Did you know that you are prejudice?

Are you racist or just flat-line prejudice? Is there a difference between the two?

-A racist believes that one race is superior of another-  

-One who is prejudice has preconceived opinions-  

Prejudice or pre-judging is ignorance or limited knowledge. A Racist is prejudice and holds power to change or encourage. Being prejudice is oh so simple and many people in the World are guilty of pre-judging.

Now let’s break this down=  

All of us tend to have prejudicial attitudes towards other people, places and things. This type of prejudgment is sometimes based on not being educated about the subject or at the highest level--- ignorance. Now let’s be real... Prejudgment is a normal human response to new things, changes, and such issues dealing with racial, social, religious, sexual, and other forms of differences.  For example, if you hear someone say all Hispanic food is spicy or all Black people like Hip Hop music, both of these statements are prejudgments. Most of the time when a subject is different from the norm, human beings without being educated or with limited knowledge of the subject tend to prejudge. With that being said everyone is prejudiced in some sense and realistically no one is exempt.  Even the most educated person can be prejudiced because their understanding of another person’s way of life can be different; which can result in a prejudgment attitude.  Only a mature mind rather educated or not, has the ability to suspend judgment until all the evidence has been received.

Have you ever heard that there are multiple levels or types of prejudice?  It is safe to say that all human beings are prejudice because if you have ever decided not to go somewhere, try something new, or meet someone different because of what you have heard, your emotions, or due to a learned behavior, you are prejudice. Stereotypes or believing what others say about or preserve something as, this is the cognitive level.  For example, all Asian people eat rice and noodles. This statement is exaggerated and inaccurate which makes it a stereotype. Stereotypes are the social scripts we have in our heads about others. Can you name one stereotype that is absolutely without a shadow of a doubt--True? Let me know when you find it!  Now when you begin to fear or feel with joy when encountered by another person, place, or thing this level of prejudice is emotional or affective. The emotional level of prejudice is the most important level because even after the cognitive level has been challenged and undermined, emotions allow us to hanging on to prejudice because of the psychological need it fulfills. Prejudice is an attitude and when it results in an action, it becomes discrimination. This level of prejudice is behavioral and it is this level where unequal treatment on the basis of attribute such as race, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, or social class membership. What level of prejudice do you fall into?  

When it boils down to it, there are levels to this shit… In other words all humans are prejudice it just depends on how much they put into their preconceived opinions.