, as if u are bullied when you are young and say you are white and the person bullying u is black, then until you see sense you'll think every black person is nasty nd hurts people.

Prejudice is bad, but its there because we need it to define danger, and this is what makes us human and apes ...well... apes lol

Answer 3

Inexperience.

It's the way human beings are wired. We label things and organize them into boxes in our mental database.

Ever notice how a very young child will have one name for anything with four legs? If they learn the word dog first, for example, then for a while every other animal they see (be it cat, horse, cow, etc.) is also a "dog."

As we grow older, we get more boxes, but the process is still the same. Until we learn the difference we tend to lump things into previously identified categories.

There's also the fear factor... being afraid of what we don't know. Doesn't help when we're scared to open the boxes and actually look at what's inside. :)

Answer 4

Prejudice exists in the world because we generally grow up learning that when someone is similar to us, they're on the same level as us. "Likes attract likes". A person who grows up in only a white community with people who listen to pop is only going to KNOW white people who listen to pop - it's the norm, it's what's considered to be "commonplace". When you take that person out of their snow-globe environment and integrate them with other people, they see things very different from what they were taught to believe is normal.

It's natural to believe that, because you grew up in a "normal" society, that what you believe is better - whether it's about race, music, clothing; because everything you know is based around this.

Now, nobody grows up on this extreme level, but as smaller children, we have friends who are similar - we play the same games, we like the same foods, we like the same music - so we only know that that's what's "right".

Answer 5

Truth. I'm sorry but most stereoptypes have some truth.

Example: Blacks commit more crimes than whites. Now, we can argue all we want about the social inequalilties and the racism that causes this to be true.... but the stereotype that blacks are criminals is rooted in the truth that blacks are 50% of the prison population and only 13% of the population.

Before you get angry and yell at me, please really read what my answer is saying.

Answer 6

political gain or just plain ignorance, prejudice is inevitable. it is a reaction from the effects of social structuralism & the power of control.

Answer 7

because ppl will always think they are superior to any other group of ppl. christians think they are superior to pagans, & vice versa. One race thinks they are superior to another race, and so on, and vice versa. It will always be that way, unfortunatly. As long as there are two diverse groups of ppl, with different beliefs, there will always be predjuduce. that is unfortunate. ( Can't we all just get along??)

Answer 8

Because the way that some people are raised.There raised to believe hat there race is superior,and that other races are inferior.

Answer 9

Many people find it difficult to accept or respect others that are a different race, creed, gender.

Answer 10

prejudice comes from old experience.but it may be wrong in many other situations.peple are happy to live in their past