PREVALENCE OF PREJUDICE IN THE SOCIETY

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Subject Area:Psychology

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Instead, this is a behavior that most people who perpetrate them learn from their surrounding environment. With respect to the current report media reports and the various accounts of testimonies that are being reported around the society, prejudice is turning to be a popular way of discriminating on certain sections of the society. Many studies have been conducted on this subject and the findings point towards a trait is still being embraced by many people around the world. This research proposal will have more of its focus on the state of immigration in the United States of America as a case study. The proposal will, therefore, aim at highlighting the actual state of the society as far as immigration, and thus prejudice is concerned.

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Background Looking at the history of the United States of America, the issue of immigration used to be and still is a major problem that the country has been working on. Almost every government that has come and go has had to formulate policies concerning immigration. Consequently, the different people who manage to move into the country come in with their own ways of living of living, interacting and communicating. The different forms or levels of living bring into light the issue of an imperfect society that lacks a consistent way of working out its daily issues. This leads to instances of poor communication brought about by factors such as language barriers and differentiated use of gestures. Purpose of the Study The better part of this study will be focusing on analyzing the various factors of prejudice, which can be understood to be the major contributing forces.

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Having understood the concept of prejudice, this study will enable the various interested individuals to establish an effective framework in curtailing this vice. LITERATURE REVIEW In most cases, the arrival of immigrants with huge cultural disparities, into the rural regions of the United States, was encouraged by factors such as job opportunities and tax incentives. This resulted in the emergence of pro-immigrant organizations such as coalitions and non-profit agencies. However, this was not the case in every part where immigrants arrived. Due to other matters such as social civilization, the various cultural groups living in the US began generating different perceptions towards each on the basis of race, gender, sex, class among others, the fight between immigrants and natives shifted from been resource-base to the aforementioned cases.

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The various forms of prejudice that have been witnessed in the US on various occasions are as it will be discussed. METHODOLOGY In this study, the basis of conducting the research will be by way of literature review. The research will seek to find out how immigration has warranted the emergence and continuation of prejudice in the society. This will enable the research work to be more efficient in making a structured kind of approach in as a crucial step in establishing the real state of the society as far as the topic of discussion is concerned. For instance, back in 2016, there were outcries in the public when several young black Americans were allegedly shot dead by white police officers under different circumstances.

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Racial prejudice does not arise at this point. But what happens after all these atrocities have been committed is what anyone would understand that racial prejudice might have just been a contributing factor towards the incidents. After these events took place, there were emergence of abnormally intense commentaries, suggestions and debates which were indirectly revealing racial tensions in some areas in the US. Instead of focusing on solving the matter at hand, most media analysis were centered on rising tension between two or more groups in some states or village in the country. In some other extreme cases, biases relating to weight can be witnessed among family members and even in health facilities, done by top health professions. Despite the many studies which have been done on this topic, there has been little information present with respect to the same.

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The little attention has been given to this issues explains why cases relating to the same are still being witnessing in most parts of our society today. All these occurrences overwhelmingly contribute to the subject of prejudice. It involves the unsupported perceptions that the society creates concerning a given section of people in the society, and this case those perceived to be overweight. Also, out of every twenty men, there is one who claimed to have been paid less income as compared to her female colleagues despite them being peers. The reason for this states of affairs is because the specific gender being affected in the specific incident are being perceived as people who are less competent. This is despite them having attained the same level of professionalism as their counterparts of the opposite gender.

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This common in the case of women. Additionally, it is quite a concern to notice the usual trend where women are less likely to be supported to take leadership roles at their workplaces and even in the society at large. These two categories have served as the significant aspect for understanding both today's America as well the country's history. In light of this fact, it is quite important to also highlight how unstable the two are. Their ever-changing composition has brought forward a somehow complex society with a wide range of cultural practices. Both religion and race have played a vital role in the progression, construction and also deconstruction of racial identities in America. For example, after the formation of the United States of America, there are some specific cultures and beliefs that were adopted by Americans from their former colonial masters.

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Interestingly, it is of importance to put bring into attention the fact that the images of intended to showcase how Jesus was like in general, was produced and distributed by Bible tract societies as well as benevolent groups which actively practiced presentism. At a later stage that is in the late 19th century religious nativism was at its peak in America. The native Protestants were continuously protesting the growing influence of immigrants who were Catholics. The natives categorized the Catholic immigrants as a threat to what was perceived as the white Protestant hegemony in America. (Clark, 2017).  Legacy of Hate: A Short History of Ethnic, Religious and Racial Prejudice in America: A Short History of Ethnic, Religious and Racial Prejudice in America.

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