Which people do you think get prejudice and stereotypes the most? And what are solutions to stop that?

Anyone that is different or stands out from the crowd seems to draw a lot of flak. And I don’t know what we can do to make people more accepting.

Women. And the stereotypes and prejudice against women are so insidiously built into the cultural power structure that it is hard for people to notice unless each instance is specifically pointed out to them.

What a related question to recent experiences. If you look different, oh my! If you act different, OH MY! If you don’t agree, HOLY $*#%!! Close down the bar and get a rope!

Solutions to stop that I don’t think exist…unfortunately.

When you say “get prejudice and stereotypes the most”, what exactly do you mean? Are attempting to quantify prejudgment based on raw numbers (population) or frequency? Are we looking at expressed prejudgment? And are you attempting to identify all prejudgment or just a particular flavor? In other words, are we measuring what we perceive to be negative judgment or are including positive or neutral as well? And finally, does the prejudgment still count if the judgment is eventually confirmed to be inaccurate?

@hominid people who got juged the most

White, conservative males with a good job, college degree and no handicaps.

@kiki__: ”@hominid people who got juged the most”

I’m not sure that question is as clear as you think it is. In fact, I can’t make any sense of it.

Black people, homosexuals, muslims, the poor

I grew up non-Mormon in Utah. I got judged every time I said “Hello” to someone. The first thing they said to me was, “What ward** to you go to?”

If I didn’t give the right answer, they’d tell me they couldn’t play with me. I grew up in that culture. I don’t know racial discrimination, but I’m quite familiar with religious discrimination.

**A ward is the Mormon word for neighborhood church, and there was a ward every few blocks. The next level up was a stake house- maybe 10 wards to a stake.

So there’s discrimination in every culture, on every level. It’s ingrained, and can’t be “bred out of us”.

If I answer that then wouldn’t I be stereotyping and be showing bias. Then I would have to put people such as myself in that category. LOL
I agree with @UnholyThirst. Everyone would simply point the finger at any group but their own. The moment you classify yourself as belonging to any group, you create an us and them. So there is going to be reason you prefer your own classifications and by default become bias towards the opposite. What there is, is degrees of biases.
Like I love cats but not to live with because they rub themselves on everything and get hair everywhere. I prefer dogs, because although they can shed, they can be trained easily enough no to go where ever they please. No big deal right. (well accept to severe cat lovers)
Now as for humans. When I go to Puerto Rico, I find I prefer the company of the people on the island. Doesn’t matter what race they are. I just find, that I don’t feel judged because of my stature, or color or race or age. I feel very at home and am treated with respect. It isn’t even just from the tourist section. It is from the average person in the street. I can’t say the same for other places I have visited. I do not feel that at home or welcomed even in my own country, the United States.
So there is a sweet spot in my heart for Puerto Rico. Germany wasn’t too bad either and Japan. I wouldn’t say I felt accepted but at least respected in those two countries.
Can’t say that for Spain, France or England or Italy. I think a lot of the European countries still show a preference for males. Or maybe they just don’t care for Americans.

Everyone gets judged to a certain extent. Some worse than others. Gays comes to mind right off the bat. Black people. Women. People make assumptions about women based on the way they’re dressed, or just because they are a woman.

The only way of changing it is through discussion, enlightenment, and attempting to put yourself in their shoes.

@ UnholyThirst, well said dear. Judgments, prejudices as well as stereotypes are sadly apart of everyday life, as respectful as many are in the public eye, there are always those who bad apples in the bunch to just blurt out something of an ignorant nature, sad but true.btw I think the Movie Crash is the perfect example of this behavior.

Every group has stereotypes and prejudices against them.

Sad to write that 2014, but: Women.

straight man, 45 years old.

people that look young for their age get discriminated a lot too. A lot of people think it is cute to make fun of people like that but it is actually rude.

Yes also some people make assumptions that all black people are ghetto and behave like rappers in some places.

I think we all discriminate to a certain extent.

Some people just don’t like people that a different to them a.k.a small town mentality haha

IN my area it is non-whites, but most are polite & don’t say or do anything. Just whisper to eachother.

@KNOWITALL Where do you live ?

That would not be as easy as it seem, depending on where you are that changes. Universally I would have to say that the groups that get the most prejudice and stereotyping across the board are those who have had sex with people under 16yr. and those from anywhere in the Middle East other than Israel and the Saudis (because they are US boot lackeys).

@Chinchin Rural Missouri. My half Japanese niece was treated terribly in Japan’s schools. It’s everywhere.

I would have to agree with @ml3269. World wide, I would also have to say women as well. Woman make up at least half of the world population and many are still denied an education, jobs, promotions, and are raped, killed, forced to marry their rapists, abused and denied help, and kidnapped and held as sex slaves. Despised if they speak out or try to get ahead in the corporate world and shunned. Just because they were not born men.

The victims of course are the ones who understand the penalties of being stereotyped. It nevertheless rarely prevents them from harboring their own biases. It would appear to be an inescapable and universal aspect of the human condition.

@Hypo

The word prejudice means to pre-judge someone based upon assumptions

Those who unlawfully subject children to sexual activity are not being PRE-judged. The judgement is based upon conviction in a court of law and subsequent classification as a sexual predator.

It’s their own actions which have put them in the category of sexual predator. There is no pre-judging them before the fact. Plus the court requires them to register as a sex offender.

So how is that pre-judging them? Theyve been judged in a court of law not for their imaginary or future conduct but for what has already transpired.

Arabs in this country are sometimes being judged based upon the actions of others. That’s a totally different scenario.

Sex predators are judged for THEIR OWN ACTIONS.

That’s what is known as consequences NOT prejudice.

GA @Buttonstc.

@Buttonstc The word prejudice means to pre-judge someone based upon assumptions
In many cases there is a pre-judging, even if people want to believe there is not. In this case the pre-judging may not come until after the fact, but it is still there.

Those who unlawfully subject children to sexual activity are not being PRE-judged. The judgement is based upon conviction in a court of law and subsequent classification as a sexual predator.
You have validated the point, the act is what it is, it is determined by the society one lives in to be lawful of not. How one defines it is the pre-judgment. Merriam-Webster says this:

pred•a•tor
noun \ˈpre-də-tər, -ˌtȯr\
: an animal that lives by killing and eating other animals.
: an animal that preys on other animals
: a person who looks for other people in order to use, control, or harm them in some way

If a college jock has sex with a high school sophomore he sure has no plans to kill and eat her. Unless there is evidence to the contrary he has no plan to control her, unless him talking her into something (if she did not pursue him) constitute the level of absolute control, or to the point it was long-lasting, and systemic, not just some fling at a frat party. But as you pointed out the law pre-judges him as someone out to do harm (I guess to all or most females classified as a minor) to be labeled a predator. Who is to know the lass he rolled in the hay with would be the only one, his desire was not for any female classified as a minor simply because they were, to do so shy of a clinical diagnoses of pedophilia, is pre-judging; unless you have something that can refute that?

So how is that pre-judging them? Theyve been judged in a court of law not for their imaginary or future conduct but for what has already transpired.
I understand, they are social pariahs and it is quite easy to disconnect any prejudice against them because of the visceral reaction they cause in most people. If one is to believe they meet the classical definition of predator, that they will seek to attack, or control some female classified as a minor just because she is, they don’t need to know her, they do not have to have any emotions for her. If she falls for him, and he for her, the law will classify him as a predator because that h\is how the government wants to classify the crime for punishment sake, but is he really a predator because his gf whom he feels he loves was classified as underage?

There are laws prohibiting people from driving and using their cell phones. The law makes no distinction that some drivers can multitask well enough to use their cell phones and still be highly attentive to their driving. To make a blanket law is to be pre-judging that anyone using a cell phone driving is diminished, that is a judgment made by government or the will of the voters, but that doesn’t mean it is true and every driver is incapable of driving with their cell phone in hand. Judgments are made of people, situations and things all of the time, some situations or people just get more of it.

In the neighborhood I use to live in, there was a corner liquor store, which was run by people who were mostly from Yemen with a few Kuwaitis. After 9–11 happened they were getting a lot of flax even from people who used the location for years, because they were thought to be of the same nation as the skyjackers, Iranians, or Iraqi. People were upset and wanted to unload on someone to make them pay for bringing down The Towers. All that was really known was that it was people from the Middle East, so insulting, and vandalizing property of anyone that was Middle Eastern was a way, in their mind, to even the score. What something is said to be, and what it really is on occasion are different.

@Buttonstc You need to learn that @Hypocrisy_Central has repeatedly expressed the opinion that an adult having sex with a consenting sexually mature yet underage person is okay.

@zenvelo You need to learn that @Hypocrisy_Central has repeatedly expressed the opinion that an adult having sex with a consenting sexually mature yet underage person is okay.
Seeing you have selective memory, I do not want to erroneously believe you are coming down with Alzheimer, let me refresh your memory less you be unwittingly telling lies, the sex I advocate is one man with one woman who are married. You have no defense to the sexual hypocrisy that goes on so you have to try to subterfuge the real issue. You do have it straight now, I hope.