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PATTERN OF

ETHNIC RELATIONS

B Y G R O U P 1

Pattern of racism RACISM PREJUDICE DISCRIMINATION STEREOTYPE

PREJUDICE is an emotional prejudgment or attitude towards a person or group of people. It refers to a categorical like or dislike of a group of people based on real or imagined social characteristics, usually associated with their race, religion, ethnic group, sexual orientation, or perhaps occupation.

DISCRIMINATION

refers to the act of disqualifying or mistreating people on the basis of their grou membership or on ascriptive groups rationally irrelevant to the situation. Whereas prejudice is a state of mind, discrimination is actual behavior. Prejudice and discrimination work hand in hand to create and sustain and ethnical stratification.

THEORIES OF PREJUDICE

Economic Theory - assumes that racial prejudice is a social attitude transmitted by the dominant ethnic majority class for the purpose ofstigmatizing some groups as inferior so that exploitation of the group resources will be justified. Symbolic theory -asserts that prejudice arises because of racial or ethnic group is a symbol of what people hate, fear, or envy.

THEORIES OF PREJUDICE

Scapegoat theory - maintains that human beings are reluctant to accept their mistakes for their troubles and failures so they look for an ethnic- minority to shoulder the blame. Social norm theory - asserts that ethnocentrism is a natural development of group living. Hatred and suspicion for the out-group are the standard and normal way of doing things, particularly in dealing with people.