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Follow-up

1. As is known, prejudice can be national, regional, religious, racial, social, sexual, political, based on appearance, based on intelligence/or ability. Can you think of examples of each type of prejudice? Can you think of any other types of prejudice?

2. Work in groups and discuss the following points. Read the text given by the teacher and share the information with your group mates. Make use of the following phrases: in my personal opinion; to my mind; it would be more reasonable to…; on the one hand,… on the other hand; I could be wrong but I think; personally I feel that; my concern is…; this is what I think.

1. What is the difference between stereotypes and prejudices?

2. What do you understand to be the difference between an attitude and a belief?

3. Which is easier to change, and why, an attitude or a belief?

4. Are beliefs necessary to sustain attitudes?

5. Why does the author say that beliefs can be rationally altered only "to some extent"?

6. What do modern researches show about the connections between prejudiced attitudes and beliefs?

7. What, if anything, is harmful about a prejudiced attitude that goes no further than antilocution?

8. What is the difference between genuine dislike of a certain kind of person and a prejudice against such people?

9. Many people in the past have had an unfounded dislike of "foreigners". Why then is racial prejudice a more serious problem in the modern world than ever before? Would you rank it as one of the most serious problems facing your generation?

10. Make up definitions of each of the following: (a) attitude; (b) belief; (c) rationalization; (d) discrimination; (e) genocide.

11. Discuss the following definition of racial prejudice as given by the author of this passage a little earlier in the book; "Ethnic prejudice is an antipathy based upon a faulty and inflexible generalization. It may be felt or expressed. It may be directed toward a group as a whole, or toward an indi­vidual because he is a member of that group."

Look up the definition of prejudice given in the Shorter Oxford Dictionary for comparison. Does racial prejudice always include an element of generalization and misconception?

3. The existence of national, racial, religious and political prejudice and misunderstanding underlies most of the world's problems today. The subject is a vast one; choose one aspect of it for discussion:

a. The history of prejudice: religious persecutions in the past. The treatment of Jews in Europe, native tribes in Africa, slaves in America, etc. The ideal of the British Commonwealth and the problems resulting from free travel to Britain.

b. Migrations of peoples: the growth of the United States and the British Dominions. Do any “pure” races exist? What prevents completely free movement from one part of the world to another? Why has Britain attracted people born in other parts of the world? List the main places they come from.

c. Theories of segregation: The cases for and against the doctrine of "apartheid". Is integration possible? Examples of multi-racial societies.

d. Race problems in Britain: discrimination in housing, employment and elsewhere. The growing number of coloured people born and bred in Britain. How far can legislation help?
Can we alter attitudes?

e. Conflict and violence: why has tension led to violence? Can Britain avoid the racial violence the United States has seen? Could the whole world split on racial lines? What should we do?

4. In the sixth line of the first paragraph the author uses the adjective “attitudinal”, derived from the noun “attitude”. Find the adjectives that he uses, derived from.

· antipathy

· detriment

· residence

· Hitler

· Fate

5. Write down a brief phrase or single word to mean the same as each of the following words.

· rationally

· propensity

· antagonism

· social privileges

· lynching

· pogroms

· genocide

6. Make up definitions of each of the following.

· attitude

· belief

· rationalization

· discrimination

· genocide