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http://news.kuwaittimes.net/website/outrage-egyptian-expat-savagely-beaten-attacker-nabbed/Answer these questions after reading article
1- Distinguish between prejudice, discrimination and stereotype
2- After reading the article, illustrate how a stereotype can be a threat to minorities of a specific group?
3- Instead of the Egyptian man, there was two Kuwaiti men, do you think this incident would have occurred? Explain your answer
4- in your opinion, who do you find to be guilty, the Kuwaiti or Egyptian man and who should have apologized? Why? http://news.kuwaittimes.net/website/outrage-egyptian-expat-savagely-beaten-attacker-nabbed/
Answer these questions after reading article
1- Distinguish between prejudice, discrimination and stereotype
2- After reading the article, illustrate how a stereotype can be a threat to minorities of a specific group?
3- Instead of the Egyptian man, there was two Kuwaiti men, do you think this incident would have occurred? Explain your answer
4- in your opinion, who do you find to be guilty, the Kuwaiti or Egyptian man and who should have apologized? Why?
Answer these questions after reading article
1- Distinguish between prejudice, discrimination and stereotype
2- After reading the article, illustrate how a stereotype can be a threat to minorities of a specific group?
3- Instead of the Egyptian man, there was two Kuwaiti men, do you think this incident would have occurred? Explain your answer
4- in your opinion, who do you find to be guilty, the Kuwaiti or Egyptian man and who should have apologized? Why?
Explanation / Answer
1. "Prejudice": A prejudice is a feeling about a person, or a biased attitude towards an individual, because they belong to a certain race, caste, social group or gender. Such an attitude may be positive or negative, but is usually unjustified and is held solely on the basis of the person's affliation with a certain group. A prejudice may develop in an individual towards a certain race, social group or gender due to social norms and conditioning, and is dependent on the person's belief about the concerned race or group. For example, as in the given article, a Kuwaiti citizen may dislike an Egyptian person solely because the person belongs to Egypt. A prejudiced person may or may not act on their attitude.
"Discrimination": Unlike prejudice, which is an internally held attitude, discrimination is the behaviour or action performed by an individual against/in favour of a certain group. Such actions may be intended to deny the rights of a person or to cause them physical harm, due to their membership in the discriminated group. An example of racial discrimination is the treatment of Jews by Nazis.
"Stereotype": An exaggerated belief about a group of people is called a stereotype. A stereotype may be positive or negative, but it can influence people to hold a prejudice or discriminate against people belonging to a certain group. For example, in the given article it is likely that the incident occured due to the Kuwaiti citizen's prejudice against the Egyptian, which was based on a stereotype about Egyptian people.
2. Stereotypes pose a psychological as well as physical threat to minorities of a specific group. When a group of people hold strong negative beliefs about another social group, it causes the latter group to become vulnerable to discrimination, violence, psychological stress and lack of security. Any person belonging to the specific group is under constant threat of attack by members of the majority group which holds negative stereotypes about him/her, as seen in the given article.
3. This incident may not have occured if there were two Kuwaiti men involved instead of the Egyptian. This is because there would be no negative prejudice against a fellow Kuwaiti citizen. Individuals belonging to the same group are likely to hold positive attitudes towards each other, and less likely to be violent due to the feeling of belongingness.
4. The Kuwaiti citizen is guilty of discrimination and crime against the Egyptian man. In the given situation, there had been no specific reason to induce violence on the part of the Kuwaiti citizen, yet the citizen became violent towards the Egyptian, merely because of his ethnicity.
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