Causes of prejudice
- Created by: Emma Mason
- Created on: 31-03-13 11:48
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- Causes of prejudice
- Scapegoating
- Blaming certain groups for bad things happening in society.
- Ignorance
- Not knowing the facts and not wanting to know them
- Fear
- Feeling threatened in some way
- Upbringing
- Your parents views influencing yours.
- Media
- magazines, newspapers, television e.t.c. portraying a certain view and putting pressure on you to think it is right.
- Stereotyping
- Thinking a group of people are all the same e.g Some people stereotype Muslims to be terrorists
- Fear of foreigners
- (xenophobia)
- Scapegoating
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