Causes Of Discrimination

Discrimination is the behaviour or actions, usually negative, towards an individual or group of people. Believe it or not, discrimination was being experienced by almost every single person in this world. This type of actions or more commonly called discrimination is originated by the stereotype and the prejudice itself. Basically, prejudice is the inflexible and irrational attitudes and opinions held by members of one group about another. So, if the stereotype and prejudice does not happen at the first place, discrimination will never occurred. The individuals who hone discriminations do as such to secure open doors for themselves by denying access to those whom they accept do not deserve a fair treatment from every other person. The most

Socialization: A lot of discriminations seem to be passed along from old generations to the young ones. The media social including television, movie and advertising also plays a crucial role in this part with publishing demeaning images and stereotypes about assorted groups, such as ethnic minorities, women, gays and lesbians, the disabled, and the elderly.

2. Conforming behaviour: The practices of discriminations in daily life may bring support from others, so the rejection of the discrimination or prejudice concept may lead to losing social support. The pressures to conform to the views of families, friends, and the society can be really hard to be avoided.

3. Economic benefits: Discriminations and prejudices usually increasing dramatically when a type of group is in direct competition for jobs or their own benefits. This claim may be the answer why the discriminations always rise during time of social and economic

Disabled: this type of discriminations are towards the people that having a disability such as amputated or deaf. Usually the employer will neglect the applicant from this kind of person and hired a normal person first with the concept in their mind that the disabled person can’t give a good performance in their work compared to the normal workers. EFFECTS OF DISCRIMINATIONS

EFFECTS EXAMPLES

Low self-esteem The discriminations towards a human sometimes really give a big impact towards their mind. It destroyed their self-esteem and drag them down. E.g. insults, denial of equality, violence.

Disadvantages/failure The persons that facing the discriminations may be denied their rights or their full potential that are really important for their career and success in life

Self-fulfilling prophecies Expectations and assumptions about the group members will influence interactions with the member of that group and eventually change their behaviour so that it is in keeping with the original assumptions and expectations. violence Extreme kind of discriminations that lead to physical harm and led to death or injury. E.g. apartheid in South Africa or the Holocaust during the