Prejudice and Discrimination S3 Social Education

Learning Intentions By the end of today’s lesson you should be able to Define the terms ‘prejudice’, ‘discrimination’ and ‘stereotype’ Give examples of each

Task 1 Look at the following 4 people. Write down their name and nationality b) Try to answer the questions on the slide Based on what you know already about people from these countries who live in the UK answer the questions by yourself in your jotter. Don’t worry if you think they sound bad.

Jaceck – Polish Where does he live? Where does he work? What does he like to do? What else do you think you know about him?

Saddaf - Chinese Where does she live? What is her job? What does she like to do? What else do you think you know about her?

Aamir - Pakistani Where does he live? What is his job? What does he like to do? What else do you think you know about him?

????? Imran Pakistan Model What do you think his name is? Where do you think he is from? What is his job? What else do you think you know about him? Pakistan Model

Prejudice This means ‘pre-judging’ Here comes Bob – he’s meant to be a real trouble-maker. Don’t like the look of him… This means ‘pre-judging’ It is when you make assumptions about a person or group of people without knowing them personally. It can be based on rumours, stereotypes, or your experience of someone different that you (wrongly) apply to others. ‘Oh dear, I don’t want to go to my new school – I’ve heard the head-teacher is really scary!

Stereotypes Task 2 Draw a picture/ cartoon/ caricature in your jotter of one of the following. You can annotate your drawing with appropriate words. Scottish person Irish person American person Australian person French person What do you think the word ‘stereotype’ means?

Stereotyping This is an over-exaggerated, unjustifiable mental image of a person or group of people. Usually built up from many experiences of unique characteristics that have been given a ‘cartoon-like’ form. Can be used in humour, like in the Simpsons but CAN be a real PROBLEM when people believe the stereotype and judge people on them!

Task 3: Match the Stereotype Teenager Old Person American Man Scottish Disabled Muslim Homosexual Woman Black Man Terrorist Over-Sensitive and talks too much Good dancer and cool Useless and a burden Camp and flamboyant Dotted and past it Ginger and drunk Fat and loud Lazy and disrespectful Macho

New Words – Copy down Stereotype – an over-exaggerated, unjustifiable mental image of a person or group of people. Prejudice – when you make usually wrong assumptions about a person or group of people without knowing them personally.

Discrimination This is when you ACT on a prejudice. Pleasant, professional, well-qualified, good references…but women talk too much, she won’t be one of ‘the boys’. I’ll go for the other guy – I’m sure he’s just as capable… This is when you ACT on a prejudice. Discrimination = prejudice + power or action This is when you treat someone badly because of what you think about them (even though it is probably untrue)  Copy this formula down

Task 4 Put an A next to the ones you think are an action and a D next to the ones you think are discrimination Physical Abuse Racism Threatening someone Not giving a job to someone Ageism Homophobia Religious Intolerance Verbal Abuse Sexism Bullying

Task 5 a) Describe a situation when you either judged someone/ a group of people before you knew them, or discriminated against someone. b) Why do you think you did this? c) If you had the chance to go back in time, would you do the same thing? Give reasons for your answer.

Impressions - Extension listen to the following article read by your teacher Answer the following tasks Who do you think this article was written about? Who do you think wrote this article? Do you think the person writing this gives a fair impression of these people?

The article is actually written by an Australian journalist about BRITISH people moving there.

This article shows us that racism can be against anyone – even us. Impressions This article shows us that racism can be against anyone – even us. The ideas the Australians used against us are the same as we might say about immigrants to Britain: that they are lazy, stealing jobs, smelly, etc. If we think it is untrue about us, then how could we be justified in thinking it is true about immigrants we haven’t met either? All it takes to form a racist opinion is a few stereotyped ideas, a lack of factual information, and a negative attitude.

Learning Intentions You should now be able to: Define the terms ‘prejudice’, ‘discrimination’ and ‘stereotype’ Give examples of each