It must be between 300-350 words about the topic and the answers for it.
This week discusses biases and prejudice. We all grow up with biases and prejudices about groups of people outside our own culture. We're taught to think in certain ways (often negatively) about other religious groups, ethnic groups, racial groups, people in a different economic class, those of a different sexual orientation, etc. We learn our biases and prejudices through the media and our education system, and often they are passed to us by our families.
Fortunately, we are not necessarily stuck with what our families, our schools, our religions institutions, our media programs, and society in general has taught us.
As we gain our own experiences with groups, we discover that some of the ideas and attitudes we hold about them are mistaken or uniformed. Sometimes our views shift 180 degrees.
- Identify and describe a specific bias or prejudice about another group that you learned in your earlier years but that has been changed because of your experiences and/or exposure to new information.
- Then tell us how it was challenged, and how it changed as a result.
Note: If you don't recall a particular bias or prejudice you held yourself, you can write about one that was held by the larger society and that has changed as a result of a successful challenge to its validity.